Reply #306: I don't know [View All]

[Merope215]

what the "official" position is on this one, but since you asked for other ideas, my own, personally, is that there are a lot of different ways of reaching God, and not all of them have to do with Christianity, or even religion in general. I think that if you try to treat other people kindly and try sincerely to live your life in the best way you know how, you'll be rewarded, whether or not you were doing those things in order to be rewarded (which is a different subject altogether). I think God (or whatever you want to call it/him/her) is a lot smarter than we are, and good intentions are far more important than whatever system of belief or nonbelief in which you carry them out.

I go to a very, very liberal Catholic church, and although I'm pretty sure that's not the official dogma of the RCC, similar sentiments have been expressed by the priest almost every time I've been there. So those are my thoughts, but I don't really have any special authority for them.

Peace. :hi: