"The Greeks have given us one of the most beautiful words of our language: enthusiasm. The word enthusiasm translates to “a God within.” Within you is an infinite passionate soul that wishes to express itself. It’s the God within you, urging you to fulfill a deep sense of what you were meant to be. All of our acts are measured by the inspiration from which they originate. When your acts spring from your enthusiasm, from the God within you, you’ll feel the passion you were intended to feel and live.
The beauty of feeling passionate and enthusiastic is the glorious feeling of joy and cheerfulness that comes along with it. Nothing provides me with more joy than sitting here and writing to you from my heart. If you want to feel great, look into the mirror, say to your image, I am eternal; this image will fade, but I am infinite. I am here temporarily for a reason. I will be passionate about all that I do."
— Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
MY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY *NOTE THE DIFFERENCE
Babies are born responsible enough
to babyshit themselves
They need no teaching or moral support
They are fully prepared, qualified and natural...baby-shitters
I feel there are a number of things regarding the Christian faith that should be addressed because they are very significant and I have NEVER heard anyone address these matters in any Christian debates:
1) The Jews had every opportunity to create official Jewish accounts of the life of Jesus that would refute the New Testament accounts of Jesus' life and crucifixion. When they saw that Christianity was really starting to grab hold of the Jewish populace it would have been their moral obligation to create THEIR OWN versions of what actually happened regarding the life of Jesus if what actually happened was in opposition to the stories being circulated about Jesus and His life. To my knowledge, no such official "gospel" accounts are among the Jews. If there were I feel certain I would have heard of them by now.
2) The fact that time was restarted, in the world, in accordance with the birth of Jesus is very significant. The year is now 2014 years after Jesus came into the world. That says much indeed about the importance those who restarted time felt about the significance of the life of Jesus. BC being Before Christ. They had their chance and never did such a thing for the Buddha, or Krishna, or Mohammed, or anyone else. At least not to my knowledge. When you think about it, that is very convincing evidence that Jesus did indeed rise from the dead; which is the very basis of all true Christian faith
3) If the Apostles of Jesus were lying about Him in order to gain fame and fortune for themselves I hardly think they would have endured horribly torturous deaths in the defense of a lie. The Apostle Paul was apparently intelligent and talented enough to choose a safer profession than spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ among hostile pagans. Paul, apparently, wrote a number of his famous letters to the churches while in prison because of his preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Why bother preaching such a Gospel? For the sake of financial profit? I don't think that is what motivated Paul or the other Apostles to suffer horrible deaths rather than openly admit that they were lying about Jesus all along
The same holds true for all the early Christians who suffered horribly torturous deaths rather than recant and renounce their faith. Some obviously supernatural force gave those early Christians the courage to die horrible deaths and, with their blood, water the budding religion of Christianity into becoming such a powerful force in the world that time was restarted in honor of the greatness of Jesus Christ