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Hi from Spain :)

Left Coast

Left Coast

This Is Water
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ghostofachance said:
Hey, I'm new on this forum. I'm from Spain and I'm currently studying from home the Bible. I'm a Christian Orthodox and I have been religious since I was little. I think I'm the most religious person in my family, my parents believe in God but they don't read the Bible nor go to the Church or anything. They are very open minded. The friends I have are very open minded too, but only one is actually religious and is interested in theology. Others are not, we're "young", we're all around 30, so they respect my interest in religion but I feel super lonely because I have no one to discuss with my studies, stuff that I have read or heard... So I couldn't find any forums on theology in Spain and this is the one that popped up when I searched in Google.

I guess I made this on hope to find young people that are interested in discussing the Bible and religion in general. I'd love to read the Quran and the Torah when I finish the Bible. Also, after finishing Exodus I found myself listening to the Jordan Peterson's series on it on Youtube with Dr. Os Guiness, Dr. Douglas Hedley, Dr. James Orr, Dr. Larry Arnn, Gregg Hurwitz, Ben Shapiro, Dr. Dennis Prager, Dr. Stephen Blackwood, Jonathan Pageau.

Sorry for my English, not my first language.
Have a nice day :)

Karina
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Welcome! Orthodox in Spain? I'm surprised, are you originally from Spain?
 
Rachel Rugelach

Rachel Rugelach

Shalom, y'all.
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Welcome @ghostofachance!

I don't know whether you might find this interesting but, in modern Hebrew, your name Karina (קרינה) is a word that means "radiation." So I'm picturing you with a glowing personality and a lot of high energy! :cool:

Sorry! (*sheepish grin*) Let me make it up to you with some strawberry-pecan rugelach:

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Heyo

Heyo

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ghostofachance said:
Hey, I'm new on this forum. I'm from Spain and I'm currently studying from home the Bible. I'm a Christian Orthodox and I have been religious since I was little. I think I'm the most religious person in my family, my parents believe in God but they don't read the Bible nor go to the Church or anything. They are very open minded. The friends I have are very open minded too, but only one is actually religious and is interested in theology. Others are not, we're "young", we're all around 30, so they respect my interest in religion but I feel super lonely because I have no one to discuss with my studies, stuff that I have read or heard... So I couldn't find any forums on theology in Spain and this is the one that popped up when I searched in Google.

I guess I made this on hope to find young people that are interested in discussing the Bible and religion in general. I'd love to read the Quran and the Torah when I finish the Bible. Also, after finishing Exodus I found myself listening to the Jordan Peterson's series on it on Youtube with Dr. Os Guiness, Dr. Douglas Hedley, Dr. James Orr, Dr. Larry Arnn, Gregg Hurwitz, Ben Shapiro, Dr. Dennis Prager, Dr. Stephen Blackwood, Jonathan Pageau.

Sorry for my English, not my first language.
Have a nice day :)

Karina
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Welcome to RF.
I'm not sure but I think you are the first person here who joins from Spain.
As @Windwalker pointed out, many people here are atheists or other unbelievers. If you want to have meaningful discussions about your bible studies, you may want to get on a relevant DIR.
 
ghostofachance

ghostofachance

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Heyo said:
Welcome to RF.
I'm not sure but I think you are the first person here who joins from Spain.
As @Windwalker pointed out, many people here are atheists or other unbelievers. If you want to have meaningful discussions about your bible studies, you may want to get on a relevant DIR.
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Oh, wow. Wouldn't have thought that most people in a religious forum would be atheists haha, good to know! But maybe still have read the Bible and have an opinion on different passages?
 
Windwalker

Windwalker

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ghostofachance said:
Thats so interesting that most of the people here are atheists!
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I don't know that most people on RF are atheists. I think it's a good mix. There are plenty that are part of other religions as well. I meant, somewhat tongue in cheek that among the "bible experts" you'll find that a sizeable portion of those are atheists. That's due in no small part to them having left the faith, and either learned more about the Bible trying to understand why it didn't work for them, or that they read and studied it in earnest, and upon learning more about it found flaws with it and left it. There are those of course who learn it to understand those who abuse it and trying to force their religious views upon them. So their knowledge of it can the result of a matter of self-defense as well.

You also have former atheists here, as well as former Christians who take on other religions, or are more eclectic. For the most part, folks around here have a good amount of knowledge of the Bible, from conservative fundamentalist readings of it, to more modernist progressive and liberal views. It's really a great smorgasbord to choose from around here. Everyone gets to express their views, without religious censorship around here. That's what makes this site a cut above, IMO. :)
 
ghostofachance

ghostofachance

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Windwalker said:
I don't know that most people on RF are atheists. I think it's a good mix. There are plenty that are part of other religions as well. I meant, somewhat tongue in cheek that among the "bible experts" you'll find that a sizeable portion of those are atheists. That's due in no small part to them having left the faith, and either learned more about the Bible trying to understand why it didn't work for them, or that they read and studied it in earnest, and upon learning more about it found flaws with it and left it. There are those of course who learn it to understand those who abuse it and trying to force their religious views upon them. So their knowledge of it can the result of a matter of self-defense as well.

You also have former atheists here, as well as former Christians who take on other religions, or are more eclectic. For the most part, folks around here have a good amount of knowledge of the Bible, from conservative fundamentalist readings of it, to more modernist progressive and liberal views. It's really a great smorgasbord to choose from around here. Everyone gets to express their views, without religious censorship around here. That's what makes this site a cut above, IMO. :)
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One of the things the Bible teaches us about is the way in which perceptions and actions can be prioritized. In life, we always end up prioritizing some things over others. Carl Jung said that whatever is on the top of your triangle of priorities above all other things is your God. Whether you are religious or not. And that if you have a lot of things there then you are confused.

My mom taught me to pray and taught me about God since I was little and found praying and believing quiet natural. I became an atheist when I was 15 while reading Anna Karenina and had the same existencial crisis Levin had. Came back to God myself in a couple of years and never left. It just makes so much sense for me, makes me happy, fills me with calm and peace. Couldn't imagine making sense of life and humanity without Him.

Also, I separate the Bible and the religious Institutions from God. I think, one thing is my faith and what I believe in and another is the Church and what it imposes on the believers. I enjoy going to Church and meditating, but I think that I have never spoken to a priest, nor reading the sacred texts has ever made me question my faith.

I guess that I don't have any proof that He exists, but the alternative is too sad and meaningless. Reading the Bible one may wonder, is there something more than different types of tyranny? What is the alternative? Spiritual freedom? How can we know if anything we study or learn is not another type of ideology? Postmodernists insist that everything is tyranny and that we have an illusion of freedom where we simply choose the one that pleases us most. But they seem to lack transcendental orientation. When reading the Bible one realizes that they are wrong. And, in my opinion, I always found it a very sad vision of life...
 
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