My "Issues" with Religion, Spirituality, God, Theology, Lord Jesus Christ, Apostles, the Holy Bible, Beliefs etc.

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The relativity of 'truth.' That's the summary ... a lot of this is 'my train-of-thought,' so it would be good of you to read all of this before you respond. I start with the fact that we aren't always thinking of 'the same thing' when we think about ourselves ... To explain what I mean---"What am I?" Right now, I would say that I'm a complex formation of clay, typing observations/imaginings into this computer. Other times, I say that I'm 'most of the text I've submitted to the Internet.' Other times, I would say that I'm 'an electric spirit exclusively inhabiting this complex clay-formation.' That comes up because when Christians-etc. say "Lord Jesus Christ saved me," it doesn't seem 'true'; because ... What did He do to save which 'you' from what? I know the standard Christian answers ... they're mostly just "noise" to distract you from the fact that 'the tree isn't there!' ("Tree" and 'other things that are sturdy & steadfast like wooden-branches' make up the root of the word "True" ... the idea being--I suppose--that true truth is its own witness.) The 'noise' says "He died in my place (having no sin, He paid the price as if He HAD sin; so that none of us who DO have sin "owe" what The Bible calls "the wages of sin")" ... answering the 'what' as "sin (the guilt)." I guess that implies it's talking about 'the electric spirit'-me there---that this clay-form is sort of a "confounded machine" that doesn't run 'properly' unless it does a few things that aren't very conducive and -that are sometimes a little destructive to other machines and -to their products. That brings us to 'the definition of "sin."' Many people think it's something like 'intentional evil.' And that's partly right, as 'choosing the wrong target' means that you "miss the mark" (the true definition of sin). So saying that "Jesus washes your sin away" may not mean He 'erases your record' so much as He 'clears your mind of any pre-conceived notions you may have of "what your target is."' And I feel that anyone who presents 'part of the truth' (without revealing that there's more to it) is "bearing false witness"---like The Serpent in the Garden of Eden did when he told Eve that the Forbidden Fruit would make her "like God" ... it DID make her like God in 'the knowledge of good & evil,' but it MOSTLY revealed how these clay-forms we quicken are NOT God-like!