This is Bhakti

devotional worship

saying that because you dont know what perfect is that you shouldnt try is stupid

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no human knows what the perfect life is but most of us try to improve daily

it's clearly not squalor

you're incapable of purifying yourself in this life

but nor is it wealth

the idea of worshipping anything makes me feel uneasy

that's pride

*feel

only through God's grace are we even capable of freely choosing to follow Him

unless you're a stink calvinist

This is why I believe Christ was divine. He teaches you this, even within the malevolent auspices of the jewish theology predating his.

in which case you can't freely choose at all

probably due to how your life has been so far

pride?

in what

I dont have much to be proud of in my life

that you can rely on yourself better than the being you would worship

He does through His Church

the Church has the authority to bind or loose sins

but original sin is constant

until after the Resurrection you will be stained by it

what's the point of a test if the teacher passes you in the middle of it and gives you the reward before it's over

@agag The 3 threads of nature are: sattvic, rajasic, tamasic. The state of purity/goodness, passion, ignorance/evil.

no, no man can live a sinful life

even after becoming faithful

im not saying im better than anyone, i'm just saying the thought of worshipping something, anything at all, seems like a scary thought to me

To understand natural law is to understand how these interplay.

we are all corrupt

reverence of an unchanging ideal is the core of faith

I have aspergers, and part of that comes with an intense feeling of not wanting to feel like im being controlled

so

worship seems scary to me

really? Do you think that after you become faithful you'll never look on a woman with lust? Or commit any other sort of sin?

i dont get aspergers

@agag Your OT Yahweh is characterized by passion and at times viciousness. But Jesus Christ never acts out of passion. Only once really in the temple where he whips money changers, but that was entirely just.

you can't live a sinful life in this world

no man is capable of it

my brother in law supposedly has it but all the symptoms seem to stem from a lack of understanding of certain things