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I think that spirituality has ever existed, because it is a state of mind, consciousness, each individual is differently tuned to the world, some people walked in the Spirit before the advent of Christ, in Bible also said that not Christians yet before the Advent 2000y.ago will also be saved because they were walking in the Spirit.
I think Christ and then his disciples made people to realize about the Spirit, spirituality, what is inner state of human
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jacobusmaximus wrote:Thanks Ray.
I am trying to make the point that there is the spirituality of humanity and the Spirituality of the Christian. The first has been part of man since the beginning. The second since the Resurrection of Christ. It is supernatural, and is the only spirituality worth talking about. Perhaps in your opinion, but that underlined portion is incredibly arrogant, and inconsistent with the walk of a disciple, at the very least attempting to push such a view in this thread, seems to me would be equivalent to casting pearls before swine.
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I'm agnostic, guess that means I don't really care about any of this -.-
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You just like typing, right?
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Ray41 wrote:I do not think that I can do justice to the correct interpretation of 'spirituality'.
I do know that you do not need religion to have spirituality.
The Australian Aborigine,[and no doubt other indigenous peoples such as the North American Indian] have a deep spiritual attachment to the environment as it features in all their culture, which is at least 40,000 years old. That certainly predates 'religion per se'.
Their beliefs go back to their 'dream-time' where their vision of how the earth was formed comes from.
It is a study within itself and if modern Europeans had embraced some of this culture, this planet would be a whole lot healthier.
I am myself, spiritual, but I no longer embrace the concept of a religious God.
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Ripen, it would be nice if you could add a comment, constructive or otherwise, to what you copy and paste, so we at least can see what 'your thoughts' on the topic are. 
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Ripen posted an interesting statement last week explaining why her/his own thoughts if any might be confusing at least for her/him-self. I can relate since I was agnostic for years until I found that agnosticism doesn't provide many answers to questions about life, the universe and all. The advantage is that they're mostly harmless. There is a certain beauty in confusion, but through christianity I found there is much more between earth and heaven than man can think of in a lifetime.
Living is doubt. Being sure is after life.
Give a man a fish you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime - Chinese proverb
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