Is lucid a sin?

I’ve read the NT various times, and I’ve never come across what you’re saying. :bored:

What if some monster or some maniac is after me? Shouldnt i defent myself?? And also the fact that dreamcaracthers is just images made up by your brain… And also the fact that you dont think normally during dreams, sometimes i have had dreams where i am a totally different person, different memories… I even was a little girl on 5 years or so once :open_mouth:

Though i cannot recall hurting someone without an reason… I recall one none lucid dream… where me and some other group of people was trapped inside some building, infected with some disease that made us agressive… I could feel how i lost control, and we all ended up attacking eachother :wink:
This was definitely not me :tongue:

Exactly! And this is actually what bible and christians say themself! It dosent sound to me like this so called christian God is friendly…

Found it!
I think… not exactly what I was talking about, but quite:
Romans 2:13.

"13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law,
15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)
16 This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. "

Now it’s true that the NT often seems to contradict itself when it comes to whether obeying the law or having the faith takes you to heaven, but according to this, those who have never heard of God, God’s law, or salvation through faith are under the same judgement as those who have heard it and claims they live by it.

(Gentiles: In the New Testament the Greek word Hellenes, meaning literally Greek (as in Acts 16:1,3; 18:17; Romans 1:14), generally denotes any non-Jewish nation. )

Mmm if killing a person in my dreams is a sin…is the consciousness changing of my dream scenery also a sin, because that will erase many folks in my dreams just like that…they just stop to exist lol hehe :happy:

What is a sin or is not is your own responcibility, you can only answer from your own heart…not from any book.

Jeff

Whoa, whoa tomas. Do you think you could refrain from saying my God is cruel or evil or whatever it is you said? Not all christians think that non christians are going to hell. At the very least, i know that roman catholics do not believe that (or at least the ones who know enough about their faith…). Whoever lives a good life and lives according to the truth as they know it is considered to be a “subconscious christian” and is therefore able to receive God’s gift of salvation. God doesn’t want to send people to hell…that’s His last wish in the world. He’ll do anything He can to save you, short of infringing on the free will He lovingly bestowed upon us. There may be problems if your Truth includes killing people for no particular reason, but that’s between you and God, and He’s pretty amazing.

So please, I beg of you, learn a little bit about a religion before proclaiming that their God is evil. I am not angry, just sad.

Pinkster :lmao:

Pinky wrote,

This is a free forum.

Yes, it is a free forum, and I respect that. But it would be nice if we were a bit more respectful about personal things like religion. Just a thought.

Pinkster :lmao:

You might have a point, if say someone had called you evil, that might be considered personal, but this forum is open to all forms of debate, be it religion, politics or the proper way to eat ice cream (I prefer a cone).

This brings up my major gripe with religious zealots, which is their inclination throughout history to stifle (by any means necessary) any dissenting opinion. Why is this? Is it because their belief system won’t stand up to the light of reason? I think so.

So you see, your seemingly innocuous appeal for censorship represents for me the vast and bloody history of religion’s suppression of humankind’s right to think and speak freely.

Please remember that I am not attacking you personally, just your need to remain unchallenged in your belief system. :tongue:

It was not meant as a insult, neither directed at all christians. But from what we discussed… But it does indeed sound cruel and evil to me that even a kind person is sent to hell, just because he/she have other beliefs. Its very hard for me to believe that Gandhi is supposed to be as bad as lets say Hitler… I am not saying all christians believe this, but most christians i have talked to seem to do so. :sad:

Pinky i understand your feelings but to be honest if u read all of the bible
u can c a god thats cruel and a god thats love…the choice what we think god is, the christian god as tomas speaks of, is coming from our own perspective, our own interpertation. And then there will be ppl that are not religious and think by reading the bible, or parts of the bible, god is this or god is that. In fact if there is a god he will be always the same, so this is not about god but about how we c or interpetate the bible. And thats very personal!

Jeff

Err, sorry guys. I really didn’t mean to support the “vast and bloody history of religion’s suppression of humankind’s right to think and speak freely.” Very eloquent, Firehorse. But, Really, I didn’t! And I didn’t take it as an insult tomas. I just wouldn’t feel like I was doing my duty if i let someone question the nature of someone that died to save me. (or so I believe!! I’m not trying to convince you or anyone else!!) You just have to understand that an insult against my God is an insult against me, and a thousand times worse than that too, and it is my moral duty not to sit by passively when it happens. It’s like in a movie when someone insults someone else’s mother and they get into a fistfight…the other person was just expressing himself, but still, a fight insued. But despite all that, I sincerely apologize.

I guess for the sake of harmony I should have just let it go. Peace?

Pinkster :lmao:

Not true. If God really cared about us and wanted to save us from Hell than why doesn’t he just come down onto the Earth right now and confirm to us that he exists. Can you imagine how many souls would be saved if God just showed up and said hi. And if God really is omnipotent and omniscient then he could talk to everyone on the planet one-on-one all simultaneously. If God exists then:

A. He is not all powerful and can’t help us

B. He doesn’t care about us. He cares about us as much as we care about ants

Either way, why bow to him?

Peace :tongue:

No need to let anything go though, If you feel it’s your duty to defend your God, please do! That is what the forum is all about. :alien:

Thanks, Firehorse. :smile:

As for you, Mabus, I’ve learned my lesson and I’m no longer getting involved in these discussions. I will just say politely that I disagree, and if you wish any more heated conversation, you may contact me in another way.

Pinkster :lmao:

I don’t think killing people in a dream would be a sin, but I guess it depends on your reasons for doing so. I don’t claim to understand exactly what passes as a sin (does anyone, honestly?) but I am of the opinion that sins are defined as acts that negatively affect others. If I feel better upon waking from a dream in which I killed my loud, annoying secretary, is it a sin that I’m a little happier for the duration of the following day? :tongue:

Some people are just curious, and if there was a God, I believe he would have given us the ability to lucid dream as something of a testing ground to focus our perception of real life. A training ground, if you will. Maybe even an escape from the life we have absolutely no say in.

Pinky u didnt have to apologize, you did nothing wrong, you just expressed your opinion like we all did :smile:

Greetings,
Jeff

To stop some monster attacking me once I just said ‘Come, Holy Spirit’ and it was completely disintegrated. Try using prayer to God and if it’s a person bless that person. I think you’ll see a difference.

ClarkKent thats an old trick…it works with love just as well…if u confront an evil agressive monster with love in your dreams it also will vanish.

Jeff

I wish I read this earlier :smile:
I have some thoughts on this…
Like someone said earlier, what a sin is depends on the person doing it. Remember also that not everyone uses words like sin, as they are not Christians. For the sake of my post, lets call them, ‘moral standpoints that should not be crossed because of a belief system’. Maybe thats a bit long.
Anywhooo…lucid dreaming is an engine for self improvment. Its like, a vehicle for exploaring the mind and the universe, to find out who you are and better ways to act in society, to re evaluate your views on the world, or to just have a super awesome time. Needless to say, the list is extensive. So, if you look at it that way, Lucid Dreaming cannot be a sin, unless your religion preaches that you never try to learn anything about yourself or the world, or have fun, and I don’t know any religions like that.(Except for the fun part)
So, now it falls to your actions in the lucid dream. Like I maintained before, what a sin is depends on your beliefs, or the belief systems you conform to. But, I wonder, if you cannot truely ‘sin’ in a lucid dream. Like I said, I dont like that word, but…lets say in a dream, I kill someone trying to hurt me. Thats murdur, a sin. I never actually killed anyone though, and the guy I ‘killed’ was just a creation of my mind, but there’s the rub right there; just trying to make your problems dissapear in a second isn’t a very good way to try to get through life. It would’ve been much better to try to talk my problems out, or to love my enemy, something else many religions teach.
So, after all that, here’s what I’m getting at. You cant really do any harm to anyone else, that is, ‘sin’, but you can potentially limit your growth as an intelligent being, which, if I liked the word sin, I would call a sin.
Anyway dreams are a source of knowledge an inspiration in the bible, so, what could be wrong with lucid dreaming?