> Do things like this as well as other “foibles” get forgiven?
I don't really have an answer for this. Do murderers and rapists get to come back for a re-do? Or do they get thrown straight into the lake of fire? Perhaps a bit of both.
This is what I got out of my trips. Your belief system defines what is waiting for you when you die. If you believe in Jesus, you will see Jesus. I believe in aliens and I believe the "bible" is just a misunderstanding. A little of "their" world interpreted by man on our world. 6 or 1/2 a dozen is the same thing. At the end of the day, the true reality is this, in my opinion. The Alpha and the Omega has always existed. The true nature of reality is it has always been there. Not our reality, thee reality outside of the big bang. That realm I experienced is the true reality. It just is what it is. Hard to comprehend when we are trapped in "time" and everything we do is governed by it. To us, there must be a beginning and an end, however, time is only an illusion.
Once you get past that and try to fathom reality has always been there, then you can accept a "god' of some sort. An intelligence. Whether or not it gets involved, I don't know. But if we are just a simulation, avatar, we are an extension of it. It permeates through us as a sentient wave of consciousness. We are god. God is having an objective view of itself through its creation of 'this' reality. We are just spirits having a human experience. You don't need to follow any scripture or religion because it's already coded into our dna. It's innate. Two rules. 1. Do no harm 2. Put someone before yourself. That's it.
On a deeper level, I believe reality is just a self-replicating, error correcting algorithm.
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