AboutLaurie Hamilton Expertise I am able to answer questions regarding Scientology practices and procedures, belief system, donations, religious rites, management, administrative and staff matters.
Experience I am a second generation Scientologist whose parents began in Dianetics in 1950 and studied directly with L. Ron Hubbard. I have been personally active in the church for 40 years, have eleven years former staff experience in both technical and administrative areas, and extensive technical and administative training and counseling. I am "clear" and "OT." I come from an extended family of many religions, but my spouse and children are Scientologists, as are my siblings and their spouses, several cousins, nieces, nephews, an aunt, and an uncle. Between us we have had every good and bad experience one might go through in the church at every level.
Expert: Laurie Hamilton Date: 6/10/2008 Subject: Overt and withhold.
Question Dear Laurie,
I wonder that if some of the teachings or words are a substitutes or the idea taken from the bible?
eg. Overt is seems or sound like sin
withhold means similar with un repant.
"Your iniquities [wrong doings] have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you(Isaiah 59:2) And it's endless how the similarity in a princile level but only language or method or interpretation bring a huge differences between Christianity and yours religion. I believe that we too are thetans "god" or spirt
But, nee to be in harmony with the supreme being or God or the last dynamics? of course, start from self or 1st dynamice and all way up to the top. what do you think?
Answer Uhhmmm, no.
Both Scientology and the bible draw on ideas which are several thousand years older than either of them:
survive/succumb
good/evil
enlightenment/darkness (spiritual)
spirituality/materiality
an ultimate spiritual being and/or truth
virtue is valuable
corrupt behavior (sin, overt, transgression, harm) is of negative value
Scientology and dogmatic religion approach these same concepts from diametrically opposite directions, however.
Sin is sin "because god (or the church/religious authorities) said so."
or
An overt is an over because it harms more than it helps.
"Live by the rules and go to heaven."
or
Find yourself and be free.
Of course, since all religion addresses the subjects of good and evil, right behavior versus wrong behavior, all religions will have similarities.
