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Religions > Bible |
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"Andrew W" |
| Date: |
28 Jul 2007 08:18:47 PM |
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All scripture is... |
Christians often proudly quote the Bible verse All scripture is inspired by
God.
That's a big sweeping statement, and very divisive since Christians insist
that only *their* Bible contains scripture.
The question is, is everything in the Bible scripture? What exactly is
scripture?
People thousands of years ago wrote pious stories. We know this. Stories
were a big thing back then and still are.
Obviously much of what was written would have been from people's own
minds, not God.
And people get some crazy ideas when they get in the swing
of things religiously. Human imagination has no bounds.
So realistically how much of the Bible is God's word? And what about all the
writings that are not in the Christian Bible?
Also, much of the Bible was not yet in existence when that
verse was given. That verse refers to the Old Testament.
But more importantly, are we so sure that the verse itself was uttered by
God himself?
No one rightly knows so the whole thing is really up in the air.
These are the mature and sober questions Christians should be asking but are
not.
When you think about it, virtually the whole of the Christian doctrine's
foundations rests on that one verse. If you take that verse away then all of
the Bible is in question. It is the force behind the concept that the Bible
is "God's Word".
That this verse came out of God's mouth is taken purely on faith like
everything else.
Has faith gone too far in Christianity? Should faith have limits? It must.
When you think about it, it is really only fundamentalist beliefs stemming
from pious passions and human insecurities that keeps the whole thing going.
Christians claim that if one is in(?) the Holy Spirit then this ensures that
one only hears God's words.
Yet this is just another bold faith-on-top-of-faith statement, because
remember all those TV evangelists? And remember all those crazies who
carried out those mass suicides? They also all firmly believed that they
were in the Holy Spirit.
There is clearly no form, standard structure or certainty here. Just wild
beliefs assembled from out of context and hardly understood Bible verses
professed and practised in God's name.
Where is God to acknowledge or rebuke all these headless chickens? Nowhere.
Does he care? Maybe he's left it all to us.
Now that would be true free will, but that would also mean that its the
lunatics who have been running the asylum all these centuries.
Somehow I don't think most Christians will be strong enough to face this
possibility, but the evidence sure does point to it.
--
Andrew W.
Jesus said that we must search everywhere for the truth, that we must leave
no stone unturned.
How naive and foolish is the man who thinks he can get all the answers to
life from one convenient book. ~me
What we are told God and Jesus said, they did not say.
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/Mission.htm
TABLE OF CONTENTS. Must read!
http://www.divinelove.org/revnt/Rev-TOC-title.htm
The true Creator wants us to be happy and abundant.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Getting_Rich
Audio version. http://website.lineone.net/~cornerstone/richaudio.htm
Think you know what ego is? Think again. The Bible is full of it!
http://www.acim.org/
Religion Exposed!
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ajwerner
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