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Ciel
Thanks for your thoughts on this. It makes total sense

posted by Afzal_Sunny7 on June 25, 2006 at 10:13 PM | link to this | reply

The thing is, no matter how much anyone studies the Bible,
they are still not getting all the information available, from which to come to a conclusion about it. ( It is said that we form our conclusions when we get tired of thinking. ) And very, very few can  clearly distinguish what is actually true and what is just what someone wants you to believe is true.  Everyone I know or have ever heard declare that the Bible is absolutely true, says it because that is what they have been taught to believe.  It feels right because they have had an ecstatic or euphoric reaction to being told, and think that is the same as knowing that it is true.  They don't know that such energy surges can be manipulated in a person in any number of ways that are neither inspired or divine.  Some of them can do it to others, even, without a clue that they are doing it. 

posted by Ciel on June 25, 2006 at 12:49 AM | link to this | reply

Sunny
Thank you  so much for your response. We just see things differently. Yes I not only have read it but studied it for many years and the Hebrew and Greek to some extent. We just have a difference in our understanding of what it says. Again thank you for sharing and be blessed.

posted by Justi on June 8, 2006 at 1:20 PM | link to this | reply

Justi

About the Bible and God....

I've read it, and have myself been Christian at a time.  What makes me not able to understand why anyone would want to worship a God (as depicted in the Bible) is that the "God" is suposed to be all good and everything, true? That's fine...even though I believe in more of a balance.

But what gets to me is how the Bible depicts the treatment of women, children....condoning rape, abuse, murder, etc. And this "male" God  #1-by my beliefs is inbalanced, as everything needs to have a masculaine and feminine in order to have balance. #2 A God who is claimed to be all good is also an inbalance (in my opinion). #3 Even if it was possible for a God to be all good, the God (as depicted in the Bible) cannot possibly be seen that way if you've read everything.

I'm not saying that a "Christian" God doesn't exist, just that it would be beyond me why anyone would want to worship one as such is in the Bible.

Either way....It doesn't worry me for people to worshiop this way....only if it gets to the point where they feel it's alright to act as a way that some of these things in the Bible have. Rape, killing, abuse, treating of women and children as inferior, etc.

I believe in and value Jesus...but for his teachings, not because I believe he is the "son of God"....a whole topic I will have to go into sometime.

Blessings!
Sunny

posted by Afzal_Sunny7 on June 8, 2006 at 1:14 PM | link to this | reply

Sunny
I was intrigued with your  comment on gnome's post. I may be misquoting you but you could not see how anyone could  be serious about believing in the one God of the Bible. You said you had read it and was amazed that serious people would believe it. I have studied other religions, have a degree in psychology and am fairly intelligent as well. I believe it. Did you read the part about without the Holy Spirit you could not understand the Book. It is true. I did not until It became my book. I thank you for your frankness.

posted by Justi on June 8, 2006 at 12:58 PM | link to this | reply