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gomedome -- so true
doesn't matter where or what religion or version of that religion -- what people are taught is what they believe, no matter how ludicrous the beliefs seem.
once people were told the moon was made of green cheese.
how many, I wonder, went to their graves believing that?
i don't know -- maybe everybody knew it wasn't so -- I don't know -- maybe i believed it once as a child.
still -- the point is -- people are like sheep -- they go wherever the "shepherd" takes them -- even to the slaughter, without so much as a bleat.
posted by
Xeno-x
on March 8, 2007 at 3:32 PM
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k-g-swee -- thank you for posting
we have to understand that all knowledge is incomplete. the ultimate and infinite -- ?
knowledge is ever growing, thus its incompleteness.
posted by
Xeno-x
on March 8, 2007 at 2:53 PM
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Faith is always the Key to the WORD.
posted by
1TimeSoldier
on March 8, 2007 at 12:16 PM
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Xeno-x - most of the people alive today have no idea where their beliefs
actually came from.
They only regurgitate what they have heard in church and either do not know that they have had a steady diet of "sheltered" truths, or they simply do not care. Centuries ago; Christianity decided that Yeshua was the son of God while Judaism had decided that he was merely a man. How can this be news to people in the year 2007 ???? . . . but incredibly it is.
posted by
gomedome
on March 7, 2007 at 6:16 PM
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the truth is within you
books are but a road sign on the path to infinite wisdom and pending graduation.
live not in past transgretions but in the knowledge that you are god and god is you.
posted by
k-g-swee
on March 7, 2007 at 3:23 PM
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Umm, well, the Jews also didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah...
posted by
Ariala
on March 7, 2007 at 2:46 PM
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Xeno-x,
Not all Christians believe in the Bible literally. Catholics see it from context and perspective. One has to study the culture and people of the time that each part of the Bible was written and understand who, specifically, each section of it was written to. It must be taken in context. Also, much of the Bible is poetry and stories which were passed down for years. The authors of the Bible were inspired by God to write it and God let them write it in their own styles, He didn't dictate it to them.
This was a good, thought-provoking post.
posted by
RAME
on March 7, 2007 at 2:28 PM
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