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Ciel - I’m not sure. I can only guess.
The Anthro reason seems to suggest that humans are hard-wired to believe in a deity or deities. But a lay thought is perhaps explained in a single word: comfort. Regardless of whatever human circumstance one is facing, there is something relatable in The Book that can be interpreted to suit each person's uniqueness and situation. The question for me is, why is that? How did that come to be? Multi-authors, multi-millennium, yet a common theme that remains is in the "feel" one Gets when reading the various versions and incarnations of its content. I think we very well may be spirits in a body seeking its Source. Unity. Purpose. Justice. Reason. Our higher selves. Our God. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on January 25, 2020 at 10:20 PM
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Re: TAPS,
King James has the most beautiful language! But his translators kept his agenda in mind. Like the business with witches. He feared and hated witches! A closer translation would say, Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live. (I am not telling you this because I think you don't know, but to show off I do!)
posted by
Ciel
on January 25, 2020 at 1:25 PM
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I grew up with The King James Version. In fact, it is all I read until I was well into my 40's when a friend gave me an NIV. I liked it and stayed with that for several years. In recent years I have been reading an NAS version which Florida Son sent me. They all have the same message but in my heart the old King James Version is "home" to me.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 25, 2020 at 11:16 AM
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Re: sassyass,
It's very interesting to look at what are called 'parallel' bibles which lay out multiple translations side by side. Amazing what small differences can make a big difference. 'Interlineal' bibles show original languages line by line beside English translation. Some give three lines, with the original language sorted out into English syntax, along with the actual original syntax of the original languages.
Another you might find interesting is called The Peshitta, and is a 20th century translation by a man whose mother was a native Aramaic speaker, and whose father was an English-speaker. So he grew up with both languages alive in his daily life. He has corrected many errors introduced by Medieval copyists who were translating languages they were not that familar with.
http://www.peshitta.org/initial/peshitta.html
posted by
Ciel
on January 25, 2020 at 10:07 AM
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Re: TAPS,
I agree! Also that there are many various cultural recognitions of that which Christianity calls the Holy Spirit.
I remember a couple of Sioux kids living in Cleveland at the time, maybe he was 9, she was a year or two older. He said something about the Holy Ghost, and she corrected him: "It's the Holy Spirit, because there's no such thing as ghosts!"
posted by
Ciel
on January 25, 2020 at 9:55 AM
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Re: Kabu,
I believe that Jesus, with that message of love, was refining the meaning of 'spirit' and especially, of spirit living in a body. In giving and receiving love in its many aspects, we are 'channeling' the Divine. In loving the Divine, we connect ourselves with it, and that is the starting place.
I believe that when we create, we are also 'channeling' the Divine. Especially when we create with love in it.
posted by
Ciel
on January 25, 2020 at 9:51 AM
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Re: RPresta,
What do you believe that reason--or reasons--might be?
posted by
Ciel
on January 25, 2020 at 9:48 AM
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Ciel
I have read it also. In spite of all arguments regarding it, there is a reason it has prevailed.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on January 24, 2020 at 7:34 PM
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What works for me...is that God created and continues to create and that Jesus came and talked to us about love.
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Kabu
on January 24, 2020 at 3:17 PM
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Very interesting post. I tried to put down here what is important to me about the Bible but it didn't turn out very clear so I erased it. As you say the Bible is a Spirit to spirit communication and it takes the Holy Spirit to give the meaning for each person. Without communication with The Spirit it is like some kind of unknown code.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 24, 2020 at 1:55 PM
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The changes in the Bible are a cause for concern for me. I believe that many different writer's have contributed their version and ideas throughout the many centuries. It is a most confusing collaberation of passages that has gone from Hebrew, Old testament, New Testament, and many places in between.
posted by
Sherri_G
on January 24, 2020 at 10:04 AM
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