I am able to use my higher cognitive functions to decipher truth and reality. What I know is that the written word has much deep power left, no matter the history. Otherwise it could not be seen or felt by the people who see or feel it who are alive presently. I am not speaking of false prophets, not charlatains after money and power. I am speaking of the quiet in the mind, when in prayer, or reading and how it feels between one's self and God in one's heart.
Something is affecting you in regards to peoples belief or faith, in my opinion which may be fine for you to believe, but when you seem to say that I may be deluded, I must beg to disagree. You have your own belief system, and I have my own. The difference being I have not come out and called you deluded, enslaved or even on your way to hell :) How would I know? I am not travelling your path.
I have my own beliefs, and I am not sure why you seem to be assuming you know what my sacred cows are.
You seem to despise anything to do with faith. If I am mistaken, I apologize, but you really seem to have a frustration with anything faith based. It colors your words, and makes it difficult to trust that you are balanced in your heart and that I should take what you are saying as a wise person. Balanced whole people do not have this shadow, or slant inside them. What comes out in your words is deep contempt.
I am sorry you feel that way.
Bonnie
: The best falsehoods are mostly made up of some truth, spun to
: decieve.
: Religions have helped individuals but they've mainly enslaved
: otherwise good people into doing nothing against evil
: because their supposed holy men say it's "God's
: Will".
: The Bible is like excavating some city that's been in
: existence for thousands of years... you got Genesis which
: is a editing of many older creation texts, meant to give
: credence to the Hebrew Exodus era accounts.
: Then you have such later texts like Deuteronomy which build
: upon the authority of the pentatuch to further lay down
: laws that domesticate man. So to speak-I find it too big a
: leap of logic to associate Jehovah with Jesus. Jehovah
: didn't heal too many sick or forgave much, and Jesus sure
: didn't need weird contraptions that seem like ancient
: accounts of UFO's. Or commit mass murder.
: Then you have the Gospels... if Christianity is about Christ
: Jesus why didn't they keep more of what he said in the
: Bible? Why these third and fourth hand retellings and not
: stuff Jesus might have wrote or told someone directly?
: Which leads to Saul-a murderous, lying, unrepenting pharisee
: who's televangelist-like skill hijacked what Jesus tried to
: achieve and flip it 180 degrees.
: And finally, the Roman Emperor Constantine... presiding over a
: crumbling empire he needed a new doctrine to unite the
: peoples into a obedient mass. So he convened a council in
: 326 AD, and stitched together the 66(that's a satanic
: number, hint, hint)books into the Holy Bible...
: Have I mentioned how the original words in their original
: language and context lose their meaning with translation,
: time, and changing culture?
: And how, if possible the King James Authorized Version could
: be accurate? Or even a accurate expression of our Father? I
: mean, King James, a pervert, a bloodline illuminati,
: presiding over a brutal, rising European empire.
: So yes, there's Truth in the Bible but you have to understand
: the fuller context, and where what you get your inspiration
: from came from originally.
: Only by a honest, hard look at our most sacred cows will we
: discover how deluded we are, and find the keys to our
: Freedom.
: J. Croft
