Which Bible Do You Like?

Religion
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The problem is that if you actually read the Bible, God is an inconsistent jerk who looks awfully like us humans.

But if you pick only the verses you like to describe God, then he looks like a great guy.

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Let’s talk about Elbert Hubbard. He said: Everyone should have a college education to show them how little the thing is really worth.

I view the Bible much the same way.

I know God, love Him and serve Him, and am delighted to do so. I find the Bible fascinating, and the little that is there that relates to my own life is, in fact, worth its weight in gold. The story of Noah’s Ark is fascinating, but is worth nothing in my own life. It is simply a very good story and enlightening on how early man viewed God and himself. What does early man have to do with the way I view God or view myself and others who live today?

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They weren’t “dropped after Christ”.

They
were
never
in
the
Hebrew
Bible.

Never.

They came in from Greek sources in the decades before Christ.

I have a great sense of humor, but when I say I am presenting facts and data, i’m actually doing it.

I get it
you believe the Catholics preserved the traditions and the writings better than anyone. You’re free to believe that.

You’re not free to make up things to try and bolster that belief without getting called on it.

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Sure, but when the Bible is actually studied, and when one what finds wise and true–and acts on it–life changes in small ways that do add up. Keep in mind the word Bible is based on the word for “Library”. A library has many sections, and so does the Bible. There are many sections in both I seldom visit.

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I keep saying Canon.

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That’s funny. What happened to making posts personal?

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Wait. But you said you arent a scholar. Wait, but you said you have decades of research experience. Wait, you just said you only pick up trivia along the way. Why again should we take your assertions about the Bible at face value?

Still waiting for those sources about Noah


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You shouldn’t. No one should. Never occurred to me they were, so everyone just stop if that is what you are doing. I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m just cheerfully nattering. As I said earlier, I don’t take any of it seriously. It’s merely something fun to do.

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If you don’t take anything you say seriously, why should anyone else?

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Well we finally agree on something :wink:

Me on the other hand. I am a stable genius.

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So it seems you are a cafeteria Christian. That’s fine by me. Take what has meaning and ignore or rationalize the rest. But you really are just creating your own personal deity at this point.

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Not at all. What part of Christianity do you see me overlooking or throwing away?

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When I was in my early twenties I was shocked–shocked, I say–to discover not everything in the Bible is about me and my life. In fact, very little of it is. Further, I was aghast that God hadn’t made all of His people cookie cutter stamps of each other, but had settled for the merely unique.

I got stuck with the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, Love one another, and obedience to God and His ways. No annihilating the Amalekites for me, no burning bush, and no giving up my first born son to the priesthood. Talk about let down.

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since this shouldn’t be taken seriously, should it be taken literally?

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Don’t need to. Had the good fortune of meeting up with the real deal.

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So you are fond of saying


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I seldom do. The only things that should be taken seriously is stuff like fairy gardens, fairy tales, and mermaids. I’m serious for days when I am re-reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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so 192 posts in and your participation amounts to “just kidding?” ok.

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I went one step further. Except I wasnt shocked to discover that the Bible doesnt describe the real “God” in any form.

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That what they said about Noah