Thursday, August 12, 2021

How can it be?

It really saddens me that THE BIBLE gets lumped in with every other religious propagation and then make a career out of  their passion against it.  People like Dawkins and Sagan... I know The Bible cannot be scientifically proven to be accurate.  Much of The Bible is basically The One True (allegedly) God telling His people what He thinks they should do.  Some of it is examples of people who do what He thinks they should be doing.  There's a few pages of poetry giving hope of insight into the condition of a person who wants to live as The One True (alleged) God calls mankind to live.  There's very little, if anything, in The Bible that stands alone in its sufficiency.  The Bible, as we who are Christians read it, does not have a section of cliffnotes.  The closest thing to that is Paul's letter to the churches in Rome titled ROMANS.  God didn't lay it out like that from page 1 onward, because the JOURNEY, no matter which routes we take, we're going to encounter dead ends and breakdowns.  The Bible is meant to serve as a guide to that journey.  Some days you may pick up The Bible and turn to some random spot that seems out of context.  So first it helps to read the whole thing, and if you have sucky memory, you might need to read it several times back to back, but after you've read it once or twice, generally, the whole thing applies to itself.  You can read one passage that mostly talks about a situation that doesn't necessarily apply to you in your everyday life, but one or two sentences speak directly to your heart.
Buddhism and Hindu ism or whatever it's called, and even Islam, and many other religions all have some truth to impart to those who are learning how to live, but, to my knowledge, no religious text other than The Bible really addresses all facets of life.  Our relationships with each other, our preparation for life with God, even our relationship with animals and how we shouldn't hang too close to our feces (even though He didn't say why like "It's got germs on it!"), ya know, EVERYTHING! about HOW to live is included in The Bible.
I guess there's no point in saying much else.  I probably won't change anyone's mind........

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