Hi! I’ve been studying Judaism and Christianity and other systems of fath out of interest and there are many things I like, agree with, but there are also things I don’t accept or have no idea what to think. I have many many questions.
One thought I have is different approaches to Scripture. There are many different opinions.
But overall question to me, a book is graphic representation of human language. Even if my brother tells me something, we can spend the whole day fighting if I misunderstood something LOL Usually not, but language is far from perfect tool to pass thoughts, ideas, information.
I have really really hard time accepting that God expressed himself through book writing by people. It seems very far-fetched to me. Especially when I read any kind of Scripture and it is in my opinion full of all kinds of imperfections and possibility for endless interpretations. I see a Scripture as people describing their ideas or opinions of events or otherworldly reality. To me, a book cannot be God tool in a direct sense. It could have some sparks of truth or of God information, but can’t be accepted as the only or preferred or ideal source. It just does not make any sense to me.
Especially ancient books that are so far from us in culture, language, mentality, ideas of morality, everything.
So to me, one should certainly study Scripture and draw interesting or beneficial ideas, but to treat it as a universal authority on complete worldview for this life and other dimensions to me is quite strange. As if to ask a group of children draw some pictures and then establish that only what they drew is everything that you should know about life and God. Maybe not the best analogy, but it’s kind of how I see it.
How can you accept it?
Sorry, I hope I was clear in my question.
One thought I have is different approaches to Scripture. There are many different opinions.
But overall question to me, a book is graphic representation of human language. Even if my brother tells me something, we can spend the whole day fighting if I misunderstood something LOL Usually not, but language is far from perfect tool to pass thoughts, ideas, information.
I have really really hard time accepting that God expressed himself through book writing by people. It seems very far-fetched to me. Especially when I read any kind of Scripture and it is in my opinion full of all kinds of imperfections and possibility for endless interpretations. I see a Scripture as people describing their ideas or opinions of events or otherworldly reality. To me, a book cannot be God tool in a direct sense. It could have some sparks of truth or of God information, but can’t be accepted as the only or preferred or ideal source. It just does not make any sense to me.
Especially ancient books that are so far from us in culture, language, mentality, ideas of morality, everything.
So to me, one should certainly study Scripture and draw interesting or beneficial ideas, but to treat it as a universal authority on complete worldview for this life and other dimensions to me is quite strange. As if to ask a group of children draw some pictures and then establish that only what they drew is everything that you should know about life and God. Maybe not the best analogy, but it’s kind of how I see it.
How can you accept it?
Sorry, I hope I was clear in my question.
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