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Agree 101%I've read the Bible from cover to cover. It is beautiful...as long as I cherry pick its meaning. When I keep it in mind as a complete work, it has some very ugly parts and aspects.
That is where you go wrong. Thinking is your only source of self-correction. People who don't think are locked in whatever subconsciously calculated views they may have picked up over the years.
And Cult 101 teaches that one must get the followers to doubt their thoughts, otherwise the doctrine may be doubted. It's a way of locking people in place.
eudaimonia,
Mark
No, that is not what I meant.Were the OT and NT written before or after the Tower of Babel?
It was purposely riddled to make it easy, to decide what was wheat and chaff. Which is why today we don't do what Yishai Schlissel, did yesterday as he followed god's law. While Israel arrested him, it continues to kick Palestinians out of their home land, claiming god gave it to them.
The problem is the cherry picking and interpreting people do today and claim they're real Christians. Jesus was adamant, he hadn't come to do away with the old laws. Yet people have found convenient bits to do away with them and Yishai Schlissel was arrested for trying to stick to those old laws. And before you claim the New Covenant. When did Jesus say that included going back on his previous statement of keeping the old laws?
When I figure that out, I might get on the right path through the jungle of misinterpretations.
Please read my comment #983 for an explanation.I've read the Bible from cover to cover. It is beautiful...as long as I cherry pick its meaning. When I keep it in mind as a complete work, it has some very ugly parts and aspects.
That is where you go wrong. Thinking is your only source of self-correction. People who don't think are locked in whatever subconsciously calculated views they may have picked up over the years.
And Cult 101 teaches that one must get the followers to doubt their thoughts, otherwise the doctrine may be doubted. It's a way of locking people in place.
eudaimonia,
Mark
Spiritual people rarely read scripture, only the religious studiers are.
I scan it rarely., been years.
your questions will remain questions until you seek yourself.
and even if you seek you are nor ready for the meat.
you have to be hungry and you are not.
you are just looking to find fault.
good luck
You really are making little sense.
Whenever a human reads anything, there is personal interpretation involved and there is no way around that.
How would you know what I am ready for or not ready for?
I know without a shadow of any doubt whatsoever.
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And when you say hungry, that is a good point. Some people are hungry (have a psychological need) to believe certain things, other people are hungry (have a psychological need) to best understand what is most likely true.
Of the two examples above, they tend to go about satisfying their hunger, in different ways.
I used to have a magic 8 ball too.
It really comes down to common sense after reading your posts, it is easy to see.
Same with this path, it is all common sense. Why do you make it so hard?
God speaks to us of anger, resentment, etc. because our natures have been corrupted by people places and things and God is trying to renew our minds in order to help us grow , to make us emotionally and physically balanced no ups and downs.
The mind can keep us well and God does that for us.
You are a nice person but I wish you understood.
There are many benefits in renewing our minds from within.
insights, revelations even miracles.
No religion needed, that is a trap.
Those that fail to question themselves are sheep. that is the biggest problem in society.Agree 101%
Those who don't question are sheep and we were not made to be sheep.
And when you say hungry, that is a good point. Some people are hungry (have a psychological need) to believe certain things, other people are hungry (have a psychological need) to best understand what is most likely true.
This is also a good point and I'll expand on it. Some have a psychological need to self affirm their own beliefs even if their own beliefs do not represent truth. This false self affirmation is exactly what keeps a person from realizing the actual truth.
I make it my personal goal to seek out truth, wherever truth can be found. I never want to fall into the delusion of false self affirmation, meaning I put my own beliefs above what is actually true. Truth wins, what I use to think/believe about truth loses.
The only way to get to absolute truth, is to ask honest questions both outwardly and inwardly and always be ready to admit when you're wrong, otherwise its all to easy to fall into the delusion of false self affirmation.
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