"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.” – Hermann Hesse
2006-08-19 11:40:03 · 19 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
But if one doesn't believe in the Bible, there's only personal experience to decide what God's message is. And that leads to David Koresh, and Jim Jones--people who thought their personal understand of God was just as important as what was written down ~2000 years ago.
Most Christians can't handle the idea of leaving people free to decide for themselves what God's true message is; they believe that people need an external, verifiable source to point to.
2006-08-27 06:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by Elfwreck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That quote could be looked at as a lie and you could say that thouse that fight to create a new world inside the egg are also being born. See you could have a chicken egg and instead of hatching the chicken could just stay inside the egg go to sleep or something and then make a new egg inside its mind. This could go on forever as could the other way. Both may happen at the same time who knows. Only time will tell :)
2006-08-19 18:53:38 · answer #2 · answered by magpiesmn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is God's Word, brought forth through human authors. Human interpretation is flawed. Authors have changed and altered the Word over the years to suit the times and hierarchy. So when reading the Bible, take a look at the "big picture" of what God is trying to say through Scripture. Thus to follow the Words of Scripture, you are following the Will of God.
2006-08-27 17:42:02 · answer #3 · answered by Jerzey Daze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to expand the question. "Are you putting more faith in God, in the Bible's forty-four authors or in the officials of the Roman Catholic Church that decided which gospels to include in the anthology we call the Bible?" Or perhaps we should include the scribes who added their own rewordings, story additions and deletions.
There are some wonderful stories in the Bible, but there is also a lot of bigoted, outdated junk.
2006-08-27 12:55:56 · answer #4 · answered by Magic One 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe God.
Look carefully at what I wrote. The word missing is "in."
The Bible, being a physical object I can pitch in the trash, is not the focus of my Faith. God is my Focus.
God so loved the World that She gave His only Son...and the World misunderstands him still.
2006-08-19 18:50:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knows how to preserve the Bible. He did use the disciples to write it down. Did you notice it is still the best selling book in the world after thousands of years??
2006-08-27 18:26:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is the word of God so we are still putting our faith in God
2006-08-19 18:46:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
for most Christians
their faith came from the bible
but the bible tells them about God so it is quite the same to me
2006-08-26 14:36:41 · answer #8 · answered by x040493t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is God Inspired/God breathed...so the faith is in God.
2006-08-26 06:14:19 · answer #9 · answered by justthinkin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Youll drive yourself mad thinking about questions like this. Dont waste your time. Youre young with everything to live for, enjoy your life and dont worry about biblical things.
2006-08-27 16:38:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋