Without all the garbage man has put into 'Christianity' and find a real answer to questions like:
"Why does God permit suffering?"
"What happens to us when we die?"
"What does the future hold for man?"
"Who really was Jesus, and what is he doing now?"
Would you be willing to actually sit down and learn it, if someone could show you scriptures to back EVERYTHING up? Would you be willing to set aside any frustration with the taint man has put into religion to do this, then make a real, educated decision?
2006-08-30 04:26:04 · 14 answers · asked by Epitome_inc 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sounds like you need to study with a Jehovah's Witness...
2006-08-30 04:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
Okay ... say this could happen... It would still involve man's input.
Man would be involved in orchestrating the order of the Bible texts that are used. I know we are told in Isaiah "here a little there a little, line upon line, precept upon precept etc.,
...but who would determine when it should be a line that is applied or a precept that should be applied?
The only answer is that man would put together the study.
Don't get me wrong ... I am an avid Bbile student. I do intense, indepth studies. I believe in God and I believe in the salvation that is mine through Jesus Christ.
2006-08-30 11:39:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called faith... It is called choice... It is not always the pretty happy sunshine bullsh*it that people look for now days as solutions to their every disastrous whim.
God is not a cash machine
He is not a doctor
He is not the reason why bad things happen to good people
(Who probably aren't all that good anyway.)
God is...
We are...
The bible is a historical document. Very little of it can be directly used (although it certainly is manipulated to a morons views and needs) for modern day life in anything other than reference by example. Everyone of intelligence knows this... That's why we sit back and watch the tools and morons making idiots of themselves, arguing for arguments sake and just let you all be...
You either understand or you wont. (not can't... WONT.) your choice!
Choose ye today life or death, cursing or blessing." CHOSE!
What's the problem?
2006-08-30 11:37:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be disinclined to place a lot of belief in the Bible. It is a book written and translated by humans. It has been shaped by the political situations and imperial ambitions of various rulers over the centuries. It has as its central assumption that there is an all-powerful, all-knowing deity, which assumption is not verifiable.
2006-08-30 11:42:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not going to happen. The Bible says, 2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths."
That's the end time church he's talking about.
2006-08-30 11:35:28 · answer #5 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you sat down and took the time to read the Bible and it's history, then you would soon realise that the Bible is trash.
The Bible is the biggest load of garbage and codswallop ever written by man, and I’m sure it will go down in history as the greatest load of gobbledygook ever to inflict such traumatic mental and physical damage on humanity, but still today, some people sadly believe the Bible to be true. That’s very sad indeed. Very sad.
When people quote various passages from the Bible, for example ...
Mathew 5:29-30 God encouraged self-mutilation.
Isaiah 13:15-18 God allowed women raped and little children slaughtered.
Genesis 6:11-17 and 7:11-24 God is the greatest mass murder in history.
What happens? Religious people pop up from under every stone with the same old garbage. “That was the old Bible, or we’ve changed the meaning, or wrong interpretation, or we’ve changed the context, or the quotes are out of context or or or, excuse after excuse.”
The fact is, they are Bible quotes, and the Bible is full of evil atrocities which religious people continually cover up, yet seem happy to drum into the minds of gullible little children. This is such a shameful disgrace in a civilised world.
If religious people are unable to apply commonsense and logic to develop a simple moral code to live by, then perhaps they could strip out of the Bible the evil, murders, rapes, abuse, and all traumatic references. Granted there will not be a lot left to read, but at least religious people may end up with a decent moral code to follow based on good, and not scare the living daylights out of innocent little children.
2006-08-30 11:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 3⤊ 6⤋
If all of those questions could be truthfully answered, then yes, I would honestly sit down and learn about it.
But i would probably still find it all as a load of BS.
2006-08-30 11:29:21 · answer #7 · answered by m_thurson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and im patiently waiting for the day that someone can do that for me. but God is far out of our realm of thinking and we do not have the aloud capacity to fully understand y God does what he does and is reasoning behind it. our only jobs on earth are to live and serve. choose to live life as u please and choose to serve whomever u please. we have complete free will and are allowed to do whatever we want. our decisions bring forth happiness or pain and then sometimes unseen forces can bring the same thing. only faith and a foundation can keep us sane and moving thru the ups and downs of life.
2006-08-30 11:35:51 · answer #8 · answered by foxzie006 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Brenda´s World. But if you picked up everything true from ALL religions and put it into one book, than yes, i would study that.
2006-08-30 11:36:24 · answer #9 · answered by veve 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hi, are you a JW? Just wondering, cause I am. If you are, good question, if not, there is a book that is called "What does the Bible really Teach?" and you can get it for free at http://www.watchtower.org and all your life's questions will be answered for you.
2006-08-30 11:35:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Check out this link and do the studies and you will have all the answers to the questions you posed.
www.bibleuniverse.com
2006-08-30 11:33:43 · answer #11 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋