unknown dimensions, talking snakes and donkeys, prophecy, fruit that could make you know good and evil, fruit that can make you live forever, a worldwide flood that the Egyptians, the Chinese and the Aztecs didn't notice, the four corners of the world, the firmament above the Earth etc. etc.
Do you have to swallow it all down. or can you just ignore all that and believe that Jesus died to save us?
2006-10-19 17:38:42 · 22 answers · asked by eantaelor 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ideally "they" say you have to believe it all, but most people don't. I don't some of it is just to much to say you believe and keep a straight face. So don't worry about it. The important thing is that you believe in something.
2006-10-19 17:46:34 · answer #1 · answered by vichocolate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if G-D said he created the subtle beasts of the fields, and the more subtle than anyother beast of the fields, do you have any other choice but to accept the existance of demons? and by the way the word used in Parashas Bereeshees, for the more subtle beast is not snake, but serpent(written more as a lizard, with implications of color changing reptile wishy washy a false complimentig type of animal to gain trust polyticking)
since G-D warned the yehoodah in the seeanee desert, that even though witchraft was not a sin, prolonged witchraft(rebellion against G-D) could lead then into idolitry which is a sin. do you realy have any other choice but to accept there are witches in this world?
and your thinking of fruit, is distorted. what is the fruit of an electricial engineer? the fruit of judaism, the fruit of christianity, the fruit of adam and eve could be, their grandchildren who are not mentaly, all there in TheTorah.
the way you are looking at it is the way, someone else wanted you to not look at this the way G-D sees this. but the way some religion of men have previously mythicized it. have you ever called a person a rat. and have others to imagine this person, as a rat in physicial rat form? no! they get the drift of a person with ratlike actions.
we know there are firmament above the earth, we can confirm the planets of mercury, mars, jupiter, etc, even now in a distant solar system. even the ark animals, are not necessarily the type of animal your misled to think they are. do you know wheather a catholic or protestant animal is koser to pass a more than two of each kind? then what about the athiest animals. don't look at this the way this world has been mislead to think, with someone elses obvious way of missthinking in you. try looking at the problems at different angles.
2006-10-20 01:07:37 · answer #2 · answered by yehoshooa adam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Based on the Bible there are two spiritual kingdoms in the world. The kingdom of God which is the kingdom of light. The kingdom of the devil which is the kingdom of darkness. The manifestations of the kingdom of light include the Holy Spirit and God's holy angels. The manifestation of the kingdom of darkness consist of satan, the fallen angel, ghosts and demons.
Witches are people operating under the power of darkness. Christains have to believe in the existence of these two kingdoms because the word of God say so. A Christain who walks in the spirit (ie having spiritual sensitivity) can experience the reality of these two kingdoms and have no doubt whatsoever that God is real. If you live just naturally and not spiritually you can never experience the reality of God.
2006-10-20 00:53:03 · answer #3 · answered by seekfind 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to look at it with more of an open mind not and not see everything so literally.
Most of the things in the bible are symbols and they are supposed to be interpreted using other things around you. For instance the flood may have been noticed by other cultures they just wrote the story differently and we may not see it for what it is, or the flood is a symbol for something else.
Don't swallow it down, keep an open mind and try to read a lot about different things and this will open up your mind.
2006-10-20 00:43:50 · answer #4 · answered by Knowitall 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All of this goes hand-in;hand. From creation up until the time of Christ and until now God had already planned the blueprint for all of creation. Salvation and all. Every event in the Bible, whether significant or not happen for a reason. A reason which God only knows and it all works out for our benefit. Yes, these events did happen and they are all true. Even if you do not except them as fact that still doesn't change the power of God's saving grace.
2006-10-20 00:47:58 · answer #5 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the stuff in the bible exists. Different people have different levels of faith. It is not required to know all of the mysteries of the universe to know Jesus. The bible speaks of Jesus right through. In Genesis chapter 3 a prophecy of the Messiah is made. Jesus the one who would destroy sin.
Gen 3:15
(15) And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The Bible is all about the Jesus Christ the Messiah.
Heb 10:7
(7) Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
If you don't have the faith to believe in all the other stuff or if you are not sure just keep it simple saint. Belief in Jesus sacrifice on the cross for our sins and our acceptance of Jesus as Lord of our lives is enough. If you believe that Jesus is Lord confess it to the the glory of God the Father. Then be at peace your sins are attoned. And I mean all of them; past, present and future. We just need to confess that we did wrong if we do something wrong.
God Bless.
2006-10-20 01:20:33 · answer #6 · answered by Just_A_Guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Woo hoo! Some people believe the stories of the old testament are there to illustrate how bad people were geetting, and how bed we needed a savior. I believe it is really what happened, but somedays i question it. But on the questioning days, i know that if I die, I am still going to heaven. As long as you believe Jesus died to save you from eternal damnation, and you accept his gift of life everlasting, i think you're in the clear.
2006-10-20 00:44:12 · answer #7 · answered by Your hero until you meet Jesus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before you mock God's word, I would suggest you put some time into studying it.
You want to believe that Jesus died to save us? Okay. But you know where that information is? It's in the bible. Why would that be true....and the other things you wrote, not true.
2006-10-20 01:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God. I love to read the Bible, both because it is a great story and because its miracles give me great comfort.
2006-10-20 00:56:49 · answer #9 · answered by magicwriter65 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can just read and learn about what Jesus tells us in the New Testament and know that He died to save us.
2006-10-20 00:43:04 · answer #10 · answered by Tara662 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋