i started reading bits of the bible and saw in it that "only few shall enter the pearly gates of heaven"!
2007-08-24 14:43:54 · 13 answers · asked by nikki 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes, pearly mother fuckn gates? u read much?
2007-08-24 14:51:33 · update #1
You can't turn a page of the bible without finding something scary, grotesque, or just plain laughable.
It's isn't scary that people take it seriously and it's nonsense. It's scary that people take it seriously and it's OBVIOUSLY nonsense.
2007-08-24 14:51:38 · answer #1 · answered by Martin Evilmind 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you read the Bible without God's spirit it is difficult to understand what it's saying. Believe me. When I first read the Gospels (the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) I was in college, was an atheist and was doing it for an English class, studying the Bible as literature.
I found all sorts of inconsistencies and foolishness. I found all kinds of contradictions. To me, it was clearly so much garbage. In fact, I wrote a paper entitled something like "Jesus, Not Such a Special Person" or something to that effect where I used quotes to show that he was not all that good, contradictory, etc.
About 6 years later, after a lot of things happened in my life and I changed first to an agnostic and then a theist and then a Christian, I started reading those same books out of the very same Bible I had bought in college and used for that paper. I could not find one inconsistency or contradiction. Not one. And this is not because I was somehow brainwashed, had a stroke and lost my intellect, or something like that. It's just that I understood the meaning of the words in a way that I did not understand them at the time I was an unbeliever. God tells us in the Bible that his words are foolishness to the wise. And so they are.
2007-08-24 21:55:48 · answer #2 · answered by William D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pearly gates?
2007-08-24 21:48:33 · answer #3 · answered by L.C. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes. You should be reading the New Testament in the Bible. The Old Testament is a lot of history. If you want to read the New Testament, read Psalms.
2007-08-24 21:51:07 · answer #4 · answered by Tex S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is true. But read Romans 10:13...call upon the Name of the Lord and be saved.
2007-08-24 21:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I find God scary too. He has the strongest supernatural power in the universe, He has the power to create solar systems and microscopic bacteria... pretty strong dude right there.
2007-08-24 21:53:45 · answer #6 · answered by spinelli 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament and Revelations are scary. They are meant to be. The New Testament not so much.
2007-08-24 21:52:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i find it the most interesting book in the world.
especially now since so much prophecy is seen in our world today. it just shows how relevant the Bible is... even after 2000 years. wow!
God's plan for the world was & is completely amazing! to understand what He did & why He did it is so awesome.
i love it!!
i am not scared. i feel so privledged to have been born in this time & to have had God reveal so many things to me. i know He will take care of me & my family....
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are THE CALLED according to HIS PURPOSE."
(rom.8:28)
2007-08-24 22:01:48 · answer #8 · answered by t d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes....especially revelations....great horror story...just like Stephen King or Dean Koontz....thats why the left behind series made such a great fiction read!
2007-08-24 21:49:06 · answer #9 · answered by ButterflyBecoming 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Odd that parents(some) force that horror story onto their kids, but refuse to allow them to watch the Simpsons or Friday the 13th.
2007-08-24 21:56:46 · answer #10 · answered by Dethklok 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋