Must I scour the entire Bible to know such simple things?
In Eden, how did Adam and Eve deal with biting insects?
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Sunday, November 2, 2014
Why
Why would I want to have a blog dealing with religion?
I'll make this as simple as I can. I like things simple. Brain damaged at birth (most likely), simplifying things seems to be the only way I can hope to understand them.
Religion is anything but simple.
Chances are, if you hear a simple claim about the Bible, it's false. For example, if you hear that the Bible was written by God, chances are it's false. That notion is just way too complex and vague. Define "God".
Another one... If you hear that the Bible was intended to be read literally, as though every story describes events that actually happened, chances are that's false. Even if the first simple claim were to be true, which it's not, why would God not illustrate his teachings by using tales? Teaching complex ideas by expressing them in tales is something you find in the old stories of all cultures and goes back farther in history than the written word. So why ban that method from God's writer's toolbox?
I need to be honest with my audience here, though. Simplifying the Bible is a daunting task far too large for me to tackle. And for the most part, it seems useless to do such a thing. It would be much simpler to just stick with simplifying things that probably aren't understood all that well and don't seem to generate, for whatever reason, insight into the spiritual realm. I'll try to stick to things that if simplified might generate seldom seen insights. And I'll do this only when I seem to have a grasp on those insights.
So do amuse yourselves, readers, but do keep your comments positive, please, or I'll just be forced to shut you off. Contact Google or God or the Pope or the Archangels if you wish to shut me off.
One other note... It seems to me that there is already enough "Holy Scripture" in the world. It is not my intent to write more. Future canonizers take note.
I'll make this as simple as I can. I like things simple. Brain damaged at birth (most likely), simplifying things seems to be the only way I can hope to understand them.
Religion is anything but simple.
Chances are, if you hear a simple claim about the Bible, it's false. For example, if you hear that the Bible was written by God, chances are it's false. That notion is just way too complex and vague. Define "God".
Another one... If you hear that the Bible was intended to be read literally, as though every story describes events that actually happened, chances are that's false. Even if the first simple claim were to be true, which it's not, why would God not illustrate his teachings by using tales? Teaching complex ideas by expressing them in tales is something you find in the old stories of all cultures and goes back farther in history than the written word. So why ban that method from God's writer's toolbox?
I need to be honest with my audience here, though. Simplifying the Bible is a daunting task far too large for me to tackle. And for the most part, it seems useless to do such a thing. It would be much simpler to just stick with simplifying things that probably aren't understood all that well and don't seem to generate, for whatever reason, insight into the spiritual realm. I'll try to stick to things that if simplified might generate seldom seen insights. And I'll do this only when I seem to have a grasp on those insights.
So do amuse yourselves, readers, but do keep your comments positive, please, or I'll just be forced to shut you off. Contact Google or God or the Pope or the Archangels if you wish to shut me off.
One other note... It seems to me that there is already enough "Holy Scripture" in the world. It is not my intent to write more. Future canonizers take note.
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