the bible is a big problem to me…no its people who hurt others over demanding that the bible is the word of god…thats my problem…to me the bible is the bible…something written by guys a long time ago…no women writers…what authoritarian rubbish…
The word Bible simply means book. There are many good moral instructions therein. Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. You are reacting to certain interpretations of the Bible–but there are others.
Can you name anything that hasn’t been used by a group to “hurt” others?
Technology?
Logic?
Machines?
Mathematics?
Social science?
Psychology?
Business?
Internet?
A deck of cards?
Who is dictating your hatred today?
james wrote—
Who is dictating your hatred today?
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turtle wrote—
I want you to answer that
I am not throwing the baby out…I am reacting to the persons insisting that the bible is the word of god and they can prove it…that has to go
maybe some of it is sacred and some not. Like a lot of things humans manage to create. Or maybe the roots of some parts have some magical, special spiritual significance but in the reporting it lost some of its magic. Or that was the best humans could manage at those times and places, but do not represent the limits of spiritual good.
Generally there is a yes/no decsion in relation to it. No need for that though.
It seems that your disdain for the Bible is based on interpretations by nominal Christians. The disdain then should be toward the interpreter, not the book.
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I don’t think the bible is sacred
No. It’s just a book. One can gain inspiration from it or not.
Turtle, why must everyone think about it the way you think about it?
kris I know others don’t agree…some persons suffer because some see the bible as the word of god…
I am asking where do they get this idea of authority…people are hurting each other over this crap…
Some prevent the suffering of others because they see the Bible as the word of God. Some reduce their own suffering because …
I agree with you phyllo…I am working on the bad guys
You want to discredit the book, so you are not just “working on the bad guys”.
Every shibboleth is sacred to the people who reverence it. If the bible is sacred, so are all the other holy books and tablets and parchments and scrolls.
To me, it’s all superstition and some of it is expressed in pretty good literature. As far as the bible goes, it’s part of my cultural heritage; I’m more familiar with it than I am with the Tao Te Ching or the Vedas, but don’t consider it any better or holier.
And I’m happy to throw out the babies in the bible, because they’re mostly dead, massacred, with very few exceptions. Ishmael, Moses, the brat Solomon almost cut in half and Jesus got away by the skin of their … gums, I guess. Read it. Inspirational as only a bathtub full of dead babies can be.
what I am saying is the bible is not coming from god…it is coming from man…and not woman
draw your OWN conclusions
If it came from only women then there would be complaints about that. But, you need to check the Old Testament, women are a good part of it. Phyllo has it right.
kris did the women in the old testament write those stories…
No women wrote any stories. As characters in the stories, they were temptresses, servants and/or mothers and/or wives. Except Judith, who was an assassin.