Questions
Why was Abel, a shepherd, favored over Cain, a farmer? Why did the Lord totally condemn then allow purgatory and protection for Cain? Are we as humans born of Cain or Noah, next chapters? The Bible writes of giants occupying the lands, dinosaurs? Why is written human history so recent on the tables of time?
I don't ask these questions to challenge the Lord as He already knows. I ask them to challenge you and me.
I don't ask these questions to challenge the Lord as He already knows. I ask them to challenge you and me.
posted by Goat | 9:20 PM
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It doesn't matter how smart the scholars were who translated the bible. They were still human, and therefore fallable.
The only was to really read the bible to find the first copy (which I assume God wrote).
Yes they were human, Robot and thus prone to human error. There is a certain ethic held by religious scholars of all faiths to preserve for history their spiritual history intact so I can hold securely that the KJV Bible I read is accurate, I have much less faith in modern translations. Did you know Shakespeare helped with Psalms and other poetic passages? It is a history book and inspiration begun over 5000 yrs ago by the Jewish people, not a figment of the modernist imagination, like Dante's "Inferno" or Milton's "Paradise Lost". No humans don't have powercords coming from our rears nor harddrives for brains, but I manage to confuse this top of the line new Dell quite often with logical commands. Harddrives crash, early oral and written history was driven to near perfection by the human mind through careful teaching and study. May I remind you that it took the most massive supercomputer of the silicon age to finally beat the chess champ and he won round two by playing illogically.Are we entering an age of the Borg, I don't think so. I also offer this from FirstThings.com.
" This electronic outpouring of affection for the pope was fitting, since he had been something of an early proponent of the Internet. At the World Communications Day in 1990, John Paul II said the Church must use “the full potential of the ‘computer age’”—this, at a time when the Internet barely existed. Two years later the Pontifical Council for Social Relations issued Aetatis Novae on the twentieth anniversary of Communio et Progressio, and while the document didn’t mention the Internet specifically, it defined communication as an act of “giving of self in love.” Insisting the Church must “communicate its message in a manner suited to each age,” Aetatis Novae called emerging communication technologies “a marvelous expression of human genius” which would be “essential in evangelization and catechesis.”
The capstone of the Vatican’s endorsement of the Internet was John Paul II’s apostolic letter about the New Media in January 2005. “New technologies,” he wrote, “create further opportunities for communication understood as a service to the pastoral government and organization. . . . One clear example today is how the Internet not only provides resources for more information, but habituates persons to interactive communication.” The pope warned that without proper formation, the Internet ran “the risk of manipulating and heavily conditioning, rather than serving people,” yet he concluded, with his typically joyous faith, “Do not be afraid!”"
So Pastor Tim, the Pope endorsed the use of the internet for theologic discussion. Why do I need to go sit in a building for half a day with chores waiting to listen to another human prone to the same afflictions as others tell me how to live with the Lord when He instructs me to go into a closet. To find His word and its lesson's I merely have to open my Bible, that is why I started this study. Maybe that folks that are estranged from a "church" may find a place of discourse to ask questions. Robot is here, curious and questioning as a shy smarty pants but here, sorry for my earlier harsh verbage, robot. If you don't ask questions and wonder , you will never learn. That is what I want to do.
That's what's great about the Internet. The stuff here won't degrade over time. 500 years from now, people will be able to see our conversations in their entirety. There is no copying, no replicating. Just the original.
As it was meant to be.
Very true, robot, many of the arguments held by fundamentalist on the atheistic and theologic side as to the literal interpretation of especially Genesis are simply ludicrous and ignore the metaphoric beauty and seek to limit the Lord to fit their narrow views of life. Why is it hard to imagine the Lord creating evolutionary history for biologists, paleontologists, geologists and a host of other minds to contemplate in His Glory? How could the Supreme Being be tempted if He is not tempted by His own power? If He is truelly supreme, how could He be tempted by a secondary force, Satan, unless Satan is a metaphor for the struggle we all face within as we are created in His image knowing good from evil?
And it can all be lost with a push of the wrong button, human error.
Timohty! "Perhaps you are attending an apostate church ..."
Oh, my Lord! Perhaps.
And perhaps Timothy pastors one.
"Perhaps" can be misused very easily, see.
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