We get caught up in words we cannot say now without legal jeopardy (think Shiloh Hendrix), yet it is our thought that is actually being prosecuted. Consider that I announce that whenever I say "agitator", I actual mean the n-word. Can I call negros "agitators" with impunity?
Everyone needs to read this post. If the jews ever needed an excuse to designate Nagasaki for annihilation, this was it. A bomb dropped on Tokyo would have been much more effective to end the war.
What did Noah use as his reference point for objective truth when building the ark? Insights originating from the earnest prayers and meditations and listenings of an importunate heart are more reliable than the works of human committees. We can observe corruptibility of the Bible even in present-day translations meant to serve human agendas. This is not God's failure.
May God bless you.
I understand the fear alluded to in your post: if you can't believe in the Bible, what basis is there for assessing truth? This fear is based on a western epistomology that requires knowledge to be obtained through learning. But you can obtain gnosis through prayer and contemplation. This spiritual insight is unmediated, but receiving it requires the courage to reach it in utter solitude, without any of the comforts of consensus or human approval. May God bless your seeking.
God's word was the living Christ, mocked and slain by Edomites, the synagogue of Satan. The (current) Bible is just a collection of texts chosen, amid great controversy and repression, by human committee, subject to human ambitions. It contains profound truth--enough truth that, with prayer and meditation, we can be guided toward righteousness.
That this assembly of texts represents the unaltered word of God is just a dogma, pure and simple, Mr. Williams. It is human opinion, with zero support in Christ's teachings and without much reason to support it.
In the end, it is each Christian's duty to pray to God for spiritual insight and discernment and to work out our salvation alone, in the midst of a thousand false messiahs, false doctrines, and snares of the enemy. God be with you in your seeking.
America 1963:
Almost no foreign oil
No war on drugs
No war on poverty
Americans built things
Machine guns were available by mail
Median house price $18K
Average home buyer age, 24
$1 US dollar had the same spending power as $115 does today
A crude tell of estimating the spiritual insolvency of a man, observe how he spends his first waking hour. the wretch who reaches for the glowing slab before his feet even meet the floor has already ceded the day to whatever saborow peddling him his morning dopamine. he is cattle being milked through the eyeballs. generations of men who once dragged themselves out of bed at dawn to swing axes into wood and haul water from muddy wells produced this sallow, trembling descendant who cant withstand thirty seconds of silence before groping for a screen like a drunk feeling around a dark room for a bottle
@AzPetrich According to Islam, King David had blue eyes (see below). Biblically, King David had red hair ("ruddy"). That said, the Davidic and Odinic bloodline that Jesus belonged to can be traced through to European nobility.
The Noble Lineage of Jesus Christ
https://t.co/npYYq0R2jv
@seethroughit2 I agree with many of your points. But Jesus was not a "Jew," at least wha is now called a Jew, nor was he God. Much of the Bible has been corrupted, yet there remains much truth in it. May God bless your search for truth.
@RussianArmy_ JD is so used to the same old hegemonic spiel, he doesn't realize how arrogant and off-putting it sounds to insert our nation, along with its bottomless ambition and power, into another nation's business.