@divegeester
You're not alone. Many have left the Church and still profess to being Christians. It's very post-modern.
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-Removed-a. Not everything that is Christianity is in the Bible. There is a very rich tradition of Christian faith which goes on outside the sacred writings, 'Wherever people are gathered in his name..."
b.The Bible is merely a snapshot in time, frozen at, and by, the Council of Nicea in 325 AD.
c. Take notice of the account in the NT of the Roman centurion who approaches Jesus and asks a favor, to heal his servant. Jesus replies, 'go, your faith healed him.' Not, 'I Jesus, have healed him', but YOU, the pagan centurion, in your pagan faith, have healed him. We may assume that the centurion had never read any Jewish scripture, and no NT scrolls existed at that time. This confirms what Rajk has said many times here, that belief in doctrines is not the essence of what Jesus taught; the essence is to love one's neighbour as oneself and act accordingly. The centurion asks a favor not for himself, but FOR someone of markedly lower social status than himself, that is, the centurion humbles himself, and he asks the favor OF someone of markedly lower social status than himself, again an act of humility.
@chaney3 saidGrasping the universe as God does means what is good and evil He comprehends
No human parent, who is sane, would threaten their children for disobedience in the way God does in these verses. Our society would call it evil, and put such a parent in prison and place the child into a safe environment.
in ways we do not. God is not like us, each of us owes our very being to God! There
is nothing that doesn't owe its very being to God, apart from His making everything
there isn't anything not made for His good pleasure. God stands alone in the
universe, the prime reality to which everything owes its very being to God.
To compare Him to us is not wise.
@chaney3 saidKellyJay, you either:
Thanks for posting this.
I challenge anyone to read verses 15-68, really read them, and tell me that's God. The same God who supposedly loves us.
If you believe God said this, then you also believe that Jesus is in agreement with it.
Did NOT read the verses.
You did read the verses, and will never say anything bad about God, no matter how vulgar the text is.
(It's okay to doubt the validity of what appears to be man-made writings)
@chaney3 saidWell that is the point you were making wasn't it, are the scriptures from God or
KellyJay, you either:
Did NOT read the verses.
You did read the verses, and will never say anything bad about God, no matter how vulgar the text is.
(It's okay to doubt the validity of what appears to be man-made writings)
man? From God, everything I said applies, if from man, then who cares what it
says?
The thing you really do need to grasp is good and evil, God is totally good and we
are not, that puts us in a bad place with God and considering what God's goal was
when He created us, to be made in His image, that bar is high for a cause! God is
planning ahead for an eternal purpose, we don't even map our days by the hour
from time to time and follow through.
There are limits we put up with as well even with our own children, and because of
that you think God, who doesn't share our limitations and shortcomings should
make our standards His, or would it be better to make His, ours?
@kellyjay said"God is totally good"....... your words.
Well that is the point you were making wasn't it, are the scriptures from God or
man? From God, everything I said applies, if from man, then who cares what it
says?
The thing you really do need to grasp is good and evil, God is totally good and we
are not, that puts us in a bad place with God and considering what God's goal was
when He created us, to be made in His im ...[text shortened]... imitations and shortcomings should
make our standards His, or would it be better to make His, ours?
There's nothing good in the verses of Deuteronomy 28:15-68. As a matter of fact, it's all evil.