Contradictory claims abut the same topic leading to confusion. — Andrew4Handel
You opened the door for that comment by inferring a goal should be to develop our own faith. — Athena
What is your idea of how to judge truth? — Athena
I am afraid those who think they can know absolute truth are absolutely dangerous. — Athena
Let's all assume that is 100% true for this discussion -
Where do you want to go from there Andrew ? — Rank Amateur
I think people should stop promoting biblical infallibility and stop proselyting and should teach people the bible in a critical way without making false claims. — Andrew4Handel
Personally my interpretation of the bible and my examination of the contradictions leads me to reject most of Christianity especially in a literal sense. — Andrew4Handel
Christians are trying to spread Christianity around the world and trying to translate the bible into every language. In the face of this I think people being targeted to in this way by proselytizing and evangelicalism have a right to response and challenge. I think children have a right to chose their own religion and not to be indoctrinated. — Andrew4Handel
What do you think is true in the bible. It seems like you are prevaricating. And if something is true in the bible what is it and why is it true? — Andrew4Handel
Apparently, for some people, it doesn't matter why the statements might contradict as long as they do. Why should reasons matter? — BrianW
By truth I mean the factual. Factual claims. — Andrew4Handel
Apparently, for some people, it doesn't matter why the statements might contradict as long as they do. Why should reasons matter? — BrianW
What I respond to most enthusiastically when I read the Bible or other religious works (Christian or other) are general principles that I can understand and carry with me and apply according to whatever dim wisdom I have. — Bitter Crank
Before the New Order World, we had family order, and I think the New World Order is about serving the beast, not the family. I mention this because the beast is mentioned in the Bible. We are warned against the beast and yet we seem to be supporting it 100%. — Athena
What are we looking to find in the scriptures. If it's the truth, then, amidst the many interpretations, which do you pick as truth? — BrianW
aware of our biases and negativities — BrianW
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↪Athena the I.C.T.s of the first centuries of our era, Piscis, were the alphabet, the papyrus and durable ink. This new technologies were propagated throughout the Ancient World, creating a brave new world. It was very easy for people back then to think that written texts were magic, because they could communicate your thoughts and those thoughts remained even after you died, or traveled thousands of miles. Amulets and hexes used alphabetic writing to charge their incantations, and anybody could do it. — DiegoT
This explains the rise of literary cults. Cults where books are considered divine, or epyphanies of the Divinity. Since then, we have characters in written stories are our gods, and the voice of Heaven is no longer in the signs Nature as Celts, Egyptians or Iberians or Mesopotamians believed, but in published books. — DiegoT
The truth that makes most sense considering it's context. Words by themselves are meaningless, words get their meaning by the context they are placed in.
Hence to understand the word, one must read the sentence.
To understand the sentence one must read the paragraph.
To understand the paragraph one must read the chapter.
To understand the chapter one must read the book.
To understand the book, one must know the society/culture it was written in.
To understand the society/culture one must know it's circumstances like:
existence in time, geographical location and (pre)history.
All those are minimum requirements in order to understand them in an even greater context like the devine. — Tomseltje
The truth that makes most sense considering it's context. Words by themselves are meaningless, words get their meaning by the context they are placed in.
Hence to understand the word, one must read the sentence.
To understand the sentence one must read the paragraph.
To understand the paragraph one must read the chapter.
To understand the chapter one must read the book.
To understand the book, one must know the society/culture it was written in.
To understand the society/culture one must know it's circumstances like:
existence in time, geographical location and (pre)history.
All those are minimum requirements in order to understand them in an even greater context like the devine. — Tomseltje
Yes, governments and institutions do play their part in directing people but, they are run by people who must have proper values in the first place. — BrianW
What are the values held by international banking and how do you feel about the bankers determining what our children learn? Which do you think is playing a stronger role in determining our reality, religious organizations or the bankers? Do you think these people share the same values? — Athena
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