Learning from the Bible

[Lucas Lousada]

I was reading some random Bible chapters and I realized it evolved from unconditional LOVE... to acts of hate and ignorance.

I mean, every chapter goes on and on in HUMANS saying that other HUMANS are wrong, evil, bad, disgusting, hateful... just because they :

eat seafood

cut their beards

eat pork

a man sleep with another man

a woman do not obey

separating HUMANS from GOD more and more, until its SO SEPARATED that the Apocalypse comes and that is the END

 

Religious people read the bible and use it to prove that hating a man if he is gay is ok... but the REALITY is that it is not, its soooo NOT OK that there is an APOCALYPSE after all this...

The bible is not a story to FOLLOW .. its a story to AVOID.. 

 

 

[Prabhaker]

13 minutes ago, Lucas Lousada said:

The bible is not a story to FOLLOW .. its a story to AVOID.. 

THE DISCIPLES SAID TO JESUS TELL US WHAT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE.

JESUS SAID TO THEM: IT IS LIKE A MUSTARD SEED – SMALLER THAN ALL SEEDS, BUT WHEN IT FALLS ON THE TILLED EARTH IT PRODUCES A LARGE TREE AND BECOMES SHELTER FOR ALL THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN.

If you dissect religion you miss; either you can see it directly without dissecting it, or you cannot see. The mustard seed is the smallest and the plant is the biggest. If you break down a seed you will not find the tree there; you can dissect it but you will not find a tree hidden there. In the seed you cannot see the tree, but you can go and sow the seed in the ground ,this is what trust will do.

Religion can be experienced by living it, if you dissect it, you will find nothing.

[isabel]

eckhart tolle describes the bible as "a mixed bag" because some of it is still clear but other parts have been so twisted that they've pretty much lost all original meaning

the first bibles were written in latin when practically no one but the highest members of the church spoke latin and to translate it to another language was a crime punishable by death

the bible was not written to spread knowledge, it was written to hide and keep control of knowledge, so a lot of it can't be understood unless you already understand it - and that's mainstream religion in the US today lol