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why does the bible hate everything?
I'm Catholic but I really can't stand the bible, it tries to destroy every last religion other than it's own, I have abilities like psychic and have done spells, and never regretted anything I've done (except a weather spell, never making that mistake again) yet the bible hates them, also they tell you to wear your hair a certain way, and dress a certain way, and not to have sex or masturbate. Also they dislike homosexuals and bis (bisexuals) but there's nothing bad about them!!!!!!!!!!!!! So your telling me that if a homosexual helps the poor and Unfourtanate her entire life, educated child Muslims and other religions with a bad background, being blamed of everything (via the bible, I mean when something bad happens, the Muslims are always blamed), worked for no money at hospitals and homeless shelters, Fed, and housed animals and children, saved them from abuse, they would still go to hell just because they are homosexual. The bible can't dictate everybody's life and stop happiness! If the bible was written different, the world would be a better place. The writers did a horrible job of teaching about God.
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This is a good question, and I'm probably not the best to answer it, because I'm no theologian. Understanding The bible mostly comes down to knowing Greek, and translations etc....however it is faith that gives you the real knowledge.
I believe in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Christianity is an important part of my life, and it isn't something I take lightly. The bible doesn't hate everything, it needs to be studied for you to understand that that, and by study, I mean the whole thing. Again, you also need to have faith that things were written for a reason.
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Heres my stance on the bible ok, and hopefully this helps you somewhat.
The bible is not real. its a form of mind control that was made up a real long time ago as a guide to show people how to have some common decency (which in itself isnt a bad thing) and to show people how to live their lives because back then, the world was pretty lawless. It was either kill or be killed kinda place. the problem here is that the revisions over and over again to the bible by man became like that game "telephone" where you all sit in a circle and tell the person next to you what you though they just said to you and when it finally gets around to the person it started with, its become so distorted that you think "how could anyone have really said that!!?"
it also uses short fake stories to give people a way to learn certain lessons in life they may not have learned otherwise. which again in itself isnt bad either.
Where the bible TURNS bad is where its been rewritten in certain parts saying that "this type of person is damned, and that type of person is damned" and what not.
i went to sunday school as a kid being raised christian and was kicked out for having too much of a logical thinking mind. I tainted the other children around me and was asked not to come back because of it. even as a child i saw the inconsistencies and questions them right then and there.
such as: if a man should lay down with another man its a sin. How come it doesnt say anything about women?? lol
The bible has been misinterpreted so many times that during the time of reformation, people actually thought the garden of eden was an ACTUAL place! and ships searched all over the world looking for where they thought it because everything in the bible was taken so literally.
lets face it, NO ONE really knows what happens after you die because you cant come back and talk about it. I was taught that if i just live a decent live, helps others, and be excepting of the way people choose to live theres, (AKA hate the sin not the sinner) that everything would just work out in the end. and i still believe that to this day. ; ) good luck.
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Advice man gave you good examples of why the Bible is inconsistant and seems so exclusive and either out dated or narrow minded.
I started out as a born again Christian. Chose to overlook all the inconsistancies.Later after some studies on my own and learning to really hear from God and use my Psychic abilities, I left the construct of organized religion. I still believe in God and try to model myself after what I believe God to be through my experiences. Because my experiences were things the church would say were evil, of the devil, etc...I felt I did not fit there anymore and silently left without them knowing why.
Yes, you and I will be part of a minority if hanging out in the church. But once I left and became more of a spiritual than religios person, I saw that there were indeed many others like me who do believe in God but are not church goers. So if you ever do decide you've had enough of the narrow mindedness, it won't be as hard a thing to take a different path. If you are not an adult and have parents taking you to church and they insist on it, then bide your time, continue to practice your giftings on your own.
Keep on being open minded and following what you believe in your heart is the right thing to do. Your example of homosexuals is a good one. They are Gods children every bit as much as we are. Christians only show love and acceptance if they think they can a person to see their way and accept their way of life and beliefs. Once they realise a person is going to continue to reject the Christian believers ways, the love stops. It was conditional love, love shown based on the condition that they accept the Christians stance on everything. Conditional love is not Godlike love. Only the unconditiional type is.
I was on my own little path already within the church, following the lead of Holy Spirit whom I now call Mother God, (if you ever want to hear the story and talk about your experiences, write me any time) Basically, my experiences were to get me to trust my connection with Mother God, more than the church doctrines, parts of the Bible contaminated by humans and church laws. I eventually got there. I am so sure of my connection to my creator/the divine that i never have a twinge of doubt.
There is nothing you can do to help other narrow minded believers understand things correctly. Its never been the duty of a Christian to point out the right way. Thats been the duty of the Holy Spirit when she knew the hearts of a person were ready. And perhaps they wouldn't be ready in this lifetime but in the next. There is no rush or hurry to believe. And trust me dear, there is no better teacher for you than the HOLY SPIRIT.
Just for the record, after leaving the church, I found I felt most comfortable amongst those called Pagans and Witches. These are not the witches the church would have you believe. Pagan as a word used to mean the "unchurched country folk" and simply meant they lived too far out in the country to travel to a town or city for church and as yet had not heard any of the Christian beliefs. It wasn't as much a belief that they were practicing evil beliefs. But people were more innocent and gullible in those times. So when the teachings of Hell, Devil and Damnation came to the simple earth based beliefs of country folk, some pretty strange rituals and beliefs came up from the mix of the two. In attending some pagan rituals, I began to witness many things familiar to me that I had seen practiced in church, just called by another name in pagan circles. When I studied books on Paganism vs Christianity, I discovered that they are indeed sister religions, Christianity being modeled after many aspects of what the pagans did in their major Sabbat celebrations in attempt to make Christianity more appealing and feeling more familiar to pagans and all those traditions in the church from original pagan origins are still with the church today.
Even the use of incense in the Catholic church is of Pagan origin. For pagans today, use of incense or a sage smudge stick is burnt as a way of focusing on the intent to let negative things and attitudesf fall away, be cleansed away as you begin a ceremony or attempt to meditate on your own. Now the church does it because its always been done but has no idea why they do it. Even the spells you may do are not too far a stretch from the prayers Christians do. Both involve the intent of the person. Pagans for the most part, at least the ones I am familiar with, use spells with positive, loving intent. I witnessed my church in a prayer gathering, chose to pray for bad things to happen to persons who wouldn't sell the property the church renting, to the church. Their intent behind what they were doing was wrong.
In spells, we use objects and rituals to merely help focus our intent. Its not a matter of God not answering prayer most times rather than a person unable to focus their intent. I have had more times I have been healed of a sickness when i asked for help of pagans than when I was in the church. Difference being that the Pagans understand the principles behind spells but also in the group you find those who accept things the church wouldnt touch or teach, healing energy through various methods, like Reiki, gong, or tibetan bowl etc sound therapy. Things I have seen for myself work but the church taught us to avoid.
So don't focus on whats wrong with the church but focus on your path and discovering many spiritual wonders you have yet to explore.
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The Bible I believe is many things; the one thing I believe it is not is a road map for how I live my life.
Stop and think about when the Bible was written. There were very few real laws so village elders working with the Ten Commandments, which I believe is the word of God started to write what we know to be the Bible. Many parts of the Bible are Fables. Other parts are of mans law written into the Bible so people would obey them.
Look at the Jewish people; it is against their religion to mix milk with meat dishes or to eat Pork, why. Simple Back when this became part of the Jewish Religion the Rabbi's saw that people who were eating Pork were getting sick. They didn't know why so they made it a part of the religion that people of their faith could not eat Pork. It was the same for meat and milk. They used wooden plates, the milk got into the cracks in the wood and spoiled causing the meat to spoil. Again their people were getting sick and dying. Once again the Rabbi's wrote in to the religion that Jewish people could not mix meat with milk.
Similarly not to long ago Catholics could not have meat on Fridays, why? It was written into the Religion as a form of penance but the reason was strictly for conservation of the supply and was done away with many decades ago by the Pope as the supply of meat products is now plentiful.
While a good portion of the Bible, The Book of David and the Curran are the word of God for those religions it is also a book of fables and laws.
What the Priest, Rabbi's and other religious leaders didn't understand they wrote into their religions as Gods word against it. Among those things that were written in as being against the word of God is Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Transgendered, Masturbation and other things that I have written about.
There is nothing wrong with using the Bible as a guide for life and for worshipping as you wish. You also have to use your god given talents to think for yourself do what you know to be right or wrong. Example of this is: We now know that homosexuality is not a choice it is how someone is born. They cannot be changed even if they want to change it would go against their DMA make up.
The Bible is not a bad thing and it does not hate if you read it and interpreted with your own free thought. If you want a better world it is up to you, me and the rest of us who live in this world to make it a better place. Will the Bible be a help or a hindrance to those of us who want to make the world a better place? That depends on each individual person.
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No religious belief system is known to be exactly tolerant of the other (many, and vaied) belief systems. They are at base, what we call 'mutually exclusive' by nature. Members of one may take the line that those who believe any of the others (or who believe nothing at all) are simply wrong, they are misguided and haven't received 'the truth' (ie haven't subscribed to THEIR belief) yet. They may simply ignore the 'others', or some religions are strongly evangelical and work very hard to convert and enlighten the others. In more extreme cases they may indeed 'hate' all the others...they are evil. On the basis that anyone who isn't with you is against you, and anyone who isn't part of the solution must in fact be part of the problem. It's rather rare to find a member of ANY particular religion who feels that another may have a point, may be right. Since that would make your OWN belief system partly, or even enitrely WRONG. I feel that tolerance of differences in cultural belief and sexual orientation etc is about the individual. And the acts which you describe in helping the sick and homeless, working to preserve the human rights and dignity of those who could easily become hopeless victims we can describe as HUMANITARIAN acts. They need involve no religious belief or doctrine whatsoever, and in many cases they don't. We CAN make the world a better place IF we choose to, regardless of belief system. Globally, within a community, or simply in a one-to-one scenario with another human being. And we can help make it worse IF we choose to. And remember that most relgions have their 'fundamentalists' or 'extremists'. They are usually NOT representative of the entire religion as a whole. Not all Christians are raving anti-homosexuals who think that gays are evil and should be struck down by god. Most of the Islamic world are not would-be suicide bombers plotting the destruction of Western society. The 'extremists' are just that, a small percentage who take their religious doctrine 'to the extremes'. In terms of the 'friction' between belief-systems, remember that most had their foundation long ago. There would not be anti-muslim feelings in the UK. There was not a muslim presence/community in the UK. They lived in the middle-east and 'never the twain would meet' as they say. The Crusades involved the Christian UK steaming out to 'convert' (forcibly, it must be said!) the muslims in the middle east. But Islam and Christianity were already long-established religions even then. My point being it's hard to draw a line between Nationalistic and Religious conviction. The two are often strongly linked. Now the world is the proverbial 'much smaller place' and we are more likely to witness first hand the clashes, become more aware of the differences, even feel threatened by the differences. Hopefully, it's an opportunity for us to appreciate the differences and find common ground too. But sadly it doesn't always work like that!
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