(About the Bible)
It requires intelligence to understand it. What it teaches is both profound and timeless, and above all it is the truth. The intelligent man will read it and reflect on their own experience to assess whether it holds truth or falsehood. The fool will just discard it without attempting to understand. However the challenge is greater these days because we are under bombardment by evil, which cannot survive people knowing the truth.
If you look at the way the system works it tries to make us reject it because this act depowers us. The immoral person is one who is compromised and powerless and the evil of the system can only exist by it bringing everyone down to its level. Once you are open to temptation you are also open to bribery, blackmail and so on. This is how our government operates and the Bible does hold the key to how humanity could regain its power. For example if everyone had a high moral standard and could regulate their own actions a government becomes redundant!
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What it teaches is both profound and timeless
The intelligent man will read it and reflect on their own experience to assess whether it holds truth or falsehood.
had a high moral standard and could regulate their own actions
Well, the first paragraph is pretty awesome. The second one,well... I guess I can be forgiven for being a little unsettled by the idea of the system -actively and consciously- working to quash what Christians consider the truth.
For example if everyone had a high moral standard immoral , so they claim everyone else are the 'immoral' ones.
In other words, if everyone agreed with Boring Born Lost, they would all be morons and he would be their king!PS Bob, he's stealing from Sir Thomas More.
The intelligent man will read it and reflect on their own experience to assess whether it holds truth or falsehood, and will soon realize it's a bunch of nonsense written by bronze age Arabs. The fool will just blindly accept it without attempting to understand beyond what he was taught in his kiddie Bible classes.
The intelligent man will read it and reflect on their own experience to assess whether it holds truth or falsehood. For example if everyone had a high moral standard and could regulate their own actions a government becomes redundant!
Unfortunately, they can't, because they're human - just like God made them.
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are base.
"(About the Bible) Deuteronomy 17:12-13 (King James Version)
12And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
13And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
and timeless,
Genesis 30:37-39. "And Jacob took him rods of green
poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white
strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in
the rods. 38. And he set the rods which he had pilled before
the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the
flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they
came to drink. 39. And the flocks conceived before the rods,
and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and
spotted."
and above all it is the truth.
6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
The intelligent man will read it and reflect on their own experience to assess whether it holds truth or falsehood.
Talking snakes, asses, burning bushes, clouds
The fool will just discard it without attempting to understand.
More like the fool will believe the greatest absurdities because they are told it is true.
However the challenge is greater these days because we are under bombardment by evil, which cannot survive people knowing the truth.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
If you look at the way the system works it tries to make us reject it because this act depowers us. The immoral person is one who is compromised and powerless and the evil of the system can only exist by it bringing everyone down to its level. Once you are open to temptation you are also open to bribery, blackmail and so on.
Like Hovind? Pat Robertson? King David?
This is how our government operates and the Bible does hold the key to how humanity could regain its power. For example if everyone had a high moral standard and could regulate their own actions a government becomes redundant!
A religion steeped in gory imagery, with a long history of barbaric brutality towards any and all who are of a different religion or culture is not the basis for a government. Theocracies are not the way to run a free country. Government is a necessary evil; religion is just evil.
You know, it's ironic that you should say that it takes intelligence to understand the Bible. It also takes a fair amount of historical knowledge and the careful weighing of over three thousand years of written and oral interpretation to truly understand. Where it gets ironic is that Christianity has never really been in favor of the critical thinking and, yes, intelligence it needs to do this -- Paul shut his mind off to write a lot of what he did (I'm inclined to think that given how he manhandled much of Scripture, he probably wasn't much of a Pharisee -- likely barely scraped through yeshiva), and Martin Luther was steadfastly against intellectual inquiry even as he preached that the Bible was every person's to understand on their own terms.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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