are you blind? habe you honestly read the bible.
I'm not going to argue with you again, but I would ask you the same thing that you ask me. You, yourself, admitted to have misread things in the bible that have aided in convincing you that 'jesus' was not such a good guy. You said that he was angry in a place where he was not. How many other things might you have misread?
Yet presented with the evidence that the bible did not say what you thought it said, you still draw the same conclusion and ignore what you were wrong about. I don't understand that.
I cannot change your thinking, however, nor make you see God as Christ showed Him to be. You would have to be able to see Christ first.
nearly every page we see the worst crimes, most vile heroes, cruel perverted laws and then we are told its from god.
Nearly every page? Really? I bet if we went through every page of that book (in whatever size and version), that would be shown completely untrue.
theres very little god to be learnt from the good book.
Now look, here is something we can finally agree upon!
You can only see God by looking at Christ. The bible is not the image of God. Christ is the image of God.
Or did you mean 'good'? I thought you meant" there's very little God to be learnt from the good book."
theres a famous quote that anyone who followed the ot would be a criminal and if they followed the nt thery would be insane.
Well, I follow neither... but I do follow Christ. I suppose that would have me falling under the 'insane' category, according to your famous quote.
there are entire books in the bible that NEVER say anything good and yet are remain filled with hatred, racism, violence, genocide etc.
There are books that contain most of these teachings. I never claimed otherwise.
However, I do not follow anyone or thing other than Christ. It is HE who is the image and truth of God. If something in the OT contradicts with Him, then it is in contradiction with Truth.
the bible has nothing positive to teach us today,
Christ taught (as recorded in that book, though I agree that it is Christ doing the teaching, and not the bible):
Love others as yourself.
Forgive others.
Show mercy.
Bless those who curse you/turn the other cheek.
Do unto others as you would have them to unto you.
Serve one another.
Do not judge.
Feed and clothe the poor.
Give to those who ask of you.
I could go on. But I think you get the gist.
I do not believe the bible is inerrant, or infallable, or even the word of God. Just so you know where I stand. Christ is the Word of God. The bible contains history, myths, morals, laws, witness accounts, and scripture (inspired by God, and so could be said to be words of God). But all of that is a lot of things to fit into one book, and it cannot all be judged by the same mettle just because someone somewhere decided to make the doctrine of inerrancy. The bible does not make that claim about itself.
Peace, tammy
