I agree with BrotherMichaelSky...The bible is to be interpretted metaphorically and according to the current time period with history as a guide for patterns and complex issues. Never as a literal form of the actual words.
I've never read it cover to cover, like maybe many in this forum, however, being of Catholic faith and having gone to school for 12 years of my young life to a Catholic private school, would definitely have me question the validity of each and every claim made by "man and their church".
I feel that this scapegoat and fallen angel and cities and places, are all implying an ideal of life, that can never truly happen, because of the facts that reality is just too dark and complex and REAL. So what happens next? We as people now create a middle world of idealism and complexity and bend and turn to suit the norms...of what society wants at this moment or desires.
I am a yoga instructor, who seeks the truth from within, as painful or daunting a task...as well as in my beginning studies in counseling and psychology. I believe in science and spiritualism as a guide to the truth...however, what happens in the Universe is affected by one thing alone, and that thing is us, humans.
As much as we may try to seek the blame for others to entertain, and comply or fear...why can we look at ourselves in the mirror...<"Man in the Mirror", RIP Michael Jackson>...and truly see with the spirits eye of who and what we really are doing here, and to each other.
I say this over and over again, life is too short to make it be this sad...when all you have to do is drop the bag, brush off the monkey, breath in and exhale out...take the time to smile, laugh, cry and smile again.
If this is not what you wanted for this post, I'm sorry, but I feel compelled to write this, because the specifics {or what "you perceive" as specific} makes no reference to clearing, cleansing, exhaling for the path"light" to God's way.
Be someone's chum, someone's buddy, someone's pal...truly.
The only sin against the Holy Spirit ... is the rejection of the Holy Spirit.
What I'm trying to convey is that a prophecy is much more than a prediction of events, and a law was given to be obeyed. Saying the prophecies are just things to fulfill confuses people as to what they are and who prophets are. You can overlay Ephraim and Mannassehs' woes onto part of the law, but it doesn't change that its a law. It doesn't make that particular law no longer a law. I'm also pointing out that Jesus saw the sacrifices as meaningful. It didn't matter that Ephraim and Manasseh had been estranged, so perhaps that was not the meaning of that law to him.Ben Masada said:
This was my opinion long before I met anyone on interfaith, and I have explained my reasoning briefly in the previous paragraph. He died for a much better reason than to pardon lawless people.
Any sacrifice dies because it fails to escape the knife, but it also dies for other reasons. His death is considered an atonement, a meaningful death similar to the way that a martyr's death is meaningful.
The good news of salvation would have gone to Jews for various reasons. First, Jews are required by law to judge the prophecies of prophets. (Deut 13, Deut 18) This places upon them the requirement to get involved in the prophet's work. They would have to have been involved in the process or it would not have been valid, no matter who Jesus was. Jesus said 'Salvation is of the Jews'. John 4:22 As you can see, in keeping with Moses instructions any 'good news of salvation' that was a prophecy and claimed authority had to go to the Jews first to be judged.
I agree with BrotherMichaelSky...The bible is to be interpretted metaphorically and according to the current time period with history as a guide for patterns and complex issues. Never as a literal form of the actual words.
I've never read it cover to cover, like maybe many in this forum, however, being of Catholic faith and having gone to school for 12 years of my young life to a Catholic private school, would definitely have me question the validity of each and every claim made by "man and their church".
I feel that this scapegoat and fallen angel and cities and places, are all implying an ideal of life, that can never truly happen, because of the facts that reality is just too dark and complex and REAL. So what happens next? We as people now create a middle world of idealism and complexity and bend and turn to suit the norms...of what society wants at this moment or desires.
I am a yoga instructor, who seeks the truth from within, as painful or daunting a task...as well as in my beginning studies in counseling and psychology. I believe in science and spiritualism as a guide to the truth...however, what happens in the Universe is affected by one thing alone, and that thing is us, humans.
As much as we may try to seek the blame for others to entertain, and comply or fear...why can we look at ourselves in the mirror...<"Man in the Mirror", RIP Michael Jackson>...and truly see with the spirits eye of who and what we really are doing here, and to each other.
I say this over and over again, life is too short to make it be this sad...when all you have to do is drop the bag, brush off the monkey, breath in and exhale out...take the time to smile, laugh, cry and smile again.
If this is not what you wanted for this post, I'm sorry, but I feel compelled to write this, because the specifics {or what "you perceive" as specific} makes no reference to clearing, cleansing, exhaling for the path"light" to God's way.
Be someone's chum, someone's buddy, someone's pal...truly.
I agree almost with every thing you stand for in this post of yours above but one, I don't believe in past lives or in the afterlife. That's the only life we have and we must try to live it the best way we can.
Ben