Is the Bible a supernatural book?

Seems to me you are agreeing with both comments there Tony.

Sal... made a comment in regard to a particular disagreement amongst texts and suggested an alternate viewpoint.

I said it was an awesome START to a discussion.
 
Thinking required said:
For Cino, I thought that I was not trying to hold you to this blame game. No, the people within the circumstances will try to blame. But just about everyone will at sometime try to blame someone else for their circumstances. I did that for the first 35 years of my life.
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Until one is about mid 20s one is often still trying to overcome circumstances one did not choose (upbringing) it is right around age 30 when you've had enough time, and personal development, to really be more fully responsible for one's own circumstances.
 
TheLightWithin said:
Until one is about mid 20s one is often still trying to overcome circumstances one did not choose (upbringing) it is right around age 30 when you've had enough time, and personal development, to really be more fully responsible for one's own circumstances.
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And then comes mid-life crisis when a 40 year old goes back to the stupid 20s.
 
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𝔱he Bible describes its content of words as a message of 𝔫ourishment and 𝔣ood for the spirit to digest

and also as 𝔯emedy to keep us all from destroying our physical bodies.

I do believe the Bible is a supernatural book that has an important place in the life 𝔣or all mankind who want to walk in light and truth.​
 
I’ve seen how the Bible speaks to people in deeply personal ways. It’s more than just words for many it really does seem to reach the heart at the right time.
 
I think the Bible is just what it looks like. A collection of stories told by people, but at the same time a story told by God. I see the New Testament as a collection of stories told by Jesus and His apostles including Paul, but also at the same time a story told by a first-millennium alliance of bishops (used by Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches), or by the Westminster Confession of Faith (used by Protestant churches), for their own purposes not entirely the same as God's, and at the same time part of a story told by God, about two kingdoms, the first one an allegory for the second.
 
brianedward said:
I’ve seen how the Bible speaks to people in deeply personal ways. It’s more than just words for many it really does seem to reach the heart at the right time.
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I want to respond more deeply to this than I did in my post above. In my story, the Bible is different things at the same time. One thing the New Testament is, is stories from Jesus and His apostles about Jesus and His apostles, and what they said and did. It can be a way of learning from Jesus and being taught, encouraged, supported and empowered by Him to serve His Father's will and kingdom, but also for Him and His Spirit to help us in other ways. To get the most from it of what He wants for us, I think that we need to do it together with neighbors, studying and practicing together to continually improve our qualities and capacities for service.
 
TheLightWithin said:
Until one is about mid 20s one is often still trying to overcome circumstances one did not choose (upbringing) ...
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Not sure we ever do ... completely ...

Hart said just yesterday in his substack:
"I suppose we never really become anyone other than who we have always been. It is often a circular journey admittedly, a grand and heroic, or squalid and cowardly, or (most often) boring and inept odyssey away from and back to our several Ithacas, passing through all sorts of adventures and delays along the way, skirting perils, courting the wrath of gods, fighting off enchantments, slipping the grasp of death, occasionally disguising ourselves or even convincing ourselves that we are someone else, but finally arriving back where we began ... "

Sorry, aside over. Now, back to the programme ...
 
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