brent, The Bible was not written by God. Some say that it was inspired by God, but who said that? Those that wrote the Bible said that, not God. All those authors had to go on, were oral legends that were tens of thousands years old. It's like any story that is told. The actual events depicted by the story are slightly altered with every telling of the story. Even today, there are preachers who rail that smoking, and drinking, are sins. The Bible does not say that, so it is human tampering with religion. At he times these chronicle were written, tobacco was unknown in that part of the world, and there is no mention of tobacco in the Bible. The Bible doesn't say that it is a sin to drink alcoholic spirits. I says that no man should be drunk on wine, and that is true, but it says nothing about abstaining from alcohol completely.
I believe in all parts of the Bible that can be supported by facts, instead of beliefs in myth. "BLIND faith is sure to ere."
I believe in the Supreme Being called God, and I believe in Jesus as Christ, and my Lord, but if the Bible is so inviolate, why are there so many denominations, sects, and cults, that use it in any way they please?Why do religious people build idols to God when he, supposedly, specifically, told them not to do so? Why do men build huge cathedrals, and buildings that are mistakenly called churches, and call them monuments to God, when they are nothing but monuments to men, because God, or Jesus, never asked for a monument. Jesus spoke, and did His miracles, out it the open, and He also said that His church would be made up of every individual that believed in Him, not a man made building. He said nothing about structures of steel, wood, brick, and concrete. All of these are elements of mans tampering with religion. Such tampering has been going on for so many thousands of years, there is hardly a Christian on Earth that knows, much less believes, the true will of God.
God did not say that the earth was created in six days. The people that put the age old legend on paper, are the ones that said the Earth was created in six days. Besides that, who can know how long a day is to God? A day to God could be a million years to the simple minds of mankind.
IF you want to continue to go blindly through life, satisfied with a document written by men, then be my guest. If God did not want us to think, and probe, he would not have allowes us to grow such large brains. |
