October 23rd, 2009 (09:48 pm)
current mood: bored
current song: I didn't say I was powerful, I said I was a wizard-Chiodos
Everything's fine, I turning 15 on Nov. 11, and I'm feeling pretty damn old xD Or like my mother I'm: "Turning into Dust". The darn midget xD
Read Enraptured by Scarlet Hyacinth, beautiful book- no grammatical errors I could pinpoint (a first for me), and simply..smexy. Reread Twilight Series- great way to pass the time.
Now I posted a question on Yahoo Answers and I got beautiful responses.
Here's my question:
I don't believe in the bible.
I do believe in God & ten commandments.
I don't believe in priests.
I believe in same sex/ equality/ homosexual rights.
I believe most crazy 'preachers' out there are freakin' nuts.
What do you think of me?
Additional Details
Is there a religion that I can put my whole heart into?
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There was one whom stood out the most by Tweak, his response was:
You sound like me when I was younger.
I think you're a human person with dignity and who deserves respect. Withholding love from you would be a sin. Judging you would be a sin.
But my question is... Why don't you believe in the Bible? I would honestly like an answer...
Guess what. I believe in homosexual and same sex rights too. And I'm a Bible freak, and it doesn't contradict the Bible to support them, anywhere.
If you have questions about the Bible and things, I'd be more than happy to discuss things with you or answer a few questions and such.
I spent years of my life studying scriptural literature (that means the books of the Bible) because I didn't understand it.
God loves you, and he's content with you loving him. Don't believe you need to be part of a religion to love God.
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In which I responded:
Tweak- I don't believe the bible, simply because man written it. What made them so special to have contact with him? ; to speak directly with them to know the truth. I've always felt God's presence, but never through the bible, because in history man was greedy. Man always wanted rule over others, how do I truly know that the tales, codes, are truth and not fictional? That they were written to have some control over their subjects? I understand the concepts, and for some I respect, however I can't fully believe the bible because of my doubt of the truth within it.
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And he replied back in a beautiful, funny way:
Message: Your doubt is understandable. The Bible was written by man, and quite a few of those men say some pretty outlandish things. The Bible is accepted by many believers to be what was divinely revealed to the writers by the Holy Spirit (Divine Inspiration) This means that everything in the Bible was something God inspired the authors to write.
We need to acknowledge, however, that the authors were in fact merely human. They all had their own unique writing styles, their own individual beliefs and opinions, and they all lived in very different cultures and societies. It's not really understood whether they knew God was using them. Many of the books of the Bible weren't ever intended to be part of a Holy Book (at least by the writers), and they address different audiences with different issues. For example, Paul's letters (Romans, Corinthians, etc.) definitely have a different tone to them than the book of Genesis, or the Psalms. The difference in tone is due to the fact that each book was originally written for its own specific purpose.
At the same time, it's recognized that God inspired the writers. God speaks to man in a voice man can understand - the voice of man. It's important to realize what the writer meant to say in order to interpret God's intention for the verse. It's not what is written, but what God's meaning for what is written is. God can speak to you from the back of a cereal box, you just have to read carefully. :P
--He's the kind of person, whom I would definitely admire!