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The way I approach the Bible is that it is thought inspired, not word inspired. It isn't dictated word for word from God to man. God didn't dictate every word and have man meticulously write it down. Good spoke to men through dreams, visions, inspiration, and men wrote what he heard and saw in...

Yes, I was alluding to that a couple of posts previous. Can't wait to hear her answer after hauling me over hot coals for reversing the order of Peters state of dress while fishing.

And yet after 7 pages you still haven't found anything to criticise concerning 'my religion', even though I am sure you were looking. So my quoting scripture that says love is the fulfilling of the law was the best you could do? Being changed into the image of Christ as was the focus of the...

Having a more enlightened perspective of the character of God gives us an image of God that is so much more beautiful than an authoritarian law giver. Love is the fulfilling of the law. By beholding we are changed. We behold perfect undying unconditional love in the face of Jesus and we become...

You are getting your nose out of joint because I suggest that the scriptures are written in a form more in tune with songwriters, musicians, poets, lyricists and story tellers rather than the many who think it a text book on theology? I wasnt equating hippies with the Bible writers by way of...

I have absolutely no idea what you just said.

Are you sure about that Mary?

If it doesn't matter what you think the Bible is, then what are you doing with it? Yes, it is about relationship. A relationship which at times took turns for the worse. A relationship shaped by and large through a deficient understanding on one side as to who the other side is, and what He was...

and yes, I got that wrong. But again, you denigrate hippies because in your opinion they were generally regarded as shabbily dressed which you considered an insult to a fisherman who worked naked. You done of being unemployed in a derogatory fashion as if it was somehow connected to character...

I wasn't. But you were denigrating hippies for their dope smoking, saying that was an insult to the writers of scripture. Yet some of them were murderers... David and Moses.eg.

@Marymog @amadeus when I read scripture I am discerning a picture of God. It is a self portrait revealed through the minds of those He redeemed. And He came to redeem sinners. He came and spent most of His time with the unemployed, the homeless, the dope smokers, the shabbily dressed, the...

That is very true. What general picture do you take away from John's writing regarding the character of God,? Was his writing focused on a different aspect of character than other writers?

Mine too, but not out of that movement. Discovered that a little later through the music of Keith Green, Chuck Gerard, Second Chapter of Act, and who was the guy who sang "Day? of Destruction"?

Yes, they were those things, but you needn't take them all so seriously. Remember, the Bible isn't a treatise revealing them... It's God revealing Himself through them. They painted a picture of God... They were artists... And I think we need to look at the Bible from that part to paradigm in...

Yes, and those people were poets and song writers. They didn't write as Kings and priests and politicians and Rabbis... They wrote as intimate cheerful friends celebrating the wonder and beauty of God. God was revealing Himself through those folk and he didn't do so through the medium of...

The writers of scripture were farmers and fisherman ( and Peter dived into the sea naked on one occasion to swim ashore to Jesus) ... That takes care of the shabbily dressed... The writers of scripture were a tax collector, and a rebel homeless prince... That takes care of the unemployed...

Take Revelation for example. Have you studied the chiasm form John wrote in? He didn't just scribble out a whole lot of words and phrases like a monologue secretarial letter from the boss. It has structure, beauty, design... It's poetic, not a dissertation on theology. I think the Bible...

You don't think God sings? Read Isaiah 42. First He's singing to us about His Son, then He sings directly to His Son. The entire Bible of chock full of songs and poems and metaphor and hyperbole... Even atheists who don't believe the supernatural testimony of scripture but do study the Bible in...

Interesting. And gotta agree with you. Perplexing.