in my opinion, People can come to an awakened understanding of Life without an old book - you don't need to have read the bible to be a good person in the eyes of God.
It's true. God lives in our hearts and our souls. Don't lean too hard on the understanding of man. Shut off the distractions, sit outside at night in the quiet darkness and you'll find a comforting presence waiting for you.
So we are to replace the understanding of Man with the understanding of what? The self? So Man?
All we have is the understanding of Man. And I would much rather put my understanding up against the many, rather than just my fallible self. I am not an authority on Truth. No individual except for God is.
You simply collect the data but always avoid firm conclusions until they're proven accurate. You don't accept fact because man says it or because any construct of man says it. Shut your mind, open your soul, and you find truth.
In the end it doesn't matter what any holy book says. God is God and you have a built in spiritual core capable of processing that without the work of men.
What can be proven accurate? How? Is it really proven? What if it isn't?
Proven accurate by whom? Man? Yourself (i.e. Man)?
And we are not a spirit. We are mind, body, and spirit. To only address one is to miss the fullness and Truth of God's creation.
You can't find truth by shutting your mind and opening your soul, because then you aren't discerning what you are encountering. You're also rejecting the basis of the way God created us. At that point, truth is eluding you from the beginning, so you certainly won't find it later down the line.
In the end, it matters what God says. And if He says it in one holy book, then that book is His True Word. And since we are demonstrably fallible and incapable of attaining perfect truth, the only logical conclusion is that He would put His Word in an objective, external source that we can look to for guidance.
At that point, we only need have faith in Him and his Revelation, and not have faith in ourselves to try and figure out every little aspect of truth.
It isn't the work of men, it's the Gift of God. This is clearly a faith issue for many, and nothing else.
in my opinion, People can come to an awakened understanding of Life without an old book - you don't need to have read the bible to be a good person in the eyes of God.
My opinion.
It's true. God lives in our hearts and our souls. Don't lean too hard on the understanding of man. Shut off the distractions, sit outside at night in the quiet darkness and you'll find a comforting presence waiting for you.
So we are to replace the understanding of Man with the understanding of what? The self? So Man?
All we have is the understanding of Man. And I would much rather put my understanding up against the many, rather than just my fallible self. I am not an authority on Truth. No individual except for God is.
You simply collect the data but always avoid firm conclusions until they're proven accurate. You don't accept fact because man says it or because any construct of man says it. Shut your mind, open your soul, and you find truth.
In the end it doesn't matter what any holy book says. God is God and you have a built in spiritual core capable of processing that without the work of men.
What can be proven accurate? How? Is it really proven? What if it isn't?
Proven accurate by whom? Man? Yourself (i.e. Man)?
And we are not a spirit. We are mind, body, and spirit. To only address one is to miss the fullness and Truth of God's creation.
You can't find truth by shutting your mind and opening your soul, because then you aren't discerning what you are encountering. You're also rejecting the basis of the way God created us. At that point, truth is eluding you from the beginning, so you certainly won't find it later down the line.
In the end, it matters what God says. And if He says it in one holy book, then that book is His True Word. And since we are demonstrably fallible and incapable of attaining perfect truth, the only logical conclusion is that He would put His Word in an objective, external source that we can look to for guidance.
At that point, we only need have faith in Him and his Revelation, and not have faith in ourselves to try and figure out every little aspect of truth.
It isn't the work of men, it's the Gift of God. This is clearly a faith issue for many, and nothing else.