I don't mean to make enemies or make a stand but due to the words I heard from a person I trust with my life, I discovered a few... how do we say... views in the Bible... A book by God written by men through the inspiration of God.
I'm not here to make war or to change the mind of people... just my words. For the first time in a long time I finally feel like I'm lifted a bit:
Of Men and the Bible...
The Bible is a very unstable book... It's on the fast track to being nothing...
The college I'm in is run by Jesuit preists who, in my opinion, think that they are holier than thou... I, in my opinion, am forced to take up Theology for the next four semesters... why forced? because I have my own belief, my own religion, my own outlook in life, death, and God and then they start to hammer things into my brain... When time comes for discussions about the bible, I pray that my friends will stop me from applying what I'm typing down here. My whole outlook in the Bible changed because of these simple things that I discovered.
Since we will be using the New American Catholic Bible.... and since the school is run by Jesuit priests, we will be using the Roman Catholic viewpoint... So, based on the Bible, which we say is the word of God, written by men who were inspired by God...
1. Did the people of the biblical ages believe that the earth was flat or round?
You say round, then you don't know your bible... please read it again...
you say flat.... then God is one stupid God to tell his chosen people that the world was flat. Ask me to prove?... It's scattered all over the bible that the world has four corners... corners mean sides, sides means that there are angles... Our world, a sphere, does not have the least bit of a corner... Think about it.
2. The whole creation of life... We know now that the sun is older than the earth... it's a fact. So, how come in the bible, the earth came first, then God made the sun, the moon, the stars.... it was not until Galileo said that the earth revolves around the sun that people started to disregard Copernicus' Bible-based theory. And, it was not until space crafts were built that it was proven.
3. We all know about the deluge... it rained for forty days and forty nights... and, thanks to present knowlege of physics, I learned that even if it did rain for forty days and forty nights, the earth would only be flooded twenty feet. Ok... the bible said that the entire world was covered with water... where did the water come from? The waters now are the same waters then... so, what the heck happened?
4. What is God? Who is God?.... God is omniscient... omnipresent... all-knowing... all-seeing... everywhere and anywhere at the same time...
a. He created everything in the heavens and on earth... "He created everything" is what I learned for all my years under Jesuit education. So, since He created everything... He created hell right? And since He is present everywhere and anywhere, He is present in hell right? Oh, I'm not right? Ahh... so hell is an exception to His prescence?... Then that means there is a requirement, a restriction... Then that means, He can't be God.
b. He knows everything... He knows what I'm doing now, what I'll be doing tomorrow, what I'll be doing 10, 20, 30 years from now. This is because He knows everything. So, since He knows I've done it, I'm doing it, will be doing it.... since He knows this, will whatever I will be doing (bad, most especially) be something wrong? Will it be considered a sin? How come he does nothing to stop us from sinning? Because of free will? So, if he knows, if he knows everything... then it's not a sin anymore.
5. (Even I get confused when I think about this one) When Christ came, was there a religion present?... of course there was... What were the temples for? What was that religion? Judaism right?.... Who's religion was Judaism? God's right? So, God sent Jesus Christ, his only begotten son, to correct the mistakes that His religion was comitting... wait a minute... how come Christians were born?... Did Jesus tell the people to make an all new religion outside the religion of his Father?... Of course not! Since he is the embodiment of everything good, he would not turn his back against his father and create his own religion... he only told people to follow what's in their heart... "Father, thy will be done...
Am I going too far with my questions in life? I have started to question the existence of God... I know that you will tell me that the mind of man cannot even begin to fathom the mind of God... Ok, that's your belief... if you believe in Him then that is a God-given gift...
I, for one, am following my heart...
