Each book is constrained by the limits of understanding of it's writers. Most Biblical scholars view it as such, and that what is Inspired, in the writings, are the essential truths regarding God's and Man's nature, and the nature of their relationship.
I'll buy a Bible and start reading , if Bishop gambler agrees with you on your comment ," Bible writings, are the 'essential truths regarding God's and Man's nature ".
I'm not a big gambler but I'm thinking of betting the ranch , the over under is 00 .
Don't believe for a NY second I've never read the Bible . I was forced to read it often in school .
That's another reason I'm successful at multitasking .
Every time the Nuns made me read the Bible , I was reading the words but thinking of the girls
in class , acting like they were listening to me , when all they were doing was lusting .
You'll never know how much education you missed if you never learned first hand , how girls in Holy Roller school , roll with boys with no fear of speaking .
Alleluia Sisters
Regarding my statement: the books of Scripture are about the 'essential truths regarding God's and Man's nature,' I'm speaking about many who believe in the Bible, not those who do not believe in it.
My definition of Holy Roller 1 , someone who doesn't change their shirt , wearing their Religion on their sleeve every day , spreading the word with every person they meet without asking for monetary reward , in hopes to convert those that don't see the light , knocking on doors in the darkest alleys , trying to save the World , one soul at a time .
I figure they were never invited to parties when young , they are hoping for a crowd that likes them when they die .
The rarest of Holy rollers , HR1 are decent people for the most part , though not always , and incredibly obnoxious , they won't usually accept money when offered to just go away .
Holy Roller 2 , someone who teaches their faith for benefit of life long shelter and monetary rewards . They are not as committed to following rules of their Faith and civilization like Holy Roller 1 .
Not too bad usually , though I would never drop my guard around HR2 , always wary of their bad side coming out .
Holy Roller 3 , someone who uses their Faith as a tool to gain trust with hope their next victim will believe their words are from their heart .
HR3's are usually attending Church for networking or finding inheritance from little old ladies .
They are the biggest hypocrite , similar to guys golfing once a week to meet new contacts , though secretly they hate the sport of golfing .
The majority of church goers are not Holy Roller 1 , 2 or 3 . The majority believes in their Faith without feeling a need to spend their sober moments trying to convince others to join .
The majority of Church goers help collect money for the poor , they would never take a commission from the collection plate .
When the the majority of Church goers collect food for the poor door to door , they wouldn't keep the Filet Mignon for themselves figuring it would be too rich for the poor person's digestive system .
The majority of Church goers are decent guys and gals attending Church , with hope they won't go to Hell when they die .
The majority of Church goers wouldn't take advantage of a young teen age girl looking for comfort and safety in their Church by taking her to an out of town Hotel like Holler Roller 1, 2, or 3's have done .
The majority of Church goers are not my idea of Holy rollers .
DA is my idea of HRAPS Holy Rebel Agnostic Preacher Scientist . More obnoxious when spreading their word than HR1's .
Though HRAP's will often bear false witness for monetary gain .
regarding how most people define Holy Roller. They are Pentecostals. You may have run into some closet Charismatics in your Catholic school days (they are similar in some ways, but not nearly as demonstrative in their worship), but not Pentecostals.
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Is that anywhere near Quadseasonal's definition!
... on a side note, I recall the Wiki page header asking for donations in the past.
I grew up reading the King James version of the Bible. By the time we were doing Shakespeare in high school, I had that down perfectly!
I won't comment on essential truths and all that jazz because I'm not up for a religious debate.
But I think there is a great deal of wisdom to be found. Read, for example, the book of Proverbs. It's amazing stuff.
I also think there is something to humans having a dual nature -- both of earth and of spirit. After all, it is only humans who suffer adverse (temporal) consequences from things defined as sinful in the Bible.
There may be a few other animals that have an STD here or there, but only humans suffer from a veritable encyclopedia of STDs -- every one of which would cease to exist if we followed the rules in the Bible.
Anyway, the language in many parts of the KJV Bible is beautiful and poetic -- and there is just something about words like "abomination" that make for excellent reading.
Made absolutely no sense though cuz the more I read it, the more I realized all the inconsistencies that I read have been "explained" by so called "experts" who wrote a bunch of nonsense that never really explained it.
Case in point was the Inconsistent Geneology of Jesus in book of mathew and luke, I posted here several weeks ago. Complete obvious bull shit of the purest form but these 'experts' cook up some more bull shit of their own to explain the previous bull shit.
So I stopped sinking my head in that book of faith cuz I wised up and desided not to live by faith but by pursuit of finding facts.
So I discovered SCIENCE. It doesn't know everything but it knows a whole lot more factual evidence than bible.
I realized that science makes a WHOLE LOT MORE FUCKING SENSE than KJV.
KJV is full of loosely fitted stories that you have to have a pretty damn good imagination to fit together. It's an anecdotal book from several different stories from different time periods just slapped together.
If you had to pick a few books out of the KJV. Which ones would you say are the most practical ? What did you think about the book for proverbs ?
... I love saying stuff like "Verily, thine eyes seeest not thine own iniquities of the flesh. Nay, verily I say unto thee that thine iniquities are abominable."
I mean, I just made that up but its cool language.
the bloke added some asinine twists to it and wrote himself in as the star .
his angle was good too , sell it to brown skin people so in future generations they can down airplanes over Maylasia and still get treated with kid gloves by white guilt in the media .
dumb cunts like Theresa Villiers
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I must have missed the biblical passage stating "feel free to amend these precepts and principles, as you see fit, to accommodate your varying needs".
I'm glad you take the Bible literally, and are living according to all it's "precepts and principles."
He feels women are second class citizens as much as the bible does. In fact, if you have read any of his drivel, you would see quite clearly this old fart is a died in the wool misogynist. On a tick board no less.