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Mantus · 01-03-2004, 11:07 PM

Apologies for a poorly put statement on my part, it is becoming a bad habit that I make a point to break immediately.

You are correct that the Bible should not be touched. That was a foolish idea on my part. There is no such thing as the perfect scripture for there is no such thing as a perfect mortal.

I did not mean to come across as if I was asking to scrap the whole Bible. I was trying to say that perhaps it should be put on the shelf along side all those other great sources of wisdom that are available to humanity. I realize that the Bible is the origin of Jesus, and that it should be read to expand our understanding of the great man and his love of God. Yet Jesus was the Son of God and had infinite wisdom and understanding of his father. This wisdom is lacking in humanity.

As a human being you must realize that wisdom is something we can never pass on to other people. Wisdom is the experience of the journey. Every person is different, no one takes the same road and every one has their own way of walking it. When we read the Bible, the Analects, the Tao De Jing, the Tripitaka or any other great tombs of wisdom we do not look for wisdom we search for guidance; the guidance to help us walk the path before us.

To use your Hamlet analogy. Hamlet is a great play yet it is not all there is of tragedy. Shakespeare is not all there is of tragedy. Certainly we can learn allot from Shakespeare. We can spend lifetimes leeching meaning out of every page and every line yet there is more literature out there, there is so much more. Sometimes a change of perspective could be all we really need to see what we are looking for.

Therefore should we not open our minds to all the knowledge that humanity has produced in hope of finding God and waking the same path that great men such as Jesus have walked? The Bible is just one of many sources for the knowledge we seek. It is a vast tomb with many meanings and that is exactly why we should expand our search for guidance. If the destination is the same (the grace of God) then why not combine all we know and use it to guide us in the right direction?

01-03-2004, 11:07 PM	#11 (permalink)
Mantus lascivious	Apologies for a poorly put statement on my part, it is becoming a bad habit that I make a point to break immediately. You are correct that the Bible should not be touched. That was a foolish idea on my part. There is no such thing as the perfect scripture for there is no such thing as a perfect mortal. I did not mean to come across as if I was asking to scrap the whole Bible. I was trying to say that perhaps it should be put on the shelf along side all those other great sources of wisdom that are available to humanity. I realize that the Bible is the origin of Jesus, and that it should be read to expand our understanding of the great man and his love of God. Yet Jesus was the Son of God and had infinite wisdom and understanding of his father. This wisdom is lacking in humanity. As a human being you must realize that wisdom is something we can never pass on to other people. Wisdom is the experience of the journey. Every person is different, no one takes the same road and every one has their own way of walking it. When we read the Bible, the Analects, the Tao De Jing, the Tripitaka or any other great tombs of wisdom we do not look for wisdom we search for guidance; the guidance to help us walk the path before us. To use your Hamlet analogy. Hamlet is a great play yet it is not all there is of tragedy. Shakespeare is not all there is of tragedy. Certainly we can learn allot from Shakespeare. We can spend lifetimes leeching meaning out of every page and every line yet there is more literature out there, there is so much more. Sometimes a change of perspective could be all we really need to see what we are looking for. Therefore should we not open our minds to all the knowledge that humanity has produced in hope of finding God and waking the same path that great men such as Jesus have walked? The Bible is just one of many sources for the knowledge we seek. It is a vast tomb with many meanings and that is exactly why we should expand our search for guidance. If the destination is the same (the grace of God) then why not combine all we know and use it to guide us in the right direction? Last edited by Mantus; 01-03-2004 at 11:09 PM..