March 23, 2005
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I actually posted this on my sister’s Xanga, but I’ve been thinking about it so much that I have to put it here, as well.
Personally, I think religion is imperfect man’s way of reaching out to
a perfect God, but since it is man’s way, and man is imperfect, then
religion is also therefore flawed. How can we trust a Bible that is
written by men, then? We can’t. You get the answer that it was divinely
inspired by God, but that is all you’ve got. The facts are that men
wrote the books of the Bible, and later on other men decided which
writings should be included and which ones should not. They say that
the books of the Bible were chosen because the words were spoken by
God, but then they say that we know what God’s words are by reading the
Bible. Doesn’t that seem like circular reasoning to you? Or better yet, brainwashing?Heresy. Blasphemy. Whatever you want to call it. It’s what I believe right now.
Comments (4)
I think we have pieces of the picture all around us. I immediately think of 1 Corinthians 13 where the writer talks about how we only see in part now, but will one day see in full. We can see reflections of God and have a childlike understand of God now (whether through Scripture, nature, relationships — or a combination of all). Perhaps one day we’ll understand completely. . . I almost like to think we never will — that God’s love will be just as overwhelming and mysterious hundreds of years from now.
When I learned about all that in old testament history, I had all those same questions. never had them answered, and took the easy “ignorance is bliss” route. since you refuse that road (and I applaud you), I can’t wait to see where you end up.
You stopped at religion, why not God also being a creation of man, to justify our place on the nice ball of dirt. Perhaps religion is only flawed because the god we are reaching out to is a flawed creation of our own. Then again I find it funny that self admitted “flawed beings” could look at anything and then say ”Thats flawed”. Being flawed doesn’t make you a judge of what is or isn’t perfect.
Bravo for asking questions! If the God we say we believe in is real, than he must be big enough to answer any questions we can bring before him. I wouldn’t want to serve a god that couldn’t do that.