The Bible
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2025 3:57 am
One of the things one should ask themselves is, in reference to the Bible, can one study it while in a provable state of illiteracy?
Or maybe what does the Bible hold for the illiterate and what does it hold for the literate?
Can any one, actually objectively study the Bible, who assumes they even know what the word God means?
Part of literacy is knowing the difference between the metaphorical and the literal. The more simple a mind is, the more that mind has literal expectations.
So, let me start over. The Bible is a book and as a Book, what does it have to offer the reader?
I have actually known people claiming to be ministers of the Bible while never having taken the trouble to even read it. IN fact, a great number of people claim to be of this or that Religion, yet do not, and often can not, even read. I find that kind of odd, claiming to be able to follow the so-called Word of God, yet cannot even follow the words to Spot, Dick and Jane children's stories. And naturally, those people claim that this state of affairs are reasonable. Personally, I, myself, would never have read it save for the fact that I was, kind of, asked to.
So, I was asked to, and despite my attitude towards religion, I decided to take a look.
I started with Genesis, and it did not take me long t toss the book at a wall and say rubbish. I was expecting something literal,
But as the Book bounced off the wall, I said, wait a minute, the book is metaphorical for I could see right away, that there were two stories of creation, one look good, and the other looked bad, but they were both saying the same thing. The two stories, together were saying something beyond good and evil.
The fact of the matter is, the story which looked good was actually evil, man was heaped up with gifts, giving a blessing, yet had not earned a damned thing Now, the other story, which looks evil, well the Serpent spoke in the name of the Lord, what he said came to pass, marriage was attained, and mankind learned what it was to become like God. It is only then were they let out of the Garden to Garden Life themselves.
The plain and obvious part of the text, Man was created to tend the Garden of Life, which is the whole earth. And when one gets to the end of the Book, in Revelation, it is repeated, that the aim was to destroy those who destroy the Earth.
Look at what mankind is doing to the planet today. Now look at all the hordes of nice religious people. They don't have to read, and they don't have to do their job. Religions are then, under this view, inherently evil.
Throughout the whole Book, one will find something repeated; that the Book is sealed to man's understanding, that mankind cannot even read that book. Now, most people say that is absurd, that they read all the time. But what level of reading, as written, will mankind be capable of doing the work he is made for? When mankind has learn judgment, i.e., the science of Grammar. A grammatical level which allows man to know right and wrong in regard to tending this whole planet.
It is by no means a simple book, and it is by no means an easy history for a savage to become civil. The message of the Bible, is a fundamental truth about mankind. We are evolving to become the salvation of life, of our own, of this planet. You don't wait for a savior, you teach yourself how to effect salvation of life.
I have no respect for organized religion, those that distort the truth of man and the work he is designed, by fact, to do.
I rate the Bible as a must have, for anyone dedicated to real philosophy, as defined by Plato. Plato was a grammar teacher, yet his work to, is yapped about by those who, in fact, cannot really read.
Literacy is the only job a mind has to do, and if mankind were literate, this world would not be headed for environmental collapse.
I think there is a real underlying hatred for religion and the Bible because 1, people flatter themselves that they are educated, and 2. It tells them they have to work for a living.
Or maybe what does the Bible hold for the illiterate and what does it hold for the literate?
Can any one, actually objectively study the Bible, who assumes they even know what the word God means?
Part of literacy is knowing the difference between the metaphorical and the literal. The more simple a mind is, the more that mind has literal expectations.
So, let me start over. The Bible is a book and as a Book, what does it have to offer the reader?
I have actually known people claiming to be ministers of the Bible while never having taken the trouble to even read it. IN fact, a great number of people claim to be of this or that Religion, yet do not, and often can not, even read. I find that kind of odd, claiming to be able to follow the so-called Word of God, yet cannot even follow the words to Spot, Dick and Jane children's stories. And naturally, those people claim that this state of affairs are reasonable. Personally, I, myself, would never have read it save for the fact that I was, kind of, asked to.
So, I was asked to, and despite my attitude towards religion, I decided to take a look.
I started with Genesis, and it did not take me long t toss the book at a wall and say rubbish. I was expecting something literal,
But as the Book bounced off the wall, I said, wait a minute, the book is metaphorical for I could see right away, that there were two stories of creation, one look good, and the other looked bad, but they were both saying the same thing. The two stories, together were saying something beyond good and evil.
The fact of the matter is, the story which looked good was actually evil, man was heaped up with gifts, giving a blessing, yet had not earned a damned thing Now, the other story, which looks evil, well the Serpent spoke in the name of the Lord, what he said came to pass, marriage was attained, and mankind learned what it was to become like God. It is only then were they let out of the Garden to Garden Life themselves.
The plain and obvious part of the text, Man was created to tend the Garden of Life, which is the whole earth. And when one gets to the end of the Book, in Revelation, it is repeated, that the aim was to destroy those who destroy the Earth.
Look at what mankind is doing to the planet today. Now look at all the hordes of nice religious people. They don't have to read, and they don't have to do their job. Religions are then, under this view, inherently evil.
Throughout the whole Book, one will find something repeated; that the Book is sealed to man's understanding, that mankind cannot even read that book. Now, most people say that is absurd, that they read all the time. But what level of reading, as written, will mankind be capable of doing the work he is made for? When mankind has learn judgment, i.e., the science of Grammar. A grammatical level which allows man to know right and wrong in regard to tending this whole planet.
It is by no means a simple book, and it is by no means an easy history for a savage to become civil. The message of the Bible, is a fundamental truth about mankind. We are evolving to become the salvation of life, of our own, of this planet. You don't wait for a savior, you teach yourself how to effect salvation of life.
I have no respect for organized religion, those that distort the truth of man and the work he is designed, by fact, to do.
I rate the Bible as a must have, for anyone dedicated to real philosophy, as defined by Plato. Plato was a grammar teacher, yet his work to, is yapped about by those who, in fact, cannot really read.
Literacy is the only job a mind has to do, and if mankind were literate, this world would not be headed for environmental collapse.
I think there is a real underlying hatred for religion and the Bible because 1, people flatter themselves that they are educated, and 2. It tells them they have to work for a living.