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Re: Are you sure?

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4/3/2003 11:23 PM

Re: Are you sure?

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"Trying to understand the nature of God is a bit like expecting your car to change its own oil."

Yes! it is true that if you try to understand it with your mind which is very limited it's like trying to do an autopsy (sp?) on somebodies brain to see what kind of person he is. You just can't.
The spirit of love which is the spirit of God is something understood with the heart or is kind of an unexplainable 6th sense if you will. When you feel love for someone or you feel loved is there always a scientific explanation for it? Or if someone else is in love you sometimes wonder how it can be. This is because love has an extra spiritual eye that others cannot see.
"The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whither it commeth or whither it goeth , so is everyone that is born of the spirit" (The bible)

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"Science is much better than religion because you can disagree with it and not go to Hell (wherever that is)"

Steve,
Sadly enough there are many religions like that and in my opinion do more damage then good. But that is not necessarily the way God is. He unlike many religions does not judge us for what we don't understand or even if you diagree with something. He looks on your heart and very mercifully takes us where we are at.
The tradgity is not that children are afraid of the dark but that grown ups are afraid of the light.

Thanks!
John Fisher

4/8/2003 8:45 PM
Matt in TX	This is the best, most civil discussion about God, religion, etc I've seen. Cool! I have a question for you bible scholars... how many different writers contributed to the bible?

4/9/2003 12:37 AM

Bible Authors and Books

Old Testament:
In addition to Moses, prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel, we have King David and King Solomon, a few minor prophets, and then there must have been literally thousands of scribes involved in recording the histories of Israel and Judah, not to mention the untold myriads of souls who faithfully preserved the oral and written traditions and histories and tales of history since creation (before finding permanence in the book of Genesis). And who wrote Job (which is said to be the oldest book of the Bible, by the way)? Authorship is not ascribed to most of the books of the Old Testament. Interesting to me that throughout the thousands of years that spanned the various writings by various authors, God seems to have a pretty consistent voice whenever He's being directly quoted. What a fascinating person He is! Some of my favorite God-dialogs are in the second half of the book of Isaiah.

Number of writers, though? Impossible for me to count. But perhaps a Jewish scholar in our midst would care to elaborate and/or clarify?

New Testament:
9 writers (assuming we don't know who wrote "Hebrews");
Matthew, Mark (who seems to have recorded the stories as told by Peter), Luke, John, Paul, the writer of Hebrews, James, Peter, and Jude.

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