[Opinion] What is the BIBLE to you?

[WordCraft666]

@Ziran

I checked my old comment and apparently left this out...

1st mention of sin?
->Gen 2:16
->216 = 6 x 6 x 6

216 upside-down 912
->Gen 9:12
->1st mention of rainbow
->"LGBT" logo

 

[Ziran]

My brother tells me my great-niece (his granddaughter ) ( about 7 yo) is just like me ; '' She goes to scripture , she doesnt want to be Christian but her Christian school friends go, so she goes with them . She asked the teacher a question ; ' If God made the starts by saying let there be stars , and fish by saying let there be fish and man by saying let there be Man ... why di he have to take a rib from man to make a woman? Why couldnt he just say 'Let there be woman ' and there was one ?' ''

Answer ? Teacher; '' That is just the way God did it , we know becasue that is what the Bible says .''

Little niece ; '' Yes, but if ..... ''

Teacher; '' That is what the BIble says ! ''

... Children are wonderful, and it's a vital detail for the plot. Eve was built after Adam.

In brief:

1. Adam is "formed" - Gen 2:7
2. Adam is placed in the garden - Gen 2:15
3. God commands Adam - Gen 2:16-17
4. The beasts are "formed" - Gen 2:19
5. Eve is "built" - Gen 2:22
6. Adam and Eve consummate their marriage
7. Then, probably while Adam is napping, the most naked beast of the field asks...

" ... Hassssss God ssssaid, ~you~ shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"

3:1

והנחש היה ערום מכל חית השדה אשר עשה יהוה אלהים ויאמר אל־האשה אף כי־אמר אלהים לא תאכלו מכל עץ הגן׃

... the serpent was more [naked] than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

what is your interpretation of what the BIBLE is?

It's a platform for discussing BIG topics.

For example, in my faith community we often discuss the weekly Torah portion through a kabalistic lens. This week, in the annual cycle, we're at the part in the story where the tabernacle is constructed. In the lecture below, the Rabbi uses the discussion and the description of it as a platform for discussing the Four-Worlds model and the relationship between primordial energetic principles.

If you're curious, here is the url in a code-block in strict compliance with the forum rules. Although, fair warning, it may be confusing and difficult to understand to outsiders.

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[misterqar]

I think it's the most influential book ever written, and that most people don't understand it. Even though what is written in the Bible is not necessarily true, it is a inter-generational vessel for knowledge, a manual for life.

 

[jin2494]

A powerfull grimoire of Magick created for the chosen ones and not for the faint of heart not for the NPCs, codified just for those who understand their secrets and Kabalistic codes, thanks to the Bible i learn how to work better with Azazel with the ritual described in Leviticus, the first occult book we have

 

[ArchonLynx]

Basic
Instructions
Before
Leaving
Earth

Its nothing important physically it's for the afterlife & heaven is within God is everything God is consciousness, consciousness is God

Orbs u see in the sky are God it's like we are cells within a giant being & heaven is a within us the microcosm & macrocosm is a infinite

Religion is false & created for crowd control for the past few thousand years & has no point beyond shaping society.

There is no spiritual growth in religion now a days

Pagans are the closest to actually understanding spiritual phenomenon & inducing it

The Torah is better but still is for control

 

[Firetree]

Basic
Instructions
Before
Leaving
Earth

Its nothing important physically it's for the afterlife & heaven is within God is everything God is consciousness, consciousness is God

Orbs u see in the sky are God it's like we are cells within a giant being & heaven is a within us the microcosm & macrocosm is a infinite

Religion is false & created for crowd control for the past few thousand years & has no point beyond shaping society.

... Make your mind up !

There is no spiritual growth in religion now a days

Pagans are the closest to actually understanding spiritual phenomenon & inducing it

The Torah is better but still is for control

The Torah is better than pagans ?

 

[ArchonLynx]

No the Torah is better than the bible and pagans are better than both & some of the information in the bible is useful it's a conundrum pieces are real most is fake it's not something you make your mind up about you take bits n pieces to form the actual picture

 

[nutmeg]

It's a book to avoid at all costs for me....I completely dislike it, I view it as mostly bad fiction.

 

[ArchonLynx]

It's a book to avoid at all costs for me....I completely dislike it, I view it as mostly bad fiction.

Yep 90ish% of it is trash & stories of people who took shrooms lol

 

[Firetree]

No the Torah is better than the bible and pagans are better than both & some of the information in the bible is useful it's a conundrum pieces are real most is fake

You must mean The Torah is better than the Christian Bible ? Not a fan of the NT ?

There is a Hebrew Bible , you know .

'' it's not something you make your mind up about you take bits n pieces to form the actual picture.''

? Did that mean ; you should not accept all of it nor reject all of it but select the bits you like and make your own story ?

 

[ArchonLynx]

You must mean The Torah is better than the Christian Bible ? Not a fan of the NT ?

There is a Hebrew Bible , you know .

'' it's not something you make your mind up about you take bits n pieces to form the actual picture.''

? Did that mean ; you should not accept all of it nor reject all of it but select the bits you like and make your own story ?

Yes take bits n pieces & create your own view

 

[Firetree]

Yep 90ish% of it is trash & stories of people who took shrooms lol

Ohhh mushrooms now is it ?

No spinning out from the smoke from the 'burning bush ' ( come on Moses ... we know what you were really up to , out in the desert )

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Yes take bits n pieces & create your own view

But why use the Bible to do that ?

 

[ArchonLynx]

Ohhh mushrooms now is it ?

No spinning out from the smoke from the 'burning bush ' ( come on Moses ... we know what you were really up to , out in the desert )

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But why use the Bible to do that ?

Why not I use a older bibles like the great bible and Luther bible and the gospells hold good information I'm not religious at all but I still read them for context & such have you read sefer yetzirah or Quran I just read these books for the puzzle pieces not to actually worship or follow the religion

 

[Firetree]

Certainly , I have been a student of Comparative Religion going way back - ex Sydney Uni . ( way back when we had free university education .. for whatever you wanted to study ! )


Earlier scripture that originates before all of them and seems to have had a great influence on many aspects of Abrahamic religions, at their core ; Avestas .

 

[ArchonLynx]

Certainly , I have been a student of Comparative Religion going way back - ex Sydney Uni . ( way back when we had free university education .. for whatever you wanted to study ! )


Earlier scripture that originates before all of them and seems to have had a great influence on many aspects of Abrahamic religions, at their core ; Avestas .

Zoroastrianism is a interesting one for sure

for some reason archons caught my attention at a very young age & still till this day

Free education should be a thing for everyone but can't have the herd get to smart the system would collapse & the rich would not be rich anymore haha

 

[Firetree]

Zoroastrianism is a interesting one for sure

for some reason archons caught my attention at a very young age & still till this day

Free education should be a thing for everyone but can't have the herd get to smart the system would collapse & the rich would not be rich anymore haha

Even I was surprised , at the admissions office I asked the clerk '' Why is all this free ?''

'' Well, the more each person is educated, the better society will be ! ''

Wow ! Those where the Whitlam days .... big biz got rid of him quick enough ... overturned our democracy they did !

Gough ( he even legislated land return to the Aboriginals ! ) ;

 

[nutmeg]

Yep 90ish% of it is trash & stories of people who took shrooms lol

i'm convinced in some ways its a cursed book too, I know some people that lives tanked after becoming bible thumpers and then claimed that the suffering was a part of the christian path....i can't with some of these folks sighs.

 

[Ohana]

Another thing to me is the Bible is terrifying and I'm tired of pretending its not.

What do you mean there is a man in the sky and if that man is not pleased by what you do he will find you and abandon your soul.

To just be so throughly abandoned or even worse in the bad place of afterlives. Its so terrifying to me. I don't get when Christianity posits that God loves you because all I feel is terror when I think of it for too long.

That feels terrifying. Atleast with systems that have reincarnation you get a do over.

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If the man in the sky exists then I want him to leave me alone. I just want to live a normal life. Leave me alone man in the sky. Leave me alone.