Another chapter down (very long)
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rai_ryuLast night I finished Exodus.
I did enjoy that chapter. It was more narrative than Genesis, and a lot less repetetive. Although, near the end of the chapter it got into tedious descriptions on how to make certain Holy Furniture. But then when they were over, it was like "Then they made the Holy Furniture *repeats exact same description of everything". Kind of a bothersome way to end the chapter. I have not started Leviticus yet, but that is a pretty cool name.
I think that I have decided the Bible is not The Word Of God. As in, it was written by humans, even if it was dictated to them by God. I am trying to decide the nature of the Christian God based on how the text portrays but it is kind of hard. He seems almost bipolar. Or at the very least, human. I think the Christian God is often taken at one extreme or the other when really he is more complicated than that.
Another thing that I learned from Exodus is that there are other Gods.
The Christian God did not say "I am the only God" he said, "I am the only God you should worship. I am the best of the Gods" (paraphrased obviously). He indeed acknowledges the existance of other Gods. Similar things occur in the Quran when whoever is narrating keeps referring to themselves as "we" (the Royal We maybe?). There's other weirdness in the Quran but this journal is long enough already.
Of course, all the weird changes of personality the Christian God has had so far got me thinking about athiests. I tend to rant about them a lot, but I'm trying not to generalize because if I accept all religions I will have to accept all non-religions (though some athiest are dangerously close to making atheism an actual religion which defeats the point).
I was at a religions conference a month or so ago. Of course, there was an athiest stall set up. If figure, there's going to be books on science or things explaining natural wonders in a scientific way.
No. The stall is full of books saying "CHRISTIANITY IS WRONG." "THE BIBLE SAYS TO HATE WOMEN." That is the thing that irks me. Most athiest activity I see is disproving Christianity. As if that is the only religion out there. Athiests try to convert people just as much, if not more, than Christians do. Of course, those are just the most vocal of them, and not necessarily the majority.
I am going to keep reading, slow as it may be, and try to figure this Bible thing out.
I did enjoy that chapter. It was more narrative than Genesis, and a lot less repetetive. Although, near the end of the chapter it got into tedious descriptions on how to make certain Holy Furniture. But then when they were over, it was like "Then they made the Holy Furniture *repeats exact same description of everything". Kind of a bothersome way to end the chapter. I have not started Leviticus yet, but that is a pretty cool name.
I think that I have decided the Bible is not The Word Of God. As in, it was written by humans, even if it was dictated to them by God. I am trying to decide the nature of the Christian God based on how the text portrays but it is kind of hard. He seems almost bipolar. Or at the very least, human. I think the Christian God is often taken at one extreme or the other when really he is more complicated than that.
Another thing that I learned from Exodus is that there are other Gods.
The Christian God did not say "I am the only God" he said, "I am the only God you should worship. I am the best of the Gods" (paraphrased obviously). He indeed acknowledges the existance of other Gods. Similar things occur in the Quran when whoever is narrating keeps referring to themselves as "we" (the Royal We maybe?). There's other weirdness in the Quran but this journal is long enough already.
Of course, all the weird changes of personality the Christian God has had so far got me thinking about athiests. I tend to rant about them a lot, but I'm trying not to generalize because if I accept all religions I will have to accept all non-religions (though some athiest are dangerously close to making atheism an actual religion which defeats the point).
I was at a religions conference a month or so ago. Of course, there was an athiest stall set up. If figure, there's going to be books on science or things explaining natural wonders in a scientific way.
No. The stall is full of books saying "CHRISTIANITY IS WRONG." "THE BIBLE SAYS TO HATE WOMEN." That is the thing that irks me. Most athiest activity I see is disproving Christianity. As if that is the only religion out there. Athiests try to convert people just as much, if not more, than Christians do. Of course, those are just the most vocal of them, and not necessarily the majority.
I am going to keep reading, slow as it may be, and try to figure this Bible thing out.
