The Truth Of The Bible.

[Theland]

Only the bible describes the state of the world as we head into the End Times.
Only the bible has verifiable prophecies that can be tested for truth.
Is it not time to take the bible seriously?

[Khandro]

n. // I've read the bible.//
But did you assimilate it?

[naomi24]

Did you?

[Khandro]

Some of it & I'm still learning. I think there's lessons for us all in there. I've asked about the third chapter of Genesis earlier, but comment came there none. What about that superb Book of job, what's that all about?

[naomi24]

I didn’t see a question from you about Genesis 3, Khandro. You mentioned it and said something about half-wits (I guess they're the ones who don't think as you do) but nothing more.

The Book of Job is, in my opinion, about a lot of things - but ‘superb’ it isn’t. What do you think it’s about?

Odd isn’t it. Theland reads the bible and considers himself authority enough on God to be qualified to preach to the rest of humanity; you read it and find the airy, the fairy, and the philosophical - and I read it and find something entirely different. And you ask if I’ve assimilated it? I think in stripping away the highly unlikely, the blatant lies, and the utterly impossible, probably rather more thoroughly than either you or Theland.

[Khandro]

n. // And you ask if I’ve assimilated it? I think in stripping away the highly unlikely, the blatant lies, and the utterly impossible, probably rather more thoroughly than either you or Theland.//

So you admit to gaining something from it (Job) ?

[naomi24]

The story of Job is one of the cruellest I've ever read. I gain nothing from cruelty.

[Khandro]

^ assimilation; not.

[naomi24]

Why? Do think there's a moral in that tale? If so, what does it tell you?

[youngmafbog]

Do you own a couple of boards with "The End is Nigh" on TheLand?

[Patsy33]

I know what you mean about Job, Naomi.
It's like someone playing cruel, psychopathic games with people's emotions.

[Khandro]

n. & now patsy; You are both simply looking at the surface.

Have you ever pondered why someone with such intellect & brains as Jung (& scores of others) have spent so much time considering & writing about the Book of Job ?

I am not on these 'tweets' going to attempt a summary, but if you google something like, 'What does the Book of Job tell us?' I'm sure you will find lots of deeper explanations.

[Peter Pedant]

// The Book of Job, on the face of it, represents an internal criticism within the Hebrew Bible itself of Biblical theology (according to which God is conceived not only as the Creator of the universe, but as a moral God) in seemingly raising the philosophic problem of theodicy of why a moral God does not prevent evil.//

looks like a big job to me !

In our family, we do have a jemima and in the century before last a Karen-Nephtha - may be Karren-happuch

er the NT is called the new convenant boys and girls

[naomi24]

Khandro, I’ve seen the explanations and they don’t wash. God is always given a get out by the faithful.

Patsy, God was big on mental torment. Abraham was another victim, as was David … and even Cain, although granted he shouldn’t have bumped his brother off, but had God not been such an ungrateful wretch in the first place, none of it would have happened. And him all-knowing too - allegedly.

[pixie374]

That millions of people can all read exactly the same words, and come to different conclusions, shows it's purely how you wish to interpret it. Not, what it actually says.

[Peter Pedant]

if someone is gonna read a book on this ( wow ! hi tech for AB! wow again ) - can you bear in mind my old English Master?

Prophets 1
(Book #2 in the Scripture Discussion Commentary Series)
by Joseph Rhymer

thank you - we think he was set to teach us Eng Lang as a punishment for something

[Peter Pedant]

// I’ve seen the explanations and they don’t wash.//

god we are back to 'I dont read anything: I go to it with a fresh mind' - well halleluia ! - so I cant tip me aud Dean of Chapel
Anthony Phillips - God BC ? no I thought not.
whole bookie - no piccies - on how the Jews of Jesus time looked on God.
still no takers - well I did my best

[naomi24]

//god we are back to 'I dont read anything//

So it appears for you, PP, although I'm not sure you ever read anything much in the first place.

[Khandro]

As Kant said (or can't remember now, was it my granny?), "Man kann ein Pferd zum Wasser führen, aber man kann es nicht zum Trinken bringen."

Which very roughly translates as, You can bring a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

[mibn2cweus]

Maybe the horse knows something you don't about what happened upstream.

[nailit]

// For God so loved the world.//
That he chose to speak to us all all in
parables and metaphors etc.
(Well, not even all, considering that a lot of the third world is illiterate, anyway...not a great way to spread a message)
Not in any kind of straight forward way that was
understanderble either.

Not like he could say
''Hey, heres whats going to happen in 2021.
Theres this awsome plague and its going to inflict the Globe
(Yeah, the Earth is a globe man)
And its going to really divide people.
And then theres masks and stuff,
And a guy called Boris who people are going to have differnt opinions about, (And someone called Donald Trump)
Oh, and yes, theres this thing called QR codes,
And all kinds of sh** about.
Just didnt mention it all because its all self evident in my
ancient judaic prophecies.

Nah!,
Just some vague prophecy about what has always been and always will...
Hunger, war etc.