Can someone explain to me the need to speak about God in an anthropomorphic manner?
Also, why is there such a need to buy into the mythology of the Bible? Why are people so attached to it? Why are so many people Apologists, when they could simply drop the bible and still believe?
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Originally Posted by yossarian  Salvation is to realize the God within.
It(Hell) is only eternal if you choose for it to be eternal. |
These seem more like Buddhist and Hindu concepts to me. They are traditionally much more internally focused.
I realize Christianity probably gets a raw deal in this forum, many of us come in with already preconcieved notions of many Christian terms. The term God alone is a pretty loaded one. I'm thinking my problem is a linguistic one, because I have trouble seperating my own 12 years of Jesuit schooling from the very loose meaning that some people are using here. But I think that is a problem for many people here, and perhaps at large, more of a problem of the instituion teaching people inadequately or a fundamental problem of the bible itself.
Talking about Heaven and Hell and giving yourself over to god for salvation, all the anthropomorphism and loaded words, it just doesn't do the ideas behind them any justice I think.
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Originally Posted by Christian223 Ecc 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Tit 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Tit 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Tit 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. |
Like to me this was a whole lot of nothing, except a lot of anthropomorphism and an extremely poor explination. I just feel like they are almost talking in tongues on purpose, in order to confuse people, when it would be so easy to clean up the language and make it more straightforward and not open to misinterpretation.