08-02-2009, 02:46 AM
Quote:Hi Steve,
It seems to me like a roundabout way of saying that whatever is written in the Bible isnt really all that important. What do you have it for anyway? A prop? If you just want to rely on feelings and 'life experiance' and the like what is the importance of the Bible at all then? What would be the <b>importance</b> of any particular religion at all for that matter??
Sorry for interjecting, but that just threw me.
Of course it is important, but it is useless if you don't understand it.
A tool is a tool in the hand of a skilled craftsman, but it is a weapon in the hand of the Devil.
The 'importance' of all religions is exactly the same: to bring us closer together with one another and with God.
I don't expect a child to be a crafts-person, but I do expect adults to be.
As parents, we are teachers. Bigotry and error is passed from generation to generation as easily as the Spirit.
The standard is similar for those called to Holy Orders.
Quote:James 3:1
Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
A 'prop' is a funny way of putting it, given the theater of worship. People go to movies and sporting events and sit passively, and like industrial man working at a machine, they labor in a mindless slumber. The ballgame always ends the same way; one person wins and another loses. In the movies, the good guy wins and the bad guy loses. Rote becomes a ritual, too.
People pray when they should act, and act when they should pray. Pray and prey always seem to be mixed up.