Thank you for the exchange.
Coragyps writes:
Some of the moral teachings in the NT are wonderful - as good as the teachings in religions like Bhuddism, for example.
I agree with lots of them.
lol - was just tellin' someone this same thing.
But to go back to the OP, "Is there anything divine in the Bible?" I'll say No. There's nothing divine anywhere.
After the Jesus satisfied the intellect of the Sadducees, some other religious kooks got together ...
One of them, an expert in 'the law', tested Him ...
So they sez to the guy, "Rabbi, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
The Jesus replied ...
'
Love the God with all your might and with all your being and with all your mind.
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it;
Love your neighbor as yourself.'
This Love the Jesus spoke in reference to was an unconditional Love that most all ignored.
Even today, most of His emulators, and counterfeiters, walk around with 10 commandments, instead of these two.
Some enjoy working harder, not smarter.
The present opinion finds it hard to believe much strife would permeate reality if these two bits of Truth were continuously employed by us all.
How is divine defined?
One Love
Edited by Bailey, : spelling
Mercy Trumps Judgement,
Love Weary
The Apostle of the Skeptics writes:
"...picture me alone in that room ... night after night, feeling ... the steady, unrelenting approach of Him
whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me."
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