Who is really in charge of inspiration?

Lets assume, for a moment, that humans are influenced by words, sentences, and paragraphs that are able to convey a principle, a concept or a law in the form of a story, a parable, or narration of an actual historical event.Given these guidelines, I can apply the Bible as a lesson in any way that I wish. I can tell you that the book is divinely inspired and that the SOURCE of this inspiration is God Himself. I can also do as others suggest and examine the CONTENT of the lesson and the CONTEXT and social setting preceding such lesson to give additional considerations to the INTENTION of the lesson.Concerning good and evil, I feel that the overall lesson being taught is that obeying or conforming to good requires empathy, refutation of selfishness or greed, and oftentimes sacrifice. Evil, on the other hand, is simply actualization and pursuit of power regardless of the harm it may cause to others.

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how do you tell who really inspired that scripture?

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I believe that WE are responsible for how we interpret the scripture.

Rule#3: If uncomfortable, split from Catholic Church and declare the inspiration as originating from the scriptures rather than the guy in charge. For some, belief in a living and active God comforts them, thus they attribute their own inspiration as coming directly from Him. I maintain that we are still responsible how we apply the inspiration.Edited by Phat, : No reason given.

I agree that we have a propensity to do evil...just look at the history of humanity regarding wars.We also have the ability to recognize good, in my opinion. Its just hard to do because it is often sacrificial. (Giving away spare change when you have nothing saved for retirement)

True enough, but if we got rid of religion we would not eradicate the propensity for evil. Switch "Invisible Friend" with "Will Of The People".

I steered your question into another thread. We can pick up that argument there. To reiterate this topic: We faithful do not nor cannot know, in the strict definition of the word.We are responsible for our own actions, regardless of whether the inspiration came from the clouds, a bottle, or Mom.

Most of the churches that I have belonged to have stressed that the Bible was inerrant. (without error) but having participated in and observing many arguments to the contrary, I cant accept this as true without blind faith. The problem then becomes IF the book has errors, how do we know that anything we believe is true? Upon further reflection, I concluded that we don't know. And I concluded that it is ok not to know, as long as one trusts that God knows and is living and active. THAT one I wont be throwing away in the forseeable future.

According to dogma, the serpent was incapable of truth, IF he was in fact Satan.

Who is us?