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A Minimalist Bible

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10-05-2013 5:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by GDR
10-05-2013 12:53 PM

How User Friendly Is This Bible?
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The topic would assume the theistic position, and that God is represented by a consistent, just and loving intelligence, with a sense of morality based on the Golden Rule, and that this is also the model of what it is that He wants us to image.
Personally, I can't imagine relating to GOD without Jesus. How minimalist is this proposed Bible? A few more questions---
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1) Are people basically good-basically "fallen" or a combination of the two?
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2) Do humans by nature want a God?(assuming they could be gently persuaded that One is possible)?
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10-09-2013 6:34 PM 		Reply to: Message 26 by New Cat's Eye
10-09-2013 4:08 PM

Inspiration
Being inspired by God means that it comes from Him and not from our own vain imaginations.
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10-09-2013 6:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 22 by Stile
10-09-2013 2:10 PM

Re: Importance requires validity
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Sure, it could be from God, as you say.
Sure, it could be from the more-powerful-being that is holding God captive, as you neglect.
Sure, it could be from humans without any intervention from God at all, as you neglect.
Sure, it could be from some other animal we have yet to understand, as you neglect.
I believe that human nature always seeks to be the "more-powerful being.
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Anything that we don't understand is by definition something that we humans can't control. It is in our nature to deny God precisely because we cant control Him.
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