Nator writes:
Coca Cola has been spread worldwide, too, you know. Does that mean Coca Cola is important?
Coca-Cola is a commercial product. In many cases, the Bible is given away. While Religion is, unfortunately, also often commercialized, the good book itself seems to be distributed quite freely and indiscriminately.
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It is also a best-seller.
Nator writes:
2) The reason people have "gone to all the trouble" to spread it worldwide is because the people who believe it is supernatural in origin also believe that it is important to spread it worldwide.
While commercialized religion has been full of fraud and misrepresentation, there is also indeed a lot of average people who have been changed by the message of this book and by the character
behind the book--namely Jesus Christ.
That being said, I believe that it is wise to question the book, and I do not believe that everything contained therein is
word for word literal. I DO personally believe that Jesus Christ lives today in a manner unlike other historical figures and/or characters.
Nator writes:
1) It may or may not be important.
I am reminded of what the Gideons put inside the front jacket of the Bibles that they
give away without charge or strings attached:
The Bible contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you.
It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword, and the Christian's charter. Here Paradise is restored, Heaven opened, and the gates of hell disclosed.
Christ is its grand subject, our good the design, and the glory of God its end.
It should fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet. Read it slowly, frequently, and prayerfully. It is a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory, and a river of pleasure. It is given you in life, will be opened at the judgment, and be remembered forever. It involves the highest responsibility, will reward the greatest labor, and will condemn all who trifle with its sacred contents.
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Convictions are very different from intentions. Convictions are something God gives us that we have to do. Intentions are things that we ought to do, but we never follow through with them.* * * * * * * * * *
“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.”--General Omar Bradley
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Homer Simpson: Sometimes, Marge, you just have to go with your gut!
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