Let's discuss the true meaning behind the Bible

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I agree with you completely.

I'm a fan of the liberation theology that came up in Latin America and Africa in the late 20th century to oppose colonialism and imperialism.

African slaves in the New World also used it in the 17th Century through the 19th which was why they were either forbidden to read the text or only given certain tracts/edited texts and sermons. Those who actually read the text and understood the messages within it were the ones who instigated rebellions.​

 

[Wildhundreds]

Think a whiteboy is going to pop out the sky and save you brehs

Absolutely nobody in this thread believes a white boy is popping out of heaven breh..

I need to know what "pushed" you to even say that?

 

[Music Fiend]

I personally don't believe it can be literal at all because of the time and date that the book took place.

Certain things don't hold the same regard.

For instance, sex before marriage or gay marriage, 2000 years ago people were married off at 14/15 to grown men. Gay was considered an evil of the spirit. Now peple might not get married until their 30s and sometimes not at all. To believe that the word is stagnant is kinda foolish to me. I also subscribe to the notion that many people are born gay, maybe not all. But theres some kids who at age 1 are drawn to certain things. So it's hard to believe witholding from intimacy (which is a learned skill) until marriage isn't destructive.

You learn to be a good friend by losing friendships, you learn to be a good partner by losing relationships, you learn to value time and life when it begins to zoom past you.

There's plenty more things I can go one about, but I think believing in the bible literally actually breeds hatred and a lack of understanding.

 

[Wildhundreds]

If I am off then explain Jesus' explanation in John 10:30-38, because he was attacked for saying the same thing that I AM saying using the same logic that you're using. Hmm.

30 I and my Father are one.

31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Im with you here breh..

Wicked man found a way to remove power from each individual, and place it into one person..

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

If I am off then explain Jesus' explanation in John 10:30-38, because he was attacked for saying the same thing that I AM saying using the same logic that you're using.

J wasn't saying the same thing you are saying, though. J was differentiating himself from those judges/magistrates who'd been 'divinely appointed' by claiming to be sent by (and one with) the one who appointed them.​

 

[Chrishaune]

If I am off ......

Your view of Psalm 82 is off....Yahweh is talking to the beings He put over the nations in the Divine Assembly in that chapter.

Yeah, if you accept Yeshua you become one of the sons of God......That doesn't have anything to do with Psalm 82. That's a unique situation happening in that text related to spiritual beings that were not created as mankind.....It tells you that by saying they will die "like" man, because they are not man.....So they were not meant to die like men.

 

[Aviso]

J wasn't saying the same thing you are saying, though. J was differentiating himself from those judges/magistrates who'd been 'divinely appointed' by claiming to be sent by (and one with) the one who appointed them.​

If that's the case, then why did the Scribes and Pharisees accuse Jesus of blasphemy? They accused him of blasphemy for saying that he is one with God or that God is within us and is the true source or Absolute power. Please understand this bro! Your light is greater than you think! Look within!

 

[Dave24]

For Rome and the Throne

Can you expound on that?

 

[Wildhundreds]

They were fairly monarchical - people today are - but the idea was another "king" to replace the present one in power.

And because it's mixed with centuries of religious belief, the early Christian church was writing of recent history, the middle centuries allowed the interpretation to stick for the empowerment of the Catholic Church, and the 19th and 20th century gave Christianity another interpretation - in the Global North it was to fight for conservatism in the Global South it was to war against the imperial powers.

Are you familiar with Rev. James H. Cone? Or Ernesto Cardinale?

Nah

After Constantine and the conquest of the knights templar, I locked in on what the goal was.. It has nothing to do with being a good christian..

The book of revelations expose it. In my estimation at least..

 

[Aviso]

Your view of Psalm 82 is off....Yahweh is talking to the beings he put over the nations in the Divine Assembly in that chapter.

Yeah, if you accept Yeshua you become one of the sons of God......That doesn't have anything to do with Psalm 82. That's a unique situation happening in that text related to spiritual beings that were not created as mankind.....It tells you that by saying they will die "like" man, because they are not man.....

You're much more powerful than you think bro! The scriptures are to empower a lost people, not to have us believe that we're under the foot of adversity. The Gospel is the good spell or God spell which is the word used to give us the strength to do all things. I AM only here to make that point understood. So please understand! Peace and blessings

 

[Paper Boi]

it's an instrument of control lol.


i'm not an atheist, but the bible doesn't posses the answers either from my experience.

 

[Chrishaune]

You're much more powerful than you think bro! The scriptures are to empower a lost people, not to have us believe that we're under the foot of adversity. The Gospel is the good spell or God spell which is the word used to give us the strength to do all things. I AM only here to make that point understood. So please understand! Peace and blessings

Get off that Hebrew Israelite stuff breh.

Understand the scripture the way it was meant to be understood by going back to the original languages.

 

[Wildhundreds]

J wasn't saying the same thing you are saying, though. J was differentiating himself from those judges/magistrates who'd been 'divinely appointed' by claiming to be sent by (and one with) the one who appointed them.​

yes he was because he quoted Psalms where it was originally written..

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

For instance, sex before marriage or gay marriage, 2000 years ago people were married off at 14/15 to grown men. Gay was considered an evil of the spirit.

The ANE reasoning behind those practices were because; people died earlier and being married made one part of a 'household'. Since ancient people were primarily nomadic and there was strength in numbers, it made sense to increase the size of your household for protection and to make food, clothing, weapons, etc. There was no Walmart back then.

Homosexuality was frowned-upon for a similar reason: two people of the same sex can't create life. Less people = your group is vulnerable to larger groups.

If you read the text, critically, you'll notice that Laws and practices changed over time. After all, the corpus covers a period of about 2,000 years. In that period, people moved from the plains into cities and went from hunter/gatherers to subsistence farmers.
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[Aviso]

Get off that Hebrew Israelite stuff breh.

Understand the scripture the way it was meant to be understood by going back to the original languages.

How is it Hebrew Israelite stuff to tell another brother to believe in himself, or to raise his own state of awareness and trust the God within? I am showing you the power that you possess. Do you not see it?