Do you think too much Bible reading causes blindness to life or drug abuse?
441650
yes Christianity made me very depressed as well. whats with these people? are the mindless zombies or what? scary! and i thought zombies were not real until i meet chat Christians *shudders* no telling what they will do. they might attack or try to convert me which is just as bad
971641
LOL no.  :o) It is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than a rich person to get into heaven. Which means we must be willing to give it all up for Jesus.  You know, that would be not fun at all, but I'd do it. I really, really like my home and everything in it, but as long as I had my family and my Bible (to glean hope from the Scriptures), I would muddle through. I hope I never have to do that. I REALLY hope I never have to do that.  :o)
115961
I beleive you have somewhat of a good point....the parables of the Bible and the lessons of Aesop's Fables do seem to have a common thread. In both there exists a message of right verses wrong, the consequences of evil acts and the rewards of decent behavior. Is it any wonder that both have endured the test of time even til this day....~~~
682487
I walk in the faith that the Bible is a load of codswallup. Especially concerning the parlor tricks of the New Testiment. 1Peter 2-24 included.\n\n-SD-
794372
Well back in the day, and I know this comment is going to offend people. But my husband used the bible as rolling papers for his \n"recreational smoking" They work perfectly!!!!  LOL
1163209
Yes it may be special to some but not to all.\nI think a Dictionary would be sold and read more often then a bible but I could be wrong.\nNot everyone is a believer in the Bible. \nAfter all we believe in what we must. \nThat's why, we where all born with free will.\nTo have an open mind I think God would appreciate it more then someone that closed down to one book and lived their life by that book.\nAnd with the amount of hypocrites in the world that is enough to turn people away from the Holy Bible\n\nWe are all here to experience and develop ourselves.\n\nLove & Blessings \nMilly
149306
Absolutely.  Read the bible and then watch people try to dispute it.  If you don't read it first you will think they know everything when they are actually lying to the world.
994244
The Bible is not the silver bullet, of course. I do believe in God and in Jesus's ressurection, however, there are parts of the Bible that sound like pure nonsense to me while other parts contain great, true wisdoms everyone should live by.
865845
Dear ES,\n\nI agree with you and I enjoy reading it and giving away copies of the Bible.\n\nLong before I read the Bible from cover-to-cover I intended to re-write the Bible and take out all of the sexist language.  What a joke that was!  When I finally read it I didn't change it but it sure did change me!\n\nOne wonderful thing I noticed was that I had the feeling that it was written directly to me, even though I know it was written long before I was born.  It reminds me of looking at a photograph when it seems as though the subject is looking right back at you.\n\nEven though there have been several translations of the Bible they all say just about the same thing.  However I've seen a few that are not divinely inspired and there is no sense of the Living Word of God.\n\nYes, it is fascinating to look at the prophecies and realize that Jesus was the only person who ever had his biography written before He was born!
534264
It is difficult for me to believe in anything I can't see, for one.  I just don't buy into all of the stories the Bible says.  Stories written by regular men.  Men, who are subject to lie and manipulate.  And the bible itself is a translation and we all know what happens when you try to translate text.  Some things don't even have an equivalent in our language and so, the person who translates does their best, in their opinion, to find the closest meaning which could mean, not the same at all.  And it is more than the bible.  It is history that I doubt and religion is a sort of history.  It has been proven countless times that man in his greedy attempts for power will do anything, including omitting the truth or changing it, to get what they want.  Then, I also look at life and death.  I wonder why if there is a God, why do good people die.  And it simply doesn't make sense that it is just God's plan.  Especially, when nothing but pain comes from it.  Take a newborn's death upon delivery.  Why?  What could be God's plan?  Some might say that God took the child becuase it would have suffered later.  But then why not make it his plan to just not give it an illness?  If the lesson is for the mother...isn't that just cruel?  And why kill a baby to teach a mother a lesson?  God created intricate human bodies and watches as these humans destroy all that God created?  I could go on forever.  It is why I am atheist.  I just feel that people need hope and faith.  They need something to justify certain things.  Some people need guidelines and discipline they cannot find within themselves.  Death is the reason, in my opinion, we have religion.  It is hard to accept the why and what happens next.  But easy to say, well they are in a better place...Just me.
919652
Yes.  that is why we are to watch and be prepared.  The Bible says to be sober.  This means clear-minded.  To be clear-minded you have to be in Christ.
28890
The total of the reading which I have done in this particular bible amounts to somehwre between 35 and 45 times for The New Teastament and about 11 times for the Old Testament.  This does not count looking up some very small specific sections in the Old Testament, perhaps the best part of 1000 times.\n\nI read in quest of spiritual truths and continued after making great progress, but not necessarily by way of the Bible, although it greatly helped.  God can answer your questions in many ways not involving more Bible reading.  The best Answers from God apply to your place in the NOW.\n\nI have a blog if this sounds interesting:\n\nhttp://www.spaces.msn.com/members/up-escalator
702940
EXCELLENT point!  Wow, I've never thought of that.\n\nReminds me of this verse that always creeped me out when I was a christian.  2 Thes. 2 :11   And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie\n\nSeems kinda odd to have god up there trying to trip us up.  The big guy needs to up his meds.  Bi-polar disease is no laughing matter god!
149426
which bible do u mean? I think u people have got many bibles...and y would u care about the "number" while nobody cares about following the bible by NOT committing this deadly sin (adultery)
149960
Obviously. A bible is like a bubonic plauge virus. As an object, it is nothing. But under the right conditions, it has the power to destoy millions, even billions of lives.
742993
I think that this is the biggest problem with Christianity.  If you take the whole bible literally, than you aren’t making any logical sense, but it you take parts of it metaphorically than you have to pick and chose which parts to take seriously.\n\nIt’s all pretty self-serving if you ask me.
709041
Well as far as the Bible I read it and I take it literally.  If I don't understand it I read the Strong's concordance. Whether it be in Hebrew or the Arabic translation, I read the translation and then understand it better. As far as the judging part I think we all do it one time of or another. It's wrong and we shouldn't do it, as we know. Being intolerable, again we all are one time or another, even unbelievers.  The ones who don't believe do think and criticize us a lot when we do human things, like judge, intolerance, gossip, or any other sin they can catch us in because it makes them feel better and possibly superior.  If we were perfect, we would be Jesus!