Looking for a Bible-Study that Focuses More on 'Real Life' than on 'Believing in Jesus-Magic'
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 11, 2020 8:37am CST
I guess that's why I like Prosperity Gospel ministries (like Kenneth Copeland Ministries & Joel Osteen Ministries ... tho I'm sure their ministries' "real names" are more church-centered, I guess 'popular culture' makes me focus more on "their leaders' names")---although there's overtones of 'greed' and 'being cheated by the ministers' etc., it does give one "a practical reason to believe" (since you don't really CARE about comfort after you die).
But I'm continually 'tempted to disagree with them' when they insist that The Bible was "written by God" (well, they might not say "God sez ..." and they'll even specify 'it was written by humans INSPIRED BY God'; but they continue to call it "God's Word," rather than 'Man's God-inspired Word' ... which is what it actually is!)
Can you find any Bible-studies that DON'T call it "God's Word," or shall I have to write/record such studies myself?
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Oct 20
Oh, 'All Scripture is breathed by God' ... "All Scripture"? including The Satanic Verses, The Q`uran, The Lotus Sutra, etc.?
Because if that Bible-quote is only talking about The Bible ... it's as believable as a politician's claims about himself.
And maybe Joel Osteen's "unworthy" or whatever, but you can't deny how rich he is!
Joel Osteen Net Worth and Salary: Joel Osteen is an American preacher, televangelist and author who has a net worth of $100 million dollars. Joel Osteen
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
13 Oct 20
@rhuenz Hmm ... good of you to follow Jesus' example, and respond to disagreeing questions with responses that don't even address the matter in question.
But I'll try to address your response: What 'milk' am I eating, to be replaced with what 'solid food'?
Or are YOU addicted to the 'milk' of The Bible, unable to digest the 'solid food' of the current state-of-The-World?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Jesus
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@rhuenz (10646)
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12 Oct 20
@mythociate
Hebrews 5:11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature,who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
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@Chellezhere (5363)
• United States
11 Oct 20
No. All Bible studies are about the Word of God. So, all Bible studies are God's words. 2 people like this
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Oct 20
Did you not read what I wrote? ... I referred to the fact that every word in The Bible was written BY HUMANS. They claim the writers were all "inspired by God"; but if a biography about you were written by a lot of your closest friends, they wouldn't call it "an autobiography."
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Oct 20
@Chellezhere In your Bible, there's a little 'copyright-credit' right in the front. Does it say 'copyright - God'?
@kanuck1 (4401)
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11 Oct 20
The Bible itself refers to itself as not the word of the human writers but as the "word of God".
1 Thessalonians 2:13 (American Standard Version) "And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us [a]the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe."
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Oct 20
as believable as a politician's claims about him self.
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