Post by Susan Peabody on Jun 5, 2020 22:23:58 GMT
I can't say this enough. Conservatives have turned the Bible into the law. The law was very important to the Jewish people in the time of Jesus. They condemned Christ for breaking the law.
They had nothing to take the place of the law until Jesus came and told them that love was more important.Henry Drummond says that we don't need the Ten Commandments if we have love, because if we have love in our heart we don't need them.
It took me awhile to figure all this out. I couldn't understand why the conservatives were telling us that the Bible was more important than anything. That he was more important than love. One person told me that I was obsessed about the concept of love. He said there's so much more to the Bible.
I had to think about this. But I decided to disagree with this person Christ died out of love for us. God is love. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to comfort us out of love for us. To me that takes precedence over words in the book.
When you tell people they are going to hell if they don't do exactly what the Bible says, you have turned it into a law.
Conservatives say that God wrote the Bible. Men, not women, wrote the Bible because they were inspired by God's love for us.
Much of the Bible is very important. But some things are just traditions like wearing veil.
I reserve the right to interpret the Bible in my own way. People died so that the average person could get their own copy of the Bible. At the time only priests were allowed to have Bibles. It was the law.
They had nothing to take the place of the law until Jesus came and told them that love was more important.Henry Drummond says that we don't need the Ten Commandments if we have love, because if we have love in our heart we don't need them.
It took me awhile to figure all this out. I couldn't understand why the conservatives were telling us that the Bible was more important than anything. That he was more important than love. One person told me that I was obsessed about the concept of love. He said there's so much more to the Bible.
I had to think about this. But I decided to disagree with this person Christ died out of love for us. God is love. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to comfort us out of love for us. To me that takes precedence over words in the book.
When you tell people they are going to hell if they don't do exactly what the Bible says, you have turned it into a law.
Conservatives say that God wrote the Bible. Men, not women, wrote the Bible because they were inspired by God's love for us.
Much of the Bible is very important. But some things are just traditions like wearing veil.
I reserve the right to interpret the Bible in my own way. People died so that the average person could get their own copy of the Bible. At the time only priests were allowed to have Bibles. It was the law.