At some point, it has to be okay for people to know that the Bible wasn't written by God. God doesn't write things down on paper. God writes in the sky, in the ocean, on the Earth. God writes history as it happens, before it happens, and after it happens because God makes things happen. People write words down, people assume that the unexplainable is the will of God and the explainable is not. People decide that science and God are different, that mathematics are technical and therefore not holy. God writes DNA, not prose. Divine insperation is the source of all art and knowledge but that doen't mean that all of the works of Man can be called divine. Why is it okay to say that God wrote the Bible but not to say that God painted the Mona Lisa? The word of God is not in a book Idren, the word of God is in your heart. If God wants to tell you something, God simply tells you something. God doesn't write you a letter. King David, Jesus the Christ, even His Majesty Himself were no different than you or I, they spoke to God and God spoke back. Try it and see if it doesn't work for you too. Jesus the Christ refered to himself as the Son of Man, it was certain disciples who labeled him the son of God. Yes, know your Bible but also know yourself and know your God. If you engage in dialog with God you will never have to question what is true and what is false. You will never wonder what kind of god God is, you will know. You will find yourself in a constant state of knowing, this is the great works that Jesus spoke of. Knowing that God is inside of you as God is inside of me and inside of every plant and every being, every element and every drop of rain. To conquer death one must know that death is an Earthly state of being that simply does not exist for celestrial bodies. You are a visitor in a vessel, matter can not be created or destroyed. Matter can be converted into energy by fire, life cannot exist without heat. Matter is life is energy is fire. You can burn a book but you cannot burn a story. What did people do before the Bible? How can rightiousness be wirtten about if it is based on the book it is written in. You know right from wrong because it is written in your heart, on your soul, in your spirit; not because the Bible tells you so. The Bible is a tool. Just as a hammer cannot build a house, a book can tell you a story about a man but it can not create a living being.
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