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Originally Posted by LadyLuck  lol that's so true, many christians tend to twist how you should 'take' the bible in order to fit their point. |
Nah, Christians LURV the Truth, it's beautiful!
That's why
in the Bible we read that Jesus's attempted miracles sometimes flopped, and that elsewhere he had temper tantrums, and that he allowed his right-hand man Peter to carry a sword, and that he said the night before his crucifixion "Oh God I don't want to die tomorrow, get me out of it"..
See, none of that's been edited out over the centuries, that's why we can trust the Bible, it says the truth straight out..
Here's more on the same theme -
JUST LIKE YOU AND ME by Mick
Jesus wasn't much to look at -"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2)
And Paul was nothing to write home about -
"For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful, but his appearance is unimpressive, and he speaks poorly" (2 Cor 10:10)
And Moses admitted to being unable to think on his feet-
"O Lord, I have never been eloquent, i'm slow of speech and tongue." (Exodus 4:10)
And Jonah was so scared he refused pointblank to be a prophet -
"Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish." (Jonah 1:3)
And Jeremiah said - "Lord i'm no good at speaking, i'm too young and people won't take me seriously" (Jer 1:6)
And Jesus said "Oh God I don't want to die tomorrow, get me out of it if you can" (Matt 26:42)
The moral of all this? - many Biblical people were as ordinary as you and me..