[PsiCop;28018][noeticcenter;27969]It is a question of AUTHORITY. These Sri Sri's have their RIGHT to beleive what they want. But, they have NO AUTHORITY to do that. It is their flimsy, sleazy fancies, probably psychedelics related since most of them are on sub-nutritional proetein deficient diets of psychedelic natural produce. Also their habitat of higher elevation with less oxygen (rarified) and more ozone content
adds to the delirium. All the same, they are by and large extremely honest, decent and sincere folks of learning especially in Sanskrit, and ardent seekers with ahimsa (non-violence) almost encoded into their genome.
Still as the Prophet Isaiah (Is. chapter 17 vs 9) around 800 BC spoke: " The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.." People can trust every human fancy, but not the AUTHORITY of the OT & NT Scriptures!!
Actually, the Scriptures have no "AUTHORITY" as history. They are examplars of ancient belief, nothing more. They were certainly NOT written by credentialed historians and therefore CANNOT rationally be taken as "history" as we know it.
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Noetic Response
April 25, 08
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Bible: Purported Flaws
In all these comments there is a fundamental error of judging the Bible- a collection of books penned by over 40 writers of diverse backgrounds of priests, prophets, princes, poets, philosophers, physicians, farmers, fishermen, government officials and so on, in three different continents over a period of about 3,500 years- for what it does not stand for and totally ignoring what it essentially schematize. It is NOT a book of science, or philosophy or psychology or astronomy or law or morals or ethics or religion, though occasionally it does refer to all these accurately and reliably.
The central subject of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation is ONE SINGULAR PERSON – the Messiah. The central mission of the Messiah is REDEMPTION. The WAY of Redemption is the same in the Old and the New Testaments. To be effective, a testament involves the death of the Testator. The DEATH here is from the JUDGMENT of ‘Capital Punishment’. The Judgment is pronounced by the Creator Testator on a WILLFULLY rebellious creation. The Creator Testator takes the judgment upon Himself. The judgment is CANCELLED for ever through the RESURRECTION of the Creator Testator, to those who WILLINGLY accept it. Now, this is the Bible. It is in representative forms in the Old and the actualities in the New Testaments.
Note: A substitute term for Testament is Blood Covenant. Covenant alone will not do it.
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