potty wrote:lol

Exactly. Like an overly-indulged western teenager.

stroppy... im not sure, but i think you claim to be a christian...

sadly, you dont have a fucking... and thats very obvious...

alone - in the other thread - saying to not oppose suicide, and then even asking for "references" takes the bisquit..

suicide doesnt even have to be specifically "named" in the bible, as it contradicts the whole meaning and sense of the bible - of god to be precise.

potty wrote: -some drivel that s/he can't support-

I understood from your first post tonight that you're bored and baiting, like a little troll - you aren't responding to what's posted, you're just attention-whoring. The simple reality is that you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, and so it's a waste of keystrokes entertaining your idiocy.

you are a bully... but such a coward one...

interesting, that something like you "became" a christian... at some point...

the only one, not answering anything, is you... as usual...

you never know anything and you cant even get into an interesting debate.
not even for that you have the knowledge.

Stroppster sure does like to bandy the word "WHORE" around a lot to people who don't share his belief in big big sky man.

Anyway, I'd rather reject Babylon system altogether (soon dem a seh Hailie Selassie was a white man, like dem do te Jesus Christ, by di work offa di Roman).

Praise Emmanuel I, Garvey I, Selassie I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Everliving, ever faithful ever sure. Jah! Rastafari!

At least man smoke lamb's bread, have good tunes and a big G who was real. For an unbeliever, Spooner be nuff big a reggae/dancehall fan.....

Interesting thread.

What is Religion, and what's the point of it? As far as i'm concerned it's an attempt to explain the unexplainable, an attempt to create some kind of framework that is supposed to serve as a correct way to live our lives correctly.

The Bible has been interpreted in so many different manners it's hard to get a decent understanding of it, the same can be said of Buddhism, with it's many variants.

If we just look at it as minimally as possible, we get a kind of spiritual self help book, and a load of unintelligable stuff that can be used for many centuries to confuse people, and keep them servile to the capitalist niches' of the Religion industry.

At the end of the day we are all expressions of the divine, and through living and interacting in this life we will continuously learn to appreciate our own divinity, that of others, and this world in which we live in. You cannot fit that real life experience into any box or religious concept, it's free flowing and formless.

Humans are stubborn and constantly learning from their experiences, life is constantly changing, so there is an eternaty of learning ahead for us beings. That is true 'religion', that is called 'living'. We are here for a purpose, and we must attempt to accomplish our divine essence in the way we conduct our spiritual selves in this world which is inseperable form us and everything that is.

5 Stories Everyone Assumes Are In The Bible (But Aren't)

Considering the fact that the Christian Bible is the most popular book in human history, it's surprising how little people know about what's actually in it. Or maybe not -- it's a complicated text compiled over thousands of years, and it's as long as the first five Harry Potter novels combined. Even for an expert, there's a lot in there to process ... and a vast ocean of stuff that isn't in there.

You see, as we've discussed, a whole lot of the stories and characters people associate with the Bible were actually cobbled together from centuries of pop culture and garbled readings of the original. Go grab a Bible from your bookshelf or your nearest hotel nightstand, and you won't find ...

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5 Stories Everyone Assumes Are In The Bible (But Aren't)

Not everyone. It is kind of interesting though how poorly read most of the population is. They may never have read it but think they know how is should be interpreted and exactly what's wrong with it.

I was expecting hell to be on that list. I haven't read the bible, nor was I raised Christian, so I don't claim to be an expert, but a lot of the more literal interpretations I've heard leaves hell out (maybe Jehovah's Witnesses?). Can any Christian or knowledgeable people shed some light?

MekongMouse wrote:I was expecting hell to be on that list. I haven't read the bible, nor was I raised Christian, so I don't claim to be an expert, but a lot of the more literal interpretations I've heard leaves hell out (maybe Jehovah's Witnesses?). Can any Christian or knowledgeable people shed some light?

It's not surprising that liberal/alternative 'Christian' organisations leave out Hell - it's a pretty hard concept to deliver.

Hell is most definitely a feature of the Christian bible, without question. What is questioned is how each translation describes Hell. Some refer to Hell as 'a dark place', 'a gloomy place', 'pits of darkness', 'a place of separation' and fewer refer to 'the lake of fire'. Others again just refer to returning to the grave. Also, different authors of the books of the Bible use different imagery. In writing the last book, Revelation, Paul gave an account of a vision of the burning lakes of sulphur as he saw it.

It's not unsurprising that translations completed at different times sound different - each translation is based on theological understandings of the current time. This is why the King James Version is full of thees, thy's and thou's - those are solely related to the spoken English of the day and have absolutely no bearing on the actual intent of the scriptures... which is why modern translations don't use them.

Note that many people's view of Hell (whether athiest or not) is based on Dante's Inferno, a 14th Century theatre piece - many will swear this is biblically accurate but it's far from it. It's commonly thought that this understanding at that time led to how some of the KJV was interpreted.

Newer translations such as the New Living Translation are actually taken from the original Hebrew and Greek texts and re-worked from scratch to ensure they are not clouded by previous errors in translation or affected by previous thinking or understanding. Many people believe there is one linear progression of the Bible from the Council of Nicaea through to today, with each version being based on the previous one - this is not the case. It is precisely because there's a difference in the original Hebrew between "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not murder" (which is the correct interpretation) that it is important for the translators to work from the originals, and not from translations that have been done in previous centuries.

If you want some specific references from the Bible about Hell, check out http://www.biblestudytools.com/topical- ... le-verses/