Re: The BIBLE is for IDIOTS
Zook, As I see it, both science and faith have their shortcomings and neither can prove truth, for what is not of truth is uncertainty of it. The reason I began to study the Bible many, many moons ago was not to become religious or even to gain ''faith", but to simply know if TRUTH is to be found in that book. What I have found is that you can believe what you want, but it all means nothing unless you have an unforgettable
experience with that which you seek. It's like internet dating...you can fall in love with someone and not have a clue who they really are...unless you actually meet them.
As I read and read a terrible translation of the Bible years ago, I began to connect some dots. Enough dots to get ''attention'' from a reality I have never know of. Things began to happen in my life even the next day. I felt kind of like Frodo when he put the ring on. No, I didn't do drugs. My entire world turned upside down and I even met a life form that literally scared the bejeebees out of me. And that wasn't just then, for I have had supernatural things happen to be since...including being dead.
It's all kind of like the UFO scene. You have probably never ''experienced'' one, so you can only go by what you have heard. Well, once you have actually seen one up close and personal, you will never be stuck with having a mere ''opinion'', for you will have tasted the reality of it. From there of course, you have to try and connect a different set of dots. We never seem to have a shortage of those ''dots'', do we.