I believe you're reading way too far into this Pwcca.
Here's what you said...
As shocking as it is for you, Russ, that some people do not know the bible (and therefore, according to your own personal logic, do not know themselves)
Did I say knowing that Bible was the only way to know yourself?
No.
But I know from experience it is an excellent way, in fact, the most thorough and purging way that I've found.
Pertaining to the rest of your statements...
How can you make such blanket remarks about a book you know nothing about, and immediately after you used your same logic to ask me if I knew the effects of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature? (Do you see the contradiction of logic here?)
I don't question the beauty or effect this literature can have on a person, and I think it's great that you enjoy it, but I would ask you the question:
Does Elizabethan and Jacobean literature contain prophecies foretelling the future, or does it contain gematria?
These are important questions because the Bible claims to be inspired by God—in some cases directly and in other cases indirectly—and it contains the concept of "
authentication" to prove it.
You say much/most the Bible is not applicable today.
If Christ is telling the truth, it sure does apply today.
If Christ is going to return, it sure does apply today.
The United States was built on Biblical principles which enabled it to become the power that it was (and sadly is no longer, because those principles have been violated). The forefathers knew these principles and applied them and many have been blessed as a result. The concepts of Biblical freedom have been tested and have blessed many with true freedom.
Do you know better than the forefathers?
Could you form a more successful country than they, based on better principles, perhaps?
With all due respect, you know nothing about the Bible and you have numerous preconceived ideas about it that are simply untrue, and this is coming from someone who does know the Bible.
With all due respect, the Bible
is very pertinent today for many reasons, one being that the nature of mankind does not change which is why natural law still works. When you violate natural law however, you lead yourself into disaster, which is happening today in many nations and the fruit of which will be revealed before long.
Pwcca, I appreciate your passion, but why don't you consider reading the Bible along with your other books in an effort to explore the depths of what it can uncover?
Why all the resistance and prejudice, and sometimes hostility?
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