so its no surprise that i'm not a big fan of 'religion'...there was always something about man imposed rules that bothered me...i think i always knew deep down, even as a young kiddo that it wasn't really god that made those rules-but people...people who were in positions of power like the roman constantin centuries ago, who for political reasons, decided then what roman catholicism would entail and, yes, which parts of the bible he would put in after picking and choosing only those apostles that fit his religious agenda...
...its funny how only mark, matthew, luke and john are in the bible as gospels, but there are so many others who wrote gospels, like mary magdalene and thomas who never made it in the bible...yet, they too like the others published in the bible, all had important messages to pass down..
yet another reason to lose respect for structured religion...
only few know of these hidden gospels, and their messages, which is sad since they portray a whole new viewpoint to jesus' life on earth (gnostics etc...) and that, till this day, remains unpopular...once the bible was written (which, by the way, was written 300 years after jesus died, so lots lost in translation there too), it had its first and longest lasting impact (no matter how biased it was to the interpreters and writers), leaving less room for the other gospels, even though they were and are equally important and worth studying...
...i'm not downplaying the bible and its sacred messages,(afterall, i read the whole thing from start to finish), but one shouldn't take it word for word...for one thing, there are many inconsistencies and contradictions in the bible that lead you to question what really happened...for example, when two or more apostles are talking about any given event, in one version, so and so was there, and in another version, so and so wasn't there which led to different circumstances, so you have to ask yourself and challenge the bible's validity and accuracy of events...
...its good to live by the bible, more so the bigger picture of it and jesus' messages, and not bother with the smaller details since they're just not unfortunately accurate...
where was i going with this...oh yes, i started these thoughts today because my mom questioned me about eating meat on christmas eve and how we shouldn't be doing that because of 'our' custom...i told her not to place so much emphasis on what 'man' tells you what god wants from you...and it isn't rules, laws and practices or customs, its not eat this, don't eat that, fast then, give up for 40 days, its just simply, do to others as you would have done to you...love one another...that's it, nothing else, simple stupid...
..to find god, look inside, deep deep inside and you'll find him...or, in other words...
'be still and know that i am god'
amen.
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