(January 2, 2014 at 2:20 pm)Drich Wrote:Yeah, yeah. The point is, if the bible is written to bring people to God, then it must be written in human terms, not some arcane incomprehensible language where up does not mean up.(January 2, 2014 at 12:54 pm)xpastor Wrote: Drich, answer this simple question.Neither.
Do you think God wrote the bible for the benefit of humans, or humans wrote the bible for the benefit of God?
God used people to write the bible so people who wanted to connect to God would be able to do so.
In the end it is not an 'either or' because both benfit.
In other words, in Acts 1 up means up. Anyway you slice it or dice it, the bible represents Jesus floating up in the direction of the stratosphere, but we now know there is no stopping point out there. The people in his time did not know this.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
