GreatestIam
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I agree with your first, stupid.Holy spirit inspired men wrote the bible-- i know 10 year olds who knows this fact. Do you? We can see who actually is the name you call in your lack of love.
You have not been reading what I put. As a Gnostic Christian, I give the bible it's due.
It is a great consolidation and rehash of most of the thinking systems of the day, and showed it's worth as a naturalistic, not stupidly supernatural, religion.
Things were off to a great start before stupid people started to read the myths literally.
I hope you can see how intelligent the ancients were as compared to the mental efforts that modern preachers and theists are using with the literal reading of myths.
What is God?
Further.
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
Rabbi Hillel, the older contemporary of Jesus, said that when asked to sum up the whole of Jewish teaching, while he stood on one leg, said, "The Golden Rule. That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the Torah. And everything else is only commentary. Now, go and study it."
Please listen as to what is said about the literal reading of myths.
"Origen, the great second or third century Greek commentator on the Bible said that it is absolutely impossible to take these texts literally. You simply cannot do so. And he said, "God has put these sort of conundrums and paradoxes in so that we are forced to seek a deeper meaning."
Matt 7;12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
This is how early Gnostic Christians view the transition from reading myths properly to destructive literal reading and idol worship.
Regards
DL