The_Liquid_Laser
Glowy Goopy Goodness
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Liquid, Jesus' message was pretty darn clear if you ask me... I worry that giving too much significance to the Bible very often leads to people spending far too much time trying to decode what it's on about and reconciling the inconsistencies, at the expense of actually living the Gospel ... when you think that people like St Francis, who wasn't educated and didn't study theology or even read the Bible that much, became completely at one with God, I just can't imagine why someone would prefer to take such a circuitous route, one which so often leads people right up the garden path :/
I tend to think that people should spend as much time pondering the Bible as they like. If some want to read a little that is fine, and if some want to study a lot then that is good too. Although they've shown that a person's behavior is more likely to be affected if the person accepts the Bible as an authority. It's not really the amount of time that matters as much as the impact one allows the scripture to have on their life.