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In Reply to: Re: Women in the Family posted by MG on July 29, 2004 at 09:30:01:
of course that the Bible has been misused...TFpeople weren't the first ones in the misuse...historians are in the know about all that..
When I used suspect instead of a maybe better word, I meant: I have the feeling...From my point of view it's at least wrong to blame Berg or any other authors for just quoting the Bible - even if they had used their own words - when people have a problem rather with that verse or chapter... & of course many times with his or their interpretations.Then people should just honestly state: I have a problem with that part of the Bible and consequently with person xyz for believing in it & still using that...
And I found that sometimes even guys like Berg,like the blind chicken, find a "corn"...hit the truth...Roll ye away the stone is e.g., according to my memory not really a bad sermon, you probably find something similar in devotional calendars...however, I don't have a "churchy" background.
I felt in reading comments - especially at movingon, but also elsewhere - that people got somtimes infuriated about the sillyness of people/believers, taking this or that literal or believing in it...in that way I figure it has not always to do with the sillyness of Berg or many others, but that for right now, several people also can't swallow what's written in that "Old Book"...
I read John 6 today again ; we know that Jesus' speech there caused people to turn away from Him.
So it's not new anyways...what I am against is the using of people, authors, writers as scapegoats, when actually some want to say: Paul was nuts, teaching this & that...or John or...
What I like is fairness & correctness.
Whether people can/should believe in the Bible or not is not mine to judge.
(and yes, there are many agnostics with really super personality-traits...I know some too...
Believers aren't better--by themselves--they have it better.)
