Favorite Biblical figure besides Jesus
Reikistar wrote:
Job as I understand that swallowed by whale feeling and having everything in life taken away. I admire his faith.
You should actually read a Bible someday.Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Job had everything taken away.
Both of these people had books in the Bible that were named after them.
Reikistar wrote:
Job as I understand that swallowed by whale feeling and having everything in life taken away. I admire his faith.
i Understand what You Mean; You Appreciate the Stories of Job and Jonah, And You appreciate the story of Job the Most.
Sadly, Not Everyone is Able to Interpret What People Mean; In Other Words, to 'Read Between the Lines.'
Oh By the Way, Welcome to the PPR Forum On Wrong Planet; New Member, Your Opinion Is Welcome here.
And This is a Major Problem With All Religions; Worrying More About the Names of the Idols
Folks Worship; Mostly Missing the Messages Entailed in Deep Metaphorical Stories
That Have Important Lessons in Life in Stories That Are Worth Taking
the Time to Discuss and Understand; Additionally, Coming to Terms
With the FACT, They Are Very Human Stories Expressing the
DarK and LiGHT Parts of the Human Condition; Ranging
From Forgiveness, Mercy; Yes, Understanding and Love
to the Horrid Parts of Human Nature That Would Wish a Force
Beyond us to Unleash Bears to Maul Children who Call Us 'Baldy';
Or to Offer Up Virgin Daughters to Rape Instead to the Gang Outside that
Desires to Rape the Male Inside Who is Currently Being Protected From Harm.
Wow, The Human Condition,
Blessed With Potentials of Co-Creating
Nightmares and Dreams and Putting them into
Stories that actually Sadly Reflect What Folks Have
Done Through HiStory And Still Now in Some Countries Still DO
Where Acid is Poured Over the Face of Child Brides With Insufficient
Dowries or if they Don't Wear the Appropriate Clothes; Or For Instance,
In Saudi Arabia, Where not too Long Ago, Lesbian Women Were Covered to
Their Chests By Dirt And Stoned To Death for their Natural Variances in Sexual Orientation.
Has That Ended Here; Hell No, As In Texas, by Direction of Evangelistic Christianity Mixed
With Political Support, Legislation Provides Protection of Rapist Daddy's, Insuring The Evil of
Their Raping Act Towards Their Young Daughters May Always Exist Past the First 6 Weeks of Existence
Now
Which Means
The Daughter
Gets to Suffer the
Rape of the Father By
Carrying the Fetus of that
Evil Act or Another Violent Rapist
if the Pregnancy is Not Aborted By the Sixth
Week Where A Young Girl May Not Understand
What's Going
on with Her
Body Enough
or Get the Help
She Needs to End
Her Mental Anguish
And Pain For the Rape
that Has Been Done to Her
By Those She Should Be Able to
Trust the Most or the Stranger on the Street;
The Violence
is the Same
Toward Will
And Freedom of Being Human
As That Relates to the Rest of Human
Reproductive Rights; As that Relates to the
Rights of Kindergarten Age Through Third Grade
Civil Rights too in A World That Acknowledges Reality too
As Science
Based and
Natural As Well
in Age Appropriate Learning;
Yes, the Bible, A Mixed And
Matched Variety of Scripts
of Stories Copy and Pasted Together Over
Centuries, CoverS A Whole Lot of the Human Condition
From the Joyful Parts to Real Evil of Those We Should Be able to Trust Most...
i Wonder if 'Jesus' Could Be Real And Could Really Be Here Now; By Story At Least, Who He Would
Appreciate the Most, if No one Knew His Name, Yet Actually Remembered And Understood the
Best Lessons He gave
AND PUT THEM INTO ACTION.
-NoBody ImporTant...
Yawn, It's The Human Condition, in A
Book, Born on Date And Nurtured As Such...
Yawn, It's Not the First or Last 'Bible' of Humankind... BY FAR....
So-Called, Jesus By Story of Matthew Wasn't Perfect Either;
Lost His Patience And Judged Those Folks Who Failed to
Do Good to Burn Forever in Torture; What A Gaslighted
Reality
When the
God of The
Beatitudes
Ends Up As
The Devil in Torture
of Humanity With Never
Ending Non-Forgiveness and Non-Mercy and Non-Love;
It's True if 'Christ' is Unconditional Love For All, We Will Find 'Anti-Christ'
By So-called
Ghost Authors, According to the Name of Matthew As Not So Well Either...
At Least for
Those Who
Read the Story
And Understand
That Trademark 'Jesus' and 'God'
Are Rather Flawed Characters;
No Different than the Quran,
Placing More Value on Men than Women too...
No Different Than Any Story That May Be Improved Next Now
With Characters With Greater Unconditionally Loving Human Potentials
Expressed As Well...
And Best
Forth Put Into
Action FOR REAL NOW...
Anyway, That's/This is my 'One Cent Worth'
for the Day on the 'Wrong Planet,' So Far at Least, hehe..
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Reikistar wrote:
Job as I understand that swallowed by whale feeling and having everything in life taken away. I admire his faith.
You should actually read a Bible someday.Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Job had everything taken away.
Both of these people had books in the Bible that were named after them.
Ah sorry for any offence. I have read the Bible but not for years. I have the Bible app on my phone but tend to focus on the New Testament. It was Job I was referring to as I remember the conversation between God and Satan and how Job's faith was tested. I just confused Job with Jonah being swallowed up as I liked that story too. I'm really tired atm so my brain isn't firing on all cylinders.
aghogday wrote:
Reikistar wrote:
Job as I understand that swallowed by whale feeling and having everything in life taken away. I admire his faith.
i Understand what You Mean; You Appreciate the Stories of Job and Jonah, And You appreciate the story of Job the Most.
Sadly, Not Everyone is Able to Interpret What People Mean; In Other Words, to 'Read Between the Lines.'
Oh By the Way, Welcome to the PPR Forum On Wrong Planet; New Member, Your Opinion Is Welcome here.
And This is a Major Problem With All Religions; Worrying More About the Names of the Idols
Folks Worship; Mostly Missing the Messages Entailed in Deep Metaphorical Stories
That Have Important Lessons in Life in Stories That Are Worth Taking
the Time to Discuss and Understand; Additionally, Coming to Terms
With the FACT, They Are Very Human Stories Expressing the
DarK and LiGHT Parts of the Human Condition; Ranging
From Forgiveness, Mercy; Yes, Understanding and Love
Thank you for this and yes, appreciate both stories and just got the two momentarily confused.
I'm really interested in spirituality and see the stories as a metaphor for something deeper so yes, I don't always remember the specifics
Thank you for the welcome
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Reikistar wrote:
aghogday wrote:
Reikistar wrote:
Job as I understand that swallowed by whale feeling and having everything in life taken away. I admire his faith.
i Understand what You Mean; You Appreciate the Stories of Job and Jonah, And You appreciate the story of Job the Most.
Sadly, Not Everyone is Able to Interpret What People Mean; In Other Words, to 'Read Between the Lines.'
Oh By the Way, Welcome to the PPR Forum On Wrong Planet; New Member, Your Opinion Is Welcome here.
And This is a Major Problem With All Religions; Worrying More About the Names of the Idols
Folks Worship; Mostly Missing the Messages Entailed in Deep Metaphorical Stories
That Have Important Lessons in Life in Stories That Are Worth Taking
the Time to Discuss and Understand; Additionally, Coming to Terms
With the FACT, They Are Very Human Stories Expressing the
DarK and LiGHT Parts of the Human Condition; Ranging
From Forgiveness, Mercy; Yes, Understanding and Love
Thank you for this and yes, appreciate both stories and just got the two momentarily confused.
I'm really interested in spirituality and see the stories as a metaphor for something deeper so yes, I don't always remember the specifics
Thank you for the welcome
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Smiles, Thanks, Very Welcome Indeed..
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Roboshu wrote:
Thomas I think. He was prepared to stand out from the crowd and speak honestly. He’s often seen in terms of having a lack of faith but for me I think doubt it part of faith. It’s a (good) struggle!
When The Disciples said to Thomas "We have seen The Lord", Thomas of course expressed his skepticism and said back, "We saw The Lord hung up on a cross, end of story!"
But several days later of course, Jesus appeared before everyone (and Thomas was with them) and Jesus said, "Hello Thomas", IMO, when Thomas said "My Lord & My God", it was Thomas' way of saying, "Okay, what was I thinking?"
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