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What I find Paul and so many others doing is being involved in what I call book-worship. People like these view their holy-books as being so holly, that they live in fear of learning anything else and anything that is not in their holy-book must be bad or wrong. Just the fact that Paul has even told me that ALL I need is the bible and that I don’t need anything else tells me just how much he worships his holy book. I see that Paul is doctrine oriented instead of being oriented with the condition of the heart. People like these follow their doctrines and anyone who disagrees with them will be destroyed. They don’t follow the doctrines because it is a matter of the heart, they do it because it is a matter of law. It reminds me of a quote in the bible at mark 7:7 where it states: They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. From this I see that people don’t know why they believe in what they do. I can even see that Paul doesn’t even really know what Sin is. At most, I’ll get vague explanation that don’t explain anything, a few bible verses and then Paul telling me that I am making up my own version of truth. There is even a story in the bible where the Pharisees too where book worshipers just as Paul is. They missed the point of their holy books and they closed themselves off spiritually. They failed to see that their holy books could direct them into the right direction, instead, they looked themselves into the books and closed themselves off. There is a good lesson in that story, whether it is true or not but I see that even Paul has missed it from the very book he worships. In that same fashion, even a story of complete fiction can guide a person spiritually for it is the message that it carries that matters. Even a story of pure mythology that captures something and teaches a lesson. But it is as what I said before, some are so concerned about whether or not a story is true, that they focus on this, rather on what message it carries and they truly miss the lessons of their own book. People who worship a book are a funny bunch, these people always are the ones guaranteed the miss the lessons of the very book they worship, unless the book commands one to worship the book. LoL |
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