It’s a historical account.
It’s not the Word of God, because if it was the Word of God it would’ve been written by God, but instead it was written by men. Plus, I have a hard time believing that God would be so harsh to kill innocent children and do other terrible horrible things that occur in the Old Testament. In fact, according to my research, that God is a false God, hence why you have all these scandals in the Church, cause the real God wouldn’t allow anything like that to happen to his Creation.
And I don’t think The Bible was 100% inspired by God. The Bible was written by 40 different authors, and I’m sorry but I am not going to blindly trust 40 different people that every single one of those authors truly were inspired by God. It’d be different if we were looking at like 3 authors or a small number, but 40? Yeah…that’s like saying you can trust every single person in the government. Especially nowadays, since the Republicans are playing by the same playbook as the Democrats, therefore making both parties corrupt as can be.
I’m not saying it’s not possible that all 40 authors were truly inspired by God, it’s very possible that was the case. But, the odds of that being true are very small. And since it’s retranslated all the time, honestly it’s hard to even know if what we’re reading is really true. Whenever you retranslate something, the meaning gets lost, and with the amount of times this book has been retranslated, at this point it really just boils down to faith, because no amount of evidence that The Bible actually means what it says can justify a true meaning. It should’ve been translated once and left alone. But no, let’s water down the meaning of The Bible, because that’s smart….
When Jesus was alive, Rome wanted the man dead. Rome did not care about that man, at all. They did not feel sorry for him. They did not care that he preached the truth. The man was assassinated (because it was planned). And now, years later, we have a Pope that resides in Rome who basically is God’s second in command, and people still to this day believe that this whole religion is good? Do you honestly think this religion was made because Jesus wanted this religion to be made? Because what these people in power did was make this religion into a business, and basically exploited the story of Jesus for money. And yet, people will swear by this religion and will even die for it. Just because you have a supernatural experience doesn’t mean you should turn to religion. You had a supernatural experience because Jesus loves you and wants to help you out. That was something Jesus did, not the Church. Rome killed this man, and you can clearly tell that the Romans enjoyed it. You honestly think after all this time they care about that man? Look at what’s going on in your Churches. Shoot, look at some of these people who call themselves Christians or Catholics. This is not what Jesus wanted at all. Jesus desired for people to love one another, to be kind, to love your neighbor, to follow the 10 Commandments, to turn the other cheek. But what do you see? Evil….that’s what you’re seeing. Any crime committed against children is straight up evil. There is no circumstance at all when killing a child is a good thing, none. There is no circumstance where molesting a child is ok, NONE!
It just amazes me the amount of trust people have with other people they truly know nothing about. A person can look good on paper, and be the most evil person to ever live. We have proof that we’ve had bad Popes, Bishops, Cardinals, Priests, etc… It should not surprise you that some people who were considered “doctors of the Church”, saints, even certain philosophers, it should not surprise you that some of these people may have had an ulterior motive. I’m sorry, the fact that corruption is present in the Church should be an indicator that, sorry, but there are some people who have ulterior motives. And some of these people are praised and are called “level-headed.” This is why you shouldn’t believe everything you are told and everything you are taught, cause some of that information was designed to get you to fall for a blatant lie (or at best a half-truth).
I believe in Jesus, but the God of the Old Testament is a phony. I dunno where Jesus got all of his traits from, because the God of the Old Testament isn’t a believer in mercy. He may have warned people before he went through with anything he did, but you don’t hear God sparing anyone. If God did something, he did it, and mercy was nowhere to be found. At least Jesus believed in mercy. So that tells me that either Jesus inherited all of his Mother’s traits, or the God of the Old Testament is a joke, and my research has led me to believe that the God of the OT is indeed fake. That there is a higher God than him who made our souls.
This is probably going in one ear and out the other, but good luck with trusting that many people. I sincerely hope you’re trusting the right people, truthfully.