So is the Old Testament still valid or not?

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Old Testament still valid or not?

I forgat to answer you. Answer: Yes, the principles of the law are still valid. The spirit of the law is still alive.

I can see in your eyes that you have given a great deal of thought to this and coming to these conclusions have pained you.

I sympathize with you completely. Let me give you my take. I believe in God and I pray everyday, and overall try to live a healthy spiritual life. However, like you I came to the same conclusion that the Bible is not only not a holy book, it's completely unhealthy for people. The problems start almost at the very beginning in Genesis and just don't stop.

I realized however, after careful meditation, that God exists. I believe (and this is purely faith) he/she exists in everyone and is loving, and if we listen carefully God tells us the truth of life, gives us direction and fulfills are basic needs. I just do not believe that God is the God that is written about in the Bible. That God is angry, not loving, violent, confused, and etc. In the end I learned that I could not trust something that came from man (In this case the Bible, don't get me started on the Church).

I also realized that the whole concept of the Bible itself is pretty suspect. Think about it, when teaching a child (and I'm rather confidently assuming that compared to God we are like children) do you explain yourself and your ways simply and slowly to the child, or do you lay before him/her a 5000 page, densely written, highly contradictory manual? Sounds like something set up to confuse and control people if you want my opinion.

My hope for you is that you will listen to your spirit and heart to find God. He will show you the way that YOU need. Not what a bunch of religious leaders think. I also think God was working through you to post your video, as I think the Bible has created far more problems for God than it ever has good things.

Finally, rather unashamedly I would like to say that you are a VERY beautiful woman, physically, vocally and mentally. Best of luck with your modeling and I look forward to seeing other videos in your blog

-S

I enjoyed reading this post and the ensuing debate. Emotions obviously strong in both: everyone representing their feeling, and the reasons that justify it.

I looked at your last comment, Irina, on 'rose tinted glasses', and I thought about myself.

I thought, the idea of everything being good in this world, is a delusion in itself. It seems, the first delusion, that children are fed by their parents - out of their parents wish to create this 'perfect' world for their child.. perhaps to sustain their own egoic delusion of human importance.

But it couldn't be a more disbalanced lie. So of course we take off our rose tinted glasses!

The idea of the universe 'caring' about us or our well being is absurd. We just are. We are here.

The idea of God, must be, if anything, the awe inspiring concept representing the mass of what we do not know. Vicious, indifferent, beautiful, infinite.

Why does the idea of God have to be this childish story originating in the parable of Genesis?

I think that's a human-centric, egoic, small-minded story, written for the masses perhaps, who couldn't be expected to understand more.

It is known, after all, that less intelligent people are a threat to the more intelligent ones. They are unpredictable, generally more brutish and short-sighted, fear-triggered, competitive and destructive.

It makes sense that a few intelligent people who had a sense of awe in the universe crafted some of these stories to be spread and told to others among tribes, to give the less intelligent a 'faith' to grab onto. Through this they could dispel violence, even though they couldn't convey their own original sense of love and awe that would do this naturally.

Then, I can see how they could have become horribly corrupt, once they had gained control of the masses through the implement of religion.

PS - I think certainly the old testament shows the barbaric roots of this population control through dictates 'decreed by God'.

I agree that the text has to be taken as a whole for its overarching mentality and meaning. Picking and choosing is simply manipulating for one's own personal gain. Nothing new among humans right?

Anyone who follows it today is ridiculous, in my opinion. It's nothing more than a bloody historical record, not to follow, but to remind us of the mistakes of the past.

I think real scholars kept this in writing, not for the neo-evangelical perversion, and frankly, low-IQ interpretation we see today, but as a reminder of the past; historical record.

I have wondered a lot about the old testament and the new and why these two seemingly disconnected documents are slapped together in one common text.