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 The Bible ... Helpful / true - 2005/06/01 12:04
As I learn … un-learn … process … I realized … ideas are

True
Known intellectually
Gnown (as in gnosis … experience)
Believed
Make sense
Proven

Any of the above … may … or may not … be related …

As in … something may well be true … but can't be proven ... though can be believed ...

As JW’s … we were encouraged to take what we believed … and convince the rest of the world it was true … to ‘prove’ it … it is a mentality that … IMHO … is best let go ...

It is my understanding … there is little that can be proven … including the infallibility … un-adulterated-ness … of the Bible …

That would not necessarily make it untrue …

As I progressed spiritually … I changed the value system by which I judged things … and began to question ,..

what is this for …
is it helpful …

So in that regard … the Bible may be very helpful … without ever addressing questions such as … is it true … are parts of it true … or inspired … is it complete … can it be proven …

And regarding it as helpful … though not proven as true … need not impact on ones faith in God ... rather it allows the focus of the belief … to be on God … rather than on a book …

Philia … Evening
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 Re:The Bible ... Helpful / true - 2005/06/01 15:27 Dear Evening

I'll buy that, even though the scrolls have been transliterated from Hebrew, Greek and aramaic, and some of the Hebrew words most definitely lose their true meaning

I'm sure that the main message has been preserved, as the bible itself and this is testament to Jehovah keeping satan from completely causing it to be lost
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