22-12-2007

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The comeback

Only just fifty or so odd years ago, the bible stood on a very low point. Many people simple believed that science had proven finally that the bible regardless of this was seen through the eyes of the Christians, Jews or Muslims was nothing else then a readable storybook with no relevance to the reality. A man made story with pieces added or left out depending in which age and cultural dependency of that time in with it was recorded.

Science had quit clear proven that the world was not created in those seven days as the bible mentioned. Intelligence could not stand by this kind of stories anymore let alone to take it serious.
The bible in some quarters was seen as an institution to use it as an excuse for attracting funds while others saw it as a tool to create situations to keep in place the suppression of woman, slavery and indoctrination.
The bible was also used as an excuse to go to war. In short most of them found the bible intolerant and an obstruction for the development of the world. Most accepted that in the past the bible had its influence on the development of the world, but that time was now well far left behind.

However times are changing again, in the US they using it to drive in their eyes a new science into the school called Intellectual Design and Creationist vision of the beginning of the world as it was written in the bible. So far, the US courts have rejected that bid.
Muslim extremist using it to commit atrocities, Christians are using it to invade Muslim countries, the Jews using it to attack Muslims, Christians and anything else they do not like.
In addition, that all in the name of the bible or by divine right what they do not have.

Does this means that we have an religious upheaval, the answer on this is certainly not, Christians are leaving the church in droves, Jews are getting more intolerant to less fanatic Jews.
Muslims fanatics not only fighting each other but also anyone else that comes in their way, the Abramic religions are making therefor the world a dangerous place to live in.
However, the US right wing Christians, the intolerant Jews and the Jihad Muslims are missing the point.
Their intolerance is based on nothing, as all believe in the same God regardless how they call their God.
Who of the ones who believe, cares about the fact of the holy manuscripts are not exactly right, in the time that the Old Testament was written certain now established guarantees were not available, time was a different concept as it is seen now.
Certain intellectual scientist who simple declare that if it is not exactly right, then it cannot be true, passing by the fact that their own calculations are just as much in doubt.

People all over the world who have the possibility to think independently, found out that even if they did not agree with the bible, there was something what could not be explained.
Not only by the Christians but also by the Jews and the Muslims, and other believes such as Buddhism, Confusions, Taoists, Hindu etc...

There are still intellectual scientists who believe in time they will come up with the answer, but so far with every discovery made the mystery deepens and the hand of the Almighty is ever more visible.
They now know that before the bible was written the stories were handed by mouth, even the apostles were telling the stories by mouth long before they were written down.
As by all stories some parts are added some parts are left out, but one simple fact stay’s as a shining light above all of it, the word of God.
RdC.
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