God’s Love Is Stronger Than Your Doubts

If you're wondering, "Is God Angry with Me?" this video will provide Christian motivation and insights from the Bible on God's love and anger.

[pauljunior]

I've had this conversation a few times. People need to hear this

[deborahbenitez]

"Come now, and let us reason together. Isaiah 1:18

[SomeRandomGuyx]

I'm already connected, maintenance is required however. I also believe we're not wretched, I believe we are all qualified and worthy. Except you need to open the channel to divine communication and humble your-ego. In my experience, that can be done through Jesus yes, but also other conceptual links to divinity. Such as your holy guardian angel or through Krishna (he lives too). It provides the same phenomenological (fancy word for conceptual experience without differentiating between subject-object) result to divine connection. But all of them require devotional practice over longer periods (prayer, meditation, visualisation, mantra, ritual, fasting etc) to be effective. All of them can also result in "instant" experiences of love/joy/peace etc one non-biblical ex. of that is: shaktipata. (which is equivalent phenomenologically to what Christians call "salvation experience")

So I very much trust the divinity of God.
But the bible as anymore than a fragmented representation of that... yeah no. (same goes for bhagavad gita, Gnostic gospels, pali canon, Quran etc)

Furthermore, believing it's infallible can actually be.. very dangerous to your spiritual growth and connection to God. Because it guides you into a life of intellectual dishonesty (constructing a ton of epistemological meaning to make the bible coherent) and of boxing the spirit into being less than it is. (into that box of meaning that restricts it's possible expressions)
As you are forced to construct a narrative around the plot-holes.
and it's not a matter of honestly addressing the text (as an academic would) it's about "how can we make this fit" which makes even "might not be a contradiction" turn into "we choose the less likely explanation because... we have to make every other verse fit" and that's what's unhealthy in modern Christianity.

I'm not repeating this, and few people will take the time to write such a message. So take note.

Genuine truth-seekers will hunt down "what can we know first", before starting to relate to what we can't really know (faith/dogma etc). As the reality of the text is identified, even if, let's say the bible has 20% of errors (example) I can still find and appreciate the 80% of truths. Without having to depend my spiritual life on the bible making 100% sense. For some, it might lead them into atheism, but that's also dishonesty. Because it fails to explain spiritual phenomena (relying on psychology is another dogma) - agnostic or Gnostic is a different matter . -- Hence, the truth is much MUCH more nuanced than people want it to be.