Getting it Wrong
So I met with my small bible study group tonight...and I kept on giving the out of left field answers to the questions...or not have a clue what the people were talking about. It's because they were talking in all the filled up with words ways that humanities people do, and not in the sparse way that scientists talk. I could barely follow it.
This is what I learned:
1. 30 to 40% of what you interpret of the bible is probably wrong.
2. That worries a lot of people and doesn't worry other people
3. People fear that there is no God and life really is meaningless...while the people who know that life is meaningless fear that they are wrong and there is a God.
4. It is human to feel these fears...
5. something about being an expert at things...or so...this was the end of the night and my brain couldn't handle any more...
6. "despiaring because people realize that what is written is nothing more than words"
But I wonder, did the poeple in Standing in the Gap ever fear that God didn't exist, fear that they were wrong in their faith? I wonder because I got the feeling that it was a sin to fear that. Hell, they taught that it was a sin to fear....I think....at least they were very serious about giving your fears to God. But what if I don't, is that a sin or just a sign of weak faith? I think a lot of people in that group were afraid to show signs of weak faith, to show that they weren't perfect Christians. They discussed all they're past pre-christians sins, but then they didn't have to many while in the group. I guess I should be first to admit that I was like that....I didn't tell a soul there except Megan and Stephani that I drank and partied. I wish more people would have been open, so I could have been...maybe I should have been so that other people could have been. I wonder what would have happened. I don't think they liked to hear about it and I didn't want to make them uncomfortable, and even more I didn't want to be lectured on how I "should" act and what God wants. They all said God took drinking etc. away from them...then why didn't he take it away from me? Not that I particularly care...God has a plan for me, and I don't know what it is and I can't control it...so I guess I just gotta roll with the flow.
Get it! That's how I roll! *uuuuhhhhnnnnnn*
This is what I learned:
1. 30 to 40% of what you interpret of the bible is probably wrong.
2. That worries a lot of people and doesn't worry other people
3. People fear that there is no God and life really is meaningless...while the people who know that life is meaningless fear that they are wrong and there is a God.
4. It is human to feel these fears...
5. something about being an expert at things...or so...this was the end of the night and my brain couldn't handle any more...
6. "despiaring because people realize that what is written is nothing more than words"
But I wonder, did the poeple in Standing in the Gap ever fear that God didn't exist, fear that they were wrong in their faith? I wonder because I got the feeling that it was a sin to fear that. Hell, they taught that it was a sin to fear....I think....at least they were very serious about giving your fears to God. But what if I don't, is that a sin or just a sign of weak faith? I think a lot of people in that group were afraid to show signs of weak faith, to show that they weren't perfect Christians. They discussed all they're past pre-christians sins, but then they didn't have to many while in the group. I guess I should be first to admit that I was like that....I didn't tell a soul there except Megan and Stephani that I drank and partied. I wish more people would have been open, so I could have been...maybe I should have been so that other people could have been. I wonder what would have happened. I don't think they liked to hear about it and I didn't want to make them uncomfortable, and even more I didn't want to be lectured on how I "should" act and what God wants. They all said God took drinking etc. away from them...then why didn't he take it away from me? Not that I particularly care...God has a plan for me, and I don't know what it is and I can't control it...so I guess I just gotta roll with the flow.
Get it! That's how I roll! *uuuuhhhhnnnnnn*