"Personally, I want an evidence-based theology and spirituality." (socratus)
Isn't there something in the Bible ...if you can't believe without proof then you are an unbeliever-- or, from what I have seen here, likely to be a scientist.
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Ellis, keep in mind that, in my opinion, the Bible is not
A book--that is, the kind of book that we know. Bible scholars agree: the Bible is a complex collection of 66 disparate documents, not all of which are books. These documents were collected over more than 2000 years, or more.
Is the Bible "the Word of God"?
Get serious! Calling
THE Bible "the Word of God" is, in my opinion, not unlike calling a collection of any newspaper--for example, "the New York Times", the "word of God".
I do not now, nor have I ever, accepted the Bible as the word of GOD, literally speaking.
Like the media, the Bible is the word of those who wrote it.
For me, GOD/GØD (The unit&the whole) is Being itself, not someone who speaks words.
