Bible Discussion Thread

Putting your opportunity for salvation into the hands of another human and saying to them : here , you sort this out for me ' ,is a big mistake as far as I'm concerned . The printing press was given to us for a reason , the best reason . God does and has always has know each and every person intimately , He wants us to know Him intimately which is why He has preserved and published His Word . Putting a middle man or woman , a human , in between ourselves and our God is I think a mistake . I'm sorry to say that I don't trust any human that much . He's my God it's my salvation and I want to know what's expected of me and what God has to offer me . This site is fab , it's full of different personalities with different view points and I've been provoked and enlightened by many posts on here and I believe that the vast majority of people on here are genuine Truth seekers , that's why I keep coming back . In churches I have heard many excellent sermons , I've also heard a few duffers . When I go to church I want to be provoked into thinking and seeking even harder than normal , I love it love it love it when some one else knows more than me and shares their knowledge . I want to learn not be placated or comforted by some one who only knows how to do those two things . I want to be enlightened not lulled into a false sense of security ' he's better educated than me so he must know better than me : I don't have to read or study , that's what my pastor is for '. That creates in me laziness , which I'm already inclined to . God is beautiful , I want to learn of His beauty and have it full my heart with joy , I get that from His pure Word , from the Bible , we humans tarnish every thing with our dirty hands . God is clean and bright and pure and beautiful and I trust Him implicitly . He's in the Bible , so that's where I'm going , see you there .