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@Tradesecret
Stephen, the bible is clear.
Then why would anyone need to take a "scientific approach" using "scientific methods" to understand something that you clearly have stated often is "crystal clear" and add that the gospel writers are "extremely clear on what it is they are conveying to its readers"? You are simply far too dense to realise your GLARING contradiction/s.
Yes, let's say that again. It is not a mystical book.
I have said that the bible and the New Testamant in particular is ambiguous, enigmatic and contradictory I do not recall ever saying it is a "mysterious book". this is where you, being the bone head that you are, are putting words into my mouth.
Yes, it a book that needs to be properly read. I think it is to be read literally as against a mystical understanding.
Which you have never taken the time to do for all of your claims of being able "to memorise" it and to " know it back to front in many languages". would you like the evidence?
But its not relevant to those who see through your charades and smoke and mirrors.
Can you give us a few examples of me applying "smoke and mirrors" to these ancient scriptures?
You keep forgetting Reverend Munchausen, that I have nothing to lie about or defend when it comes to these ancient writings, but you do don't you?
reading your responses - it seems you really do have a problem understanding what you are reading.
That kind of slight doesn't work on me Reverend Munchausen.
You are not a free thinker.
But I am. You are the one that is tied Reverend Munchausen. As you have told us, you are the one that has been force fed the bible and taught "to memorise the bible from a very early age". So much so that you claim to " know it backwards and in many languages including Aramaic and Hebrew" You are the one that tells us that you "simply pass on what you have been taught to "pass on" by all of those " Orthodox Priests and biblical scholars ". And you are the one that appears to have wasted all that fine education on learning the total amount of completely fk all.
You have a copy of the Secret book of Mark and its special mysteries. LOL @ you for thinking you are a free thinker.
I have read Josephus, I have read the Gnostic Gospels, I have read the Rise and Fall of Summer. I have read all the works of Budge and many other books concerning the ancients and their god/s. But any book I have read is irrelevant to my opinion, ideas and theories concerning the bible.
For instance I believe John the Baptist and Jesus were deadly rivals. I believe Jesus and or his disciples had a hand in his demise. I don't believe Jesus performed a single so called "miracle". I believe Jesus survived the cross and was nursed back to health by his "secret disciples" . I believe that Jesus and others believed he was the rightful heir to the throne of Jerusalem, and I also admit that I cannot prove any of what I believe. But let me tell you something thicko, that it is the bible itself only that gave me cause to believe what it is I believe, Reverend Munchausen.
You want to add to the words in the Bible with your secret mysticism. I think it is to be read literally as against a mystical understanding.
Nope. The only people on this whole forum that put words into the mouths of the biblical authors and biblical characters is the likes of you when completely stumped for straightforward explanations for its ambiguity, anomalies, contradictions and outright lies.
The bible itself speaks of "the mysteries" and who it is that the "mysteries " are privy to. It is not MY "mysticism" you outright clown. Yet here you are AGAIN, denying the words of the bible itself.<<< this is nothing but sheer desperation.
Tell me Reverend Munchausen, why have you spent 40 years studying and "memorising" the bible , if it as "crystal clear and unambiguous" as you claim it to be?