Certainty and the Simple Mind

It is fascinating how simple minded individuals will pull out the same ol’ claims without verifying them.  Like the claim that the old testament foretold Jesus.  Any intellectually honest person who reads the old testament in an honest way will be led to one conclusion. The so called prophecies fit only when stretched by the imagination and forced to fit by faith.  If you really want to understand the Bible read it like any other book, with an open and critical mind and not with preconceived beliefs. Don’t follow a Sunday school Bible Study course, which is nothing more than someone trying to tell the “student” what things mean.  Get you a good translation and a good dictionary and go through it like any other book. You don’t need help reading or studying any other book do you? When you come to the claimed prophecies ask yourself, honestly, is there anything that proves it is speaking of Jesus? To an intellectually honest, free thinking skeptical reader the answer will be no. Can the imagination stretch it to fit, sure. to one who wants to believe it.  To one who has already made up their mind, absolutely. But that is not an honest inquiry, and that is not objective thinking.

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