[Woodsman]

I’m not a bible “thumper,” and feel I do not need to hang my hat on man’s words written well past the death of Jesus.

I think some people seek concrete answers, meaning and understanding of the written words as if it is a hand-made map to the buried gold some pirate lost. I believe there are some who feel as if reading and understanding every word in the Bible they’ll be given a pass to the gates of heaven. Worse, they read, think they know and proceed to jam it down the throats of others as if they are the self chosen one to do the work the Bible has already done.

My opinion is that its best not to out smart the Bible and take its words at face value. To attempt to be the smart one and interpret the Bible as if you wrote it is foolish at best. The one good thing about attempting to outwit the process of never ending meaning within the Bible is that it gets people talking about it. That is the only point to all of its meanings.

It is my opinion reading and attempting to decipher the Bible is a fools errand, and there is no greater fool than the man standing before you preaching as if he had first hand knowledge. The gathering of the people over the story is the only real meaningful message.

You get no pass for doing your homework in attempting to read between the lines for the true meaning that you can not read. Just consuming the words however they come to mean something to you is the true purpose. To preach exactly the meaning in which you or no one could not truly know is to think you are a God. Would that be trickery and you the devil’s fool?

I will only attempt to respond to the very first paragraph or question you wrote as I too play the fool: in my opinion we are not all God. We all have the ability to accept God. That is how we “have” God in us. Meaning; to have God in us simply means to believe. To believe simply means …. To have faith. Can faith be blind and you stil, have it … Yes! It’s like being ignorant; as a young man would, to think attending college, earning a degree is a golden ticket to a good career ….hence, good life. Is it really?. If so, how is it that the people that are seemingly doing the best in our capitalist society / political society are the most corrupt? You know the answers. Stop! And accept what you know to be true.

Blind faith = having difficulty believing what you can not see. You read or hear the truth but you have difficulty believing what it means. Therefore, you see not how to apply it to your existence. You think mechanically and in concrete ways … “I must know to the exact meaning or answers I order to build my rock solid foundation onto which I build my house of messing and purpose …. That is bullshit! Just hang your hat … you need not the hook.

In contrast, if you do not have blind faith you seek reason or justification to go against what you don’t understand. Ironically, you trust in not believing in blind faith with out the proof. In other words, be it that you seek answers to believe or not believe neither one has the proof to settle your hunger for what to believe. Yet you will accept one or the other as blind faith but not both. Is there a hook onto which to hang my hat or not? I must see it first before removing my hat says the lost man.

Hang your hat on No hook! Just go ahead and hang your hat knowing it somehow will hang there for you.

P.S. these are my words and my thoughts and they are not yours onto which to hang your hat.

I am just a man and I know I am ignorant. Be free to tell me I am wrong.