Ok first and foremost if you are very religious please and I mean please do not read any further.
Now that I have said that I am in now why putting anyone down for their thoughts on religion. I am just asking anyone who reads this to have an open mind where religion itself is concerned. I myself am a Golden Rulest . Simply put do unto others as you would have done unto you. Nothing more nothing less.
I was brought up basically as a preacher's son. My father helped start a church and when that church ex communicated my grandmother, my father left it and taught us from home. We learnt the bible ( King James' Version) front to back , back to front ( yes back to front) . As the years went by I guess you can say I rebelled. I become more interested in science and it of course did not agree with what I was taught from the bible itself. I could not believe that the earth was made in 6 days, and where were the dinosaurs put ?
I came to realize that the bible was actually made by an emperor ( Constantine ) who at the time wanted to create one major religion so he called all the bishops together and had them go thru the dead sea scrolls and decide which ones were good enough to become part of the bible, and all the others were left out to be discarded. ( this is a fact you can look it up ) so is born Christianity . Now you may say but Bill it takes faith ! you must believe in the writings that they put together ! Well those writings were also done by man. And one of my biggest questions I have had is why did the miracles stop ? How come we have to go by faith alone yet all the people from years back where shown they way ? just a thought . I have several of them too which I am sure I will voice if not now in later blogs.
So by me calling myself a Golden Rulest am I hedging my bet so to speak ? maybe , but what better way to live one's life than to treat one's fellow person like you would want to be treat ? I mean I would not want to be talked down to , or to be walked by when in need so why should I do the same ? I mean when it comes right down to it isn't that the main theme of religion ? to be kind to one another ? I know it is definitely the moral thing to do no matter what . And to be honest morals are the key to everything. I have heard people say if there is no god then the world would fall apart. Why? Why would morals have to be sacrificed if there was not a higher power ? There are still laws right ? And if a person thinks well I won't go to hell if I do this , well if it is bad enough you surely won't live long or be free to live your life .
I know there is a lot of what ifs in my way of thinking, but for the most part I think we all want structure in our lives, no we need it, if anything to keep us on a law bidding track. Now in the future I am going to go back to my studies of the bible and pose some questions to section of it for those that might be interested. I realize I might lose some friends from this blog and I understand and respect your feelings if that is how you feel. But remember I did warn you from the beginning of this and I hope those that have read this blog are still of open mind and interested in what I am writing. I am only giving food for thought and nothing more. But I personally hope that those who are interested have gain some perspective of where I am coming from and look forward to reading future blogs of mine on this subject. Please feel free to ask any questions of me and I shall do my best to answer them in kind.
