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Psalm 103: I've read Verse 5 in several translations, and still can't fathom what "so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's" means. One version dropped it all together! :EDIT: OK, apparently there is a well known myth (not by me) that eagles shed their feathers and beaks at the age of 40 and then regrow them and live another 30 years. That's just crazy.
Psalm 104: Praising God for all the stuff he made, with a little tagged on plea to kill wicked people
Psalm 105: A reminder of the events of Exodus

I'm just over half way through now, I've kept this up for 6 months!!

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From: (Anonymous)

I respect what your doing keeping an open mind and trying to understand everything the bible has. What is it your trying to acheive through this? Is there An answer your after or is it a curiosity sort of thing?

From:

wolfpurplemoon

Just curiosity really, I'm not really expecting to understand it fully, or to find any sort of answer.

From:

john173.livejournal.com

Expect to find a REAL answer.

From: (Anonymous)

How is your reading going now?

I'm intrigued with all of the comments, and your resolve to read through the entire bible.

I'm a Christian, and have been for 20+ years. I'm on my third trip through the bible, plus a miriad of spot readings through Church and other personal reading plans.

Personally, the new testament helps me more to make sense of things, but even at this stage of my Faith, , I'm unsure of how to interpret certain things, and some of what my translations purport to be God's logic.

I understand that this is where Faith comes in. I choose to believe, and have Faith. I know that it's a choice, not always logical. I also choose while not agreeing with everything that I read, (or at least the way it's interpreted and translated)

Guess what? It's not always easy to believe. Many devout Christians doubt things they read. I'm amazed at how some make it seem so easy to blindly accept and believe. It hasn't worked that way for me, I'm a skeptic by nature (or by design).

However I cannot accept the thought that random occurances are responsible for my being, and for the events that surround my day tomorrow. I see too much evidence to the contrary, even though I don't understand it all.

Good luck with the balance of your reading.

From:

wolfpurplemoon

I find your world view a little hard to get my head around, although I understand it can be difficult for some to accept certain scientific facts but however much you dislike them they are still the truth as best we can work it out. I just don't see why you would need to stuff God in there to explain your existence. It seems far more astounding and truly awesome to realise that I am only here due to millions of random occurrences.

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caleb ely (from livejournal.com)

Wolfpurplemoon, your point is contradictory to the very atheism you are trying to confirm as more probable... You are right, It is far more astounding/absurd to believe that we are here due to millions of random occurrences. Therefore it requires less faith to believe in an intelligent designer as the source of the universe than evolution/chance/ect as the source... All scientific theories about the origin of the universe aren't scientific, they all require an immense amount of blind faith and they all require ideas that defy the very fabric/laws of our physical world. So is it all that silly to believe in a creator that exists outside the constraints of time and space as the source? Which requires more faith? You might be interested in the book "The Source" which was written by a athiest and scientist who underwent a journey to disprove the existence of God.