To be more specific so you don't feel as though I'm flaming you, I believe the author's intent with this Bible reading, cover to cover, is to put down gut reactions and feelings about what she reads. Not to ask for help in doing so.
Perhaps help in understanding the text she is reading would be more beneficial than constant pressure to repent and pray? As in, your opinion of Jonah that you omitted because you suggested she ask "the source".
I certainly wouldn't feel more obligated to get to know god if the only thing Christians had to say about him was the same sing-song praise of his greatness and how terrible I am as a person because I don't believe. If you see an advert everywhere about how wonderful a product is, do you go out and buy it without questioning? Especially if it's expensive? The price we're negotiating here is supposedly eternal life.
That's just my thoughts. None of it actually reflects the author's true opinion, just what my assumptions are. And as we all know, assuming makes an "ass out of u and me".
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Date: 2010-11-02 01:53 am (UTC)Perhaps help in understanding the text she is reading would be more beneficial than constant pressure to repent and pray? As in, your opinion of Jonah that you omitted because you suggested she ask "the source".
I certainly wouldn't feel more obligated to get to know god if the only thing Christians had to say about him was the same sing-song praise of his greatness and how terrible I am as a person because I don't believe. If you see an advert everywhere about how wonderful a product is, do you go out and buy it without questioning? Especially if it's expensive? The price we're negotiating here is supposedly eternal life.
That's just my thoughts. None of it actually reflects the author's true opinion, just what my assumptions are. And as we all know, assuming makes an "ass out of u and me".