In Reply to: My response to Allan (and the other fundamentalists on this chat board posted by Eva St John on January 02, 2004 at 17:47:20:
A good read but there are numerous sentence that *Allan and cohorts* could find offensive, such as
You fundamentalists could really use a lesson in reading comprehension.
Its amusing to watch you fundamentalists go into a panic ... You jump to meaningless conclusions
I would like to insist that you go back and re-read what I wrote, this time with the open heart and open mind of Christ ... instead of with the closed mind of a Bible co-dependent who is afraid to step outside of the safe, rigid doctrinal walls of your chosen ‘group belief system’
I want you to awaken the ‘inner witness’ within you
The Truth in your heart (if you could only trust it) is a living thing, all powerful and all-encompassing. The Truth in your heart (if you let it) relaxes and opens and lets conflicting information
The difference between the way I study human spirituality and the way a fundamentalist does, is that the fundamentalist already has his mind made up and doesn’t want to be confused with the facts.
the spirit of Christ in me will lead me into all truth, just so long as I don’t start getting religiously addictive and begin fanatically embracing one narrow viewpoint, as the Apostle Paul ultimately ended up doing.
If you’ve studied the Bible in depth with an honest, inquiring heart, you will have found (as I did) there are actually many contradictions and inaccuracies in its historical accounts, and innumerable omissions and mistranslations.
May your eyes and your heart be opened.