Once, trying to read the Bible (my second chance of many) I started it randomly and I've got the line: "And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ " (MARK 9:43-48) It was terrible! What could anyone understand of those lines? I did understand nothing, that time. No way to enjoy such a reading, I thought :( Later, in a moment of decisions, I remembered those lines, and my life got a good path only because of those lines I recalled ! Another book I did not enjoy reading was The Magus by John Fawles. Outrageous book! Totally different than the Bible. If the Bible is called "The Love Letter of God" for us, and we'll discover always some new meanings in it all the time we read it and re-read it, and so on every year - it gives sense to our life, it gives life to our self, it gives hope. The Magus was the worst book for someone's life idea... One may read it with interest but their soul may be raped, HOW COULD SOMEONE gives such criminal ideas to another, to his readers...? The holy Scriptures are higher above any treasure! Even if they are not easy to read at a first glance, and it cannot be enjoyable many times, it is a miracle for a life to discover! Well, you decide what you write! A miraculous new year!
It was terrible! What could anyone understand of those lines? I did understand nothing, that time. No way to enjoy such a reading, I thought :(
Later, in a moment of decisions, I remembered those lines, and my life got a good path only because of those lines I recalled !
Another book I did not enjoy reading was The Magus by John Fawles. Outrageous book! Totally different than the Bible.
If the Bible is called "The Love Letter of God" for us, and we'll discover always some new meanings in it all the time we read it and re-read it, and so on every year - it gives sense to our life, it gives life to our self, it gives hope.
The Magus was the worst book for someone's life idea...
One may read it with interest but their soul may be raped, HOW COULD SOMEONE gives such criminal ideas to another, to his readers...?
The holy Scriptures are higher above any treasure! Even if they are not easy to read at a first glance, and it cannot be enjoyable many times, it is a miracle for a life to discover!
Well, you decide what you write!
A miraculous new year!