Religious Experiment #1: The Bible

I will be reading the Bible and posting a day-to-day blog about my thoughts, regarding the text. In some way or form I will try to relate it to current events. The overall question I am trying to tackle:

Does the Bible hold up in this new Century?

Please note that I will try my best to remain unbiased as I have no religious connection whatsoever. Please leave your comments and if you choose to e-mail me with questions, please do. I would love to hear your thoughts as well.

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Text Day #X : Goal is stretching farther away

Where is the Bible (King James Edition)? It is on the book shelf…I look over and I can see it. Just right there, on top of the books - looking at me.

I still really would like to read the Bible, but I’m not sure if I can banish the ever-lurking evolution believer in me. I say banish so I can try and be unbias to read the Bible. Bah. It’s harder than I thought because I think I’ve picked it up five or more times and it’s the same process repeated. I open it up to the Genesis chapter, read the first few lines (I’ve gotten through the page) and just think to myself how can it be true?

Any suggestions to push through it all and just read it? Hmm.
Text Day #3: Bible Procured, Genesis

I have the King James Edition in my hand and I have read the first few chapters of Genesis. I am going to be honest with all of you, or whoever is reading this blog.

This is going to be very, very hard. I can already see the scientist in me wanting to burst forth and I’m trying to keep an open-mind. Heh. All I know is that I enjoy a challenge and I’m just going to see what is going to be at the finish line.

I am going to have to go back to a time where I actually went to Church with my grandmother every Sunday. This was a decade and a bit more back. I was a Catholic, baptized a Catholic too when I was a baby, I don’t think this will have any effect in the way I am going to view the Bible.

All I know for sure is that this is going to be one heck of a trip.

I shall write down and relate….later today on the first chapter of Genesis.

(back to jack in the box animating, image below was first one in google images when I typed in god creating earth. it looks nice.)
Text Day #2: Bible Procured (almost)

Okay, another update (yes, I know this is all boring preamble, but hey at least I’m updating), anyway, I am going to be using the King James edition. A friend of my suggested it as it is the most standard, so to say. I shall begin reading it this Sunday and I will post an update when finished.

I was also told that Genesis has a lot of material to go over, so I will most likely spend a good portion of the month and next to go over Genesis, which should be quite interesting.

Cheers.

(now, off to physics and reading, hahah)

(have you seen this documentary? I watched it awhile back, perhaps I will watch it again as some of the concepts are a bit fuzzy to me.)
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech
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http://thinkexist.com/quotations/god/
Text Day #1: Procuring a Bible

I will need the Bible first, and to obtain such I will venture to my library and hopefully they will have it there. :) Wish me luck, eh?