Subject: RE: BS: What did GOD ever do for us?
From:
Little Hawk
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 12:59 PM
Not true, beadie! God has put out more "major publications" than you could ever count, and is STILL doing so. I can't help it if you haven't bothered to give them credence, and have chosen to fixate on just one that is 2,000+ years old...
Some of the better known ones are the Baghavad Gita, the Bible, the Q'ran, the Upanishads, the Book of Mormon, the Torah, the Vedas, the "Conversations With God" series, the Bahai writings, the Taoist writings, the Buddhist scriptures, the Medicine teachings of the Amerindians, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on....
There will probably be several new ones out this year. Keepa you eyes and ears open!
You will note that there are some interesting differences to be found in these scriptures...one to another. Yes! That is because they were given to different people in different societies at different times...and that required a somewhat different approach, different wording, putting things in terms that were understandable to the listener and applicable to his/her life at the time. Capiche?
It's also because the scriptures were filtered through the consciousness of the people who wrote them down or memorized them (in societies with an oral tradition), and those people's own state of awareness colored the teachings accordingly, in line with what they were capable of expressing and understanding.
In other words, if you are living amongst a tribal people on the veldt, and must contend with lions, locusts, and immediate physical dangers...then you may need a different instruction booklet than does a philosopher in Shanghai during the reign of the Yellow Emperor or an accountant in present day Schenectady!
Interestingly enough, however, there is a sort of central theme that runs through all of the above teachings...and the wise seek it out carefully. This is why the wise also honour ALL the holy scriptures, not just the one common to the tiny little cultural milieu that they were born and brought up in.
But, hey! Your post had some amusing stuff in it. That's always handy, cos people can get way too solemn when discussing God. :-) God is not always solemn.
Now, regarding the ten so-called "requirements"...
They weren't requirements at all. They were promises of what would begin to happen within YOU as you approach closer to God in your own conscious awareness. In other words...when you begin to achieve godliness you will find that you tend:
Not to kill wantonly...
Not to lie...
Not to steal...
Not to bear false witness...
Not to speak of sacred things in a profane (a negative) way...
Not to covet things which don't belong to you (such as your neighbour's spouse, possessions, land, etc...), given the fact that strong "coveting" of that sort usually leads to some sort of harmful outward activity eventually (or at least creates a harmful inward emotional condition)
Not to "adulterize" (meaning, not to defile what is pure...as in not to defile love with deceitfullness and manipulation)
And so on.
As you become more enlightened, you tend to become more loving (of God, Self, and others), more generous, less fearful, more respectful, less violent, more kindly. All of that leads toward realizing the Ten Promises which were given.
To expect any living human being to always and perfectly meet ten "COMMANDMENTS" of that sort would be so unlikely as to be ridiculous! No one has done that. Everyone must kill, for example, killing some other form of life from time to time in order to simply survive as a biological being.
Yet the enlightened are far less inclined to kill thoughtlessly and wantonly. They are less inclined to murder. This is obvious.
God does not give Commandments. If He/She did, they would be unbreakable...and what we know as free will would cease to exist, and you would have no further need OF holy scriptures to advise you, cos you would be an obedient robot.
- LH
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