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Unpopular opinion: the Bible is a map, not the territory.

The Bible is an old, weathered, heavily censored, and significantly altered map with large missing pieces. It'll help you find God, but with a lot of confusion, detours, and unanswered questions along the way.

What's needed is a more complete map that was preserved and protected from mistranslations, censorship, and alterations, in order to validate the truths in the Bible, correct errors that have snuck in over time, and fill in some missing pieces. Yes, I'm saying we need the Book of Mormon.

But what's needed even more than that is people who only use scriptures as the tools they were always meant to be; as a means to an end, and not the end itself.

I told you this was an unpopular opinion.
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The Conscious Contrarian 1y ago

This is correct. However, there is no complete map you the territory the bible is trying to point at. It’s always going to be hearsay and conjecture… the true territory of consciousness and life can only be experienced for oneseld

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Jason Hodlers 🪢 1y ago

Bingo! Any scripture -- even if it's a direct quote that God said to a person while they're writing it down -- pales in comparison to one's own experience of connecting with God directly. Such words can be very good and helpful in getting one to that point of connection, but they are no substitute for personal revelation.