[orthodoxymoron]

Q. What do you think of Bible?

A. It is a collection of many books...with both good and evil content.

Q. Why do people freak out when talking about Bible?

A.Because it is represented as being the ultimate authority for faith and practice (indeed the very Word of God)...and because it promises eternal life and heaven to those who believe and obey...and threatens hell and/or death to those who doubt and disobey. With the stakes being represented as being this high...the fact that the messages are conflicting and contradictory...makes people go crazy...sometimes literally.

Q. Why do 90% of the people who did not even read the Bible dare to bash it?

A.Because so many people have been hit over the head with so many 'thus saith the Lord's' by so many Bible-thumping zealots who think they're right...and everyone else is wrong. They don't want to go near a book that seems to make people act like that.

Q. Is the book judicable by the acts of people who by the way did not even read it?

A. Guilt by association.

Q. Why is such a great effort of many to discredit the Bible and yet they are not successful?

A. Many people's minds are made up...and they do not wish to be confused by the facts. 'A man convinced against his will...is of the same opinion still.'

Q. Why do people connect Bible with religion?

A. Because religious people read and quote Bibles...and because religious schools are often called Bible Colleges.

Q. Why people avoid often to even talk of Bible?

A. Because they don't want to get into a shouting match.

Q. Why Bible is the most translated ,read and printed book ever and yet the most persecuted,burned and forbidden?

A. Because of the volatility of the messages contained therein...and the explosive implications and ramifications.

Q. Why so much effort to root out the Bible and yet none successful?

A. Because people do not wish to be forbidden access to that which they consider to be forbidden truth.

Q. Why so many people were tortured and brutally murdered by Catholic and other churches because of possessing the Bible or reading it?

A. Because this threatened the authority and absolute power of Mother Church.

Q. Why despite obvious attempts of certain mistranslations that still the message is crystal clear?

A. I'm not sure that the message is crystal clear. Look at the number of churches in the Yellow Pages. Each one thinks they have the correct interpretation of that crystal clear message.

Please don't misunderstand. I think that everyone should read the Bible...but I do not think that educated people dressed in suits and robes...should play god...control, repress, and generally screw people up with the 'Word of God'...in Churches of Ignorance and Intolerance. In fairness...I am equally harsh regarding New Age Messiahs...Channeled Wisdom from Ascended Masters...and Thousand Dollar Transformational Weekends.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are an interesting tangent to the Holy Bible. Why have 'they' been so very secretive and restrictive about them? Also...who really decided upon which books should be included in the 66 books of the Bible Canon? Any hidden agendas or redactions? Why aren't the Teachings of Jesus considered to be the Christian Canon?

The 'Word of the Son of God' (under the guidance of the Holy Spirit Within) is God's Word to me...orthodoxymoron.