Trying to Organize, Not my Strong Suit.
As I get further into the Bible, it is becoming more apparent that I will need to find a way to keep my posts sorted. I need to both list them by Book and Chapter, but also create a page where they will be listed in order just in case someone wants to follow the entire process. I understand that it’s somewhat arrogant to assume this, but you never know. Perhaps, even a next button to go to the following post. By the end of the weekend I hope to have some of this completed.
If anyone familiar with blogging on WordPress has any ideas, please leave a comment.
Good idea. I, for one, will be referring back to it when needed. Appreciate the effort. I don’t need the sleep that reading through the bible would provide!
I think you could use the tags. I myself use Blogger, WordPress would be the same. If A post on Babel has the tags “Genesis” and “Babel”, clicking on the label “Genesis” will bring up all posts of that book. Of course other tags mus be used, acording to the theme. If the post Babel contained the label “God’s Gealousy”, along with other posts, clicking the lavel would bring all relevant posts. You need a tag cloud for that. You can further order the posts by changing manually their day of publication. Sorry if that was not relevant for you.
Sorry for the typos. I have not the English spell checker working at my computer.
I congratulate your efforts on the interesting autopsy you are performing on the Bible. I hope it helps some people out there to open their eyes. I read most of it with pleasure.
I want to point to an aspect of the Bible that is so obvious, it’s strange how it is not widely perceived: Literary style. If some kind of god had produced or inspired it, anyone would notice immediately.
No matter how ignorant the human writers could have been, no matter how clumsy or biased were the translations, some divine beauty should seep through.
Reading that book would be a direct personal experience. Say, it would be far, far superior to what any genius of human literature ever produced (you can insert your favorites here).
It doesn’t happen. Some people are thrilled by reading the Bible, but the thrill comes from their previous religious convictions. What everyone else gets is an ancient text, dated and mostly incoherent. It has some beauty in some places, is utterly boring in others and is shockingly rude in others. Q.E.D. No god wrote the Bible.
That’s evidence that can be felt by everyone. Just sit down and read, say, a bit of Walt Whitman and then read some page of the Bible. Which one is divine?
Carlos, you are right. The Bible is not written by God. To “find” God in the text, a person must read between the lines, as our blogging author mentioned in a previous article. I like your point about how the writing style is literary and is lacking in quality. If God wrote it, we would certainly all know it, because the stories and the language would transcend time and culture.
Walt Whitman’s writing is worth referencing. Thanks for the tip!