People who seriously claim with all sincerity that the Bible is just some archaic collection of man-made words compiled by people and is therefore something to read for pleasure, good stories, or even to be placed aside and ignored... these people i would ask if they sincerely read the entire Book from cover to cover...

Much of the people who claim to have read this have never even flipped it open much less began to diligently read it for what it says itself...

And what is sincerely funny is that such people claim to know that the Bible is not worth are those who either take everything written out of context, or never really opened it...

And yet, there are so many words and statements in Scripture than can explain many many things...

From the ills of human society and where these ills originate from... to the medical understandings... to the meaning of life... to even how to have a very satisfying and very passionate marital sex life...

Let me elude to the last point

Addressing to those who claim that the Bible has nothing for you... may I point you to the book of Song of Solomon

This particular book is a collection of poetic writings between a husband and his wife... we catch intimate glimpses of their meeting, courtship, marriage, honeymoon, and interaction between the two... it's intense, erotic, passionate, sexual, poetic, and just a depository of love poems... and very VERY relevant... its an erotic poem collection par excellance...

In this book, we literally see them have sex twice in this book... she also does a striptease for him (which I never knew till a few months after studying this book)... there are allusions of oral sex (YES IN MARRIAGE)... and basically we get prescriptions and descriptions...

We also get wisdom points in this book...

- husbands in order to get a lil sumsum from their wives, be verbally generous to her... encourage her to help her overcome her insecurities, talk to her alot, speak well of her, pour forth speech of love and kindness to her...
- wives in order to get a lil sumsum from your husbands, be visually generous to him... let him see you... lights are on... doors are open when you're bathing or changing...
- be on each other's team
- make love and make love often and alot with each other in your marriage
- don't have sex till you're married because that's the only time where it's in the right context
- if you sin against each other (which will happen): repent, talk it through, work it out, forgive each other, and start back up again
- dudes need to get jobs and supply a house for her to come home to... and NOT to mama
- if you have passion as a woman in your marriage, that's good and you should act on it...
- don't deprive each other
- if you got an idea involving your spouse, DO IT... no matter how crazy it is and just so long as it's not sinful or it breaks the law
- fellas need to love just one woman and be passionate about her no matter what
- gals need to be walls where noone can enter in than a door (if that makes sense)
- husbands need to long for their wives
- wives need to love for their husbands
- daddys need to contribute to the protection, growth, support, and education of their daughters in helping them navigate the perversity of the culture and the sinfulness of little boys who want to do nothing more than to ravage and ruin the treasures that their daughters are...

if these aren't applicable to life today... I don't know what is...

again... people who claim the Bible has nothing relevant for our lives today either have never read it or are just completely and totally and grossly misinformed...

Ignant I tell you...

When I hear people say things like, "If God were to tell you that in some odd years you would be doing this or you will be doing that." or "Would you really want God to tell you everything?"

As if somehow, I wouldn't believe it.

For me... that's not the case anymore... I really don't care WHAT God tells me to do... Whatever it is... I just wanna do it.

For me... belief isn't the matter for me anymore than obedience is.

With Abram for example.  It wasn't the fact that God told him to go.  It was the blatant fact that God TOLD him... re-read the story.

God comes to Abram one day and says, "Abe... pack up your things and all your family and leave Ur and go in that general direction." and Abram was like, "Ok..."  God never gave him a specific location to set up tent... it was just go... and many Christians would say that Abram believed God.

Problem with their partial understanding is that GOD FLAT OUT SHOWED HIMSELF AND MADE IT AUDIBLY CLEAR to pack up and leave... and anyone who is a pagan from a pagan nation and God shows Himself to that person and makes what He wants clear to that person... who wouldn't take God at His Word right?  If He made it clear to them... at least for me... i would totally believe God...

Problem is... we don't get that clear audible from God...

For me... i would much rather hear from God and have Him say, "Do this..." or "Go there..." or "You'll be doing this."

It's not what or where for me... it's what and where...

I would rather have Him tell me SO that I can do it...

For me... I don't know what faith looks like... and i'm tired of having what I think is a step of faith to be a step in the wrong direction... i've had that happen plenty of times and I'm just sick and tired of faith filled failures... one can only take so much Divine denial before a disgruntled heart sets in... and or rather than being disgruntled... the faith to move mountians shrinks to faith to lift your leg in the morning rather than faith to move the Rockies to the Pacific...

So I'm currently in the mode of, "God freakin tell me and I'll do it..."