Posted March 17 2008
Being a Heretic in MY Bible
Throughout the past couple of weeks, I’ve spoken sarcastically about how the mere act of thinking is considered by some to be heretical. It doesn’t matter what you think; if it is contrary to a group’s core beliefs, you are a heretic according to their understanding.
Of course, in your understanding, their ideas are probably heretical as well. If you believe that God has a physical form (and that belief is essential to your faith), anyone who believes otherwise is a heretic in your Bible. You are a heretic in theirs.
Below are some famous things which will make you a heretic in some Bibles:
• Believing that the universe is older than 6000 years.
• Believing that the moon has physical mass.
• Believing that dinosaurs ever lived on Earth.
• Believing that the Earth is round.
I don’t know anyone who would still be considered a man of God through all those Bibles. Many of the people here consider the readings of the Bible that create those beliefs to be absurd, and would consider those who believe in them to be either heretics or too naive to have real beliefs.
I opened up my Bible. And I read it. I came up with some things to believe in, and if you don’t believe in them you are a heretic in MY Bible. MY Bible states that:*
• There is vegetation on other planets (and thus alien life).
• The sun was once (and may still be) in a binary star system.
• There was more than one species of man (suggesting evolution).
Are you a heretic in MY Bible? Would you like to burn MY Bible because of what it says? What does YOUR Bible say?
Have YOU ever read YOUR Bible?
Instead of leaving you hanging, I’ll explain:
Based on my reading of the Bible, the creation of our solar systems started on day four. The light from day one, the land and sky from day two and the trees from the third day were all references to other solar systems, planets and life on those planets.
The Bible refers to two big luminaries. While the second half of the verse might suggest that this is the sun and the moon, which both occupy half a degree of arc from Earth (thus the same size in human eyes), MY reading (which coincidentally can fit with a famous Talmudic passage regarding the moon) claims that there are two suns that contributed to our solar system’s gravity and mass of planets and moons.
The Bible talks about a number of tribes or species of people. The “Nefilim” or “fallen ones” could refer to a species not capable of walking erect. There are also B’nai Ha-Elohim and B’not Ha’adam, who were mating and thus causing problems which resulted in God bringing a flood to save Noah, whose ancestry, we are told, was perfect (there was no intermarriage with the other species).
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