The Bible

"Oh kneel for me I am the savior of fear and filth, so be still."
-Be Still, Bright Light Fever

I have this very bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. It's unnerving and unsettling, not unlike watching an earthquake open up and swallow something. And like that earthquake, its too big and unwieldy to do anything with.

I have a terrible suspicion that somebody read the Bible wrong.

It's a grounded suspicion, as it is something still being discussed today. It was compiled years after the fact, translated and copied again and again, so it is perfectly understandable that people could debate its validity and meaning. And for the most part, I agree with the idea that some ideas and passages are too vague to be understood at first glance, or not applicable in today's society. Many passages have become convoluted and worked out to no avail with time, but there was one passage in our reading that stood out, and it made me very scared.

"I have put my truth in your innermost mind, and I have written it in your heart. No longer does a man need teach his brother about God. For all of you know Me, from the most ignorant to the most learned, from the poorest to the most powerful."

We, and this is a vague term meant to encompass today's world and the people that acted to make it what it is, have killed people on the exact opposite premise of this direct quote. Wars started in direct opposition of these unbelievable simple lines. People are gone, and these lines meant to save them have only outlived them.
Virtually every early civilization, tribe, hut collective, city, town, fishing hole, and cave grouping had its own creation myth. From the Coyote Tales to the Egyptian narratives, every civilization had an explanation or reasoning for why existence exists. More importantly, they all had a God. Be it many Gods, a few Gods, or one God, they all agreed that something beyond simple reasoning had made things as they were. Now comes my terrible suspicion: what if all of these myths were through God? What if Christianity's one God is the only God (as many believe), and that, through him, these myths were founded? The Bible states, as I quoted above, that "all of you know Me," and that "I have put my truth in your innermost mind." If God is telling the truth, as I feel compelled to believe He is, than every noted time a man has gone to another man and said "look at my God," they were acting in direct opposition of God's word.

I used the opening lyric of Bright Light Fever's "Be Still" to illustrate my point: so many people over time have used quotations and reasoning from the Bible to prove and put forth their own points. Does that make any of it right?