Someone explain to me how the Bible is used for control?

Huh?

2nd Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for instruction in righteousness

First, ignore most of the idiots speaking, without historical, or factual context.

1- The Bible is simply a series of stories, plagiarized from countless other "bibles", of other cultures. SPECIFICALLY, the "Old Testament" is heavy on the rip-offs. That does NOT mean it does not contain factoids of the old, OLD world, and even some interesting REAL sign-posts to the REAL world, or that it is basically the Code of Hammurabi with story time, just swap around some action-figures.

2- Before the Bible...was the rest of the real world. And in that real world, there were tons of fake "Gods" that didn't do anything, and are still not proven to exist. Better yet, realize that "Kings" and "Gods" were interchangeable at the will of "Kings" and "Gods"...and whatever scribes showed up later to swap those words around, because their King or God said to do so. Rewriting history is a full-time job, they have been doing it for the entirety of human history. Which seems really petty for a "God" to want to do....

3- If someone has to sit down, generation after generation, and rewrite, or "approve/disapprove" of stuff going into it, or out of it....how exactly is that NOT used for control? STRICTLY limiting a STRICTLY limited source of information is automatically "control" of the entire population that comes into contact with it. It is called Propaganda, and there hasn't been a civilization yet that has not used it.

4- The "New Testament" has absolutely nothing to do with the "Old Testament". One is from hucksters, and the other is of a dude cruising through the Old World laying down some common sense, in the form of stories.

The "Old Testament" is just people wandering around, being told what to do by interchangeable, swappable Gods. It also says they are the "MOST special", because a God showed up one day, and said, "Hey...contract with ME, instead of that other God over there, and YOU can be awesome, just like me!". On the other side of the fence...everyone else did the same exact thing. You just don't read THOSE "bibles".

The "New Testament" had nothing to do with the old.
Why "Christians" would pray to a Jew God is beyond me.
He ain't MY God, and he clearly says since I ain't a Jew...I don't count. Sounds like "control" to me.....

Then again, in the "New Testament", Christ never writes his own book, which is weird. But wise he was, and he was NOT Jewish (old argument...but a TRUE one). "King" James had the English version of the Bible translated and printed...and then magically, the SECOND printing contained very quiet "revisions"...just like the Council of Nicea. If these things were THAT powerful, you would either NEVER print it and let the "masses" get ahold of it, or you would YOUR way. Sounds like control to me. They never EVER have "revised" something WITHOUT controlling it first.

That is why I like the Hindu Cow People of India.
Their Gods don't do jack shit, and many times, one god will split into 5 gods, and have an ass-kicking contest with his ownself. Just because it is "old", does NOT make it true, right, or correct. MUCH LESS "history", unless you mean....HIS STORY.

Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian...etc., are NOT the oldest legends (which always contain some fact, and real history), but for the "alternative freaks" looking for fake history of Aliens, it does the job right.

Harry Potter fans, and Star Wars fans should REALLY love the Sumerian stuff. The problem is when you have knotheads claiming one story from one dude, now long dead, is somehow MORE fact than another dude somewhere else, when in FACT, they have NOTHING verifiable between the two to begin with.

Sounds like control to me. People been doing it LONG before the KGB, CIA, NSA or any of the others even REMOTELY thought they were good at it.

Whatever "God" or "Gods" built all the systems, programming and machines (termed- "Life") is completely ignored....but THIS is a true fact-

Nobody on the face of THIS Earth can tell you anything except their personal opinion. ZERO verifiable FACT.

JUST because you WANT your "God" to have built everything, and you write a "bible" about it....does NOT mean your "God" version ever did.

These weak and petty "Gods" don't even show up, and never do anything but get mad at you for cussing, and punch each other in the sides of the head. Pick a "God", and "gods", or more than one if you want...the result is the same.

I know that I do NOT know, and I also know...nobody else does either.

The beneficiary IS the elite.

WHO OWNS all the mega churches??

THEY do....

WHO do all the main leaders bow to..THE POPE...

Did you know that ALL the major players..like hinn and copeland and all the other big names ALL bow to the pope??

and WHO does the POPE bow to??

THE ELITE!

FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL..and you will SEE..teh WHY of the "Control" of the masses of the deluded.

I see you are under control to use verse even it is irrelevant to my point.


My point is do you dare to challenge the verse if you think it is wrong.

Do as it says or you are punished for all eternity and it divides people.

The Bible is used as a crutch by mentally ill people that are not able to read something once, assimilate it intellectually, apply metaphor where needed and move on with their intellectual processes.

"The Bible" is a cult of dullards essentially.

Jesus never told anyone to exclusively submit to an instruction manual, now did He?

Did I say that? I thought I made the point that a relationship with God is most important but that the Bible helps us with what God wants for us.

Thats a sect though. Catholics follow the pope and there is a difference between Christians and Catholics. BIG Difference. Not to say what you're saying isnt true but its not like the Pope is the head of the Christian church

Yes..he IS....thats WHY all the mega church "Christian" leaders all bow to him.

Sure..they might not be into the mary worship crap..but they follow the MAIN tennants of the catholic church..which boild down to.."OBEY US OR BURN!!!"

And like I said...follow the MONEY trail...it always leads back to the ELITE!

I am responding to your THREAD TITLE. I tend to do that.

Okay. Here are a few points to ponder:

1. It teaches us that being rich is paramount to being evil. It is easier, after all, for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven.

Make sure that you sabotage yourself so that you never become rich. If you do... you're going to hell.

This is supported with the idea that money is the root of all evil. So if you enjoy having money, appreciate it and welcome it into your life, you are welcoming evil. You are bad because you are enjoying and appreciating having money.

So the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer... because the poor believe it's the only way to get into heaven. While the rich know that's just utter crapola.

2. As pointed out, it teaches you to continue to wait for someone to come save you.

3. It teaches that humans are inherently bad, inherently evil. What does psychology teach us? That a child, convinced he or she is evil, will act as such.

But then it combines this with enough guilt and shame to keep you from actually acting out... so you are stuck in a dynamic mental cage of being too evil to live, yet being required to follow a multitude of rules and laws you never can.

So it continues to support the viewpoint of the "humans are evil" by making laws impossible to truly follow. Many christians use this to point out that humans obviously need salvation, because they can't follow all the rules...

But the rules aren't made to be followed. They are intentionally prohibitive and excessive.

4. It ensures that the peons (that's you and me) continue to procreate more slaves, and to willingly indoctrinate their children into slavery, as well as remain willingly in it themselves.

5. The whole concept of tithe is purposed to further remove you from your money.

6. It prevents education and free thinking. There are multiple places where you are terrorized out of free thinking: Lean not upon your own understanding; none of the scriptures are for personal interpretation, etc.

7. It represses all religions that could possibly compete against it and end its theological political ideology. Consider how many cultures have been destroyed UTTERLY because they were labeled "heathen" and how often people even now are warned away from even LISTENING to other religious ideologies.

Because it is not only exclusive, but because it also demonizes every other religion actively, it creates an atmosphere where it is self-perpetuating through terrorization (believe or burn is a terrorist tactic).

8. It cuts you off from genuine spiritual interaction with God by lying about God. It teaches on the one hand that God is violent, brutal, sociopathic, jealous, and generally cruel and insecure.

At the same time, it says that God is love, which teaches what? That love is violent, brutal, sociopathic, jealous, abusive, etc.

Because of this, rather than a genuine love of God, most people convert to christianity out of fear of hell. Which is because this dude is just NOT lovable until AFTER you become indoctrinated to excuse away the violence, brutality, etc.

9. It teaches a contrary concept to begin with. The FOUNDATION of Christianity is the need for a "savior". But the KEY to this idea is... a savior from WHAT?

THAT THE WRATH OF GOD is what you need to be saved from.

What is more controlling than "believe my religion that teaches you that rich people are going to hell and you should hate money (and give it to the clergy), or you are going to be burned BY GOD"???

I mean I hear this statement all the time but never an explanation. Anyone care to try or are yall talking out the side of your necks?

God created man. What fact do you have to support that "people had God before the Bible"?

Oh, and by the way, one more point I'd like to make, too.. is that it even openly admits one of its main purposes.

The foundation of a powerful society is family:

I come not to bring peace, but a sword. A man's enemies shall be the members of his own household. I come to turn a daughter against her mother, a son against his father, etc.

Yep, Jesus said that. This is the real purpose of the bible: Divide the people so that they cannot unite (they would become capable of anything, let us go down and confuse their language), and to destroy the family unit.

it divides people.

Oh, and by the way, one more point I'd like to make, too.. is that it even openly admits one of its main purposes.

The foundation of a powerful society is family:

I come not to bring peace, but a sword. A man's enemies shall be the members of his own household. I come to turn a daughter against her mother, a son against his father, etc.

Yep, Jesus said that. This is the real purpose of the bible: Divide the people so that they cannot unite (they would become capable of anything, let us go down and confuse their language), and to destroy the family unit.

FEAR!

The Old Testament is FEAR-based.