Anything that is from the Bible will always be intriguing and controversial. I should and must leave the Bible stories to the priest, ministers and seminarians. They will be enlightened once they are inside the seminary, inside the Church and mingle with the people and what they believed in will certainly bother their conscience. Truth is when religion is taking seriously out of context or whether you have included the page, verse, and where it originally appeared from the Holy Bible then the more you are "excommunicated" from the very religious sect wherein they were "actually non-sinners." They have without sin but they always have to pray for the forgiveness of sins. Mmmmmm...should leave that to every individual how saintly they are. But I must inform you that the millennium is a thing of the past. It's already year 2013 and one more month and it's 2014 Yeeha!.
About the witness to a certain robbery and thieving? My God! How many of us are witnesses to such gravely sin. Thou shalt not steal is one of the commandments made and engraved by Moses on slabs of stones during his time while being on top of Mt. Sinai. He didn't realized that he commanded the many Jews away from Egypt, took their belongings, and they wandered outside the Pharaoh's empire. The food they took is not enough through the long journey that they end up eating manna that they have to consume right away because for the next day those manna will become rotten maggots. Yikkes.
When sometimes simple explanation to what you can perceive and READ can lead you to KNOW what logic, what understanding you have to be on guard with.
At the time of Dr. Jose Rizal, during the Spanish regime in the Philippines, Filipinos were forbidden to read the Holy Bible simply because the interpretation might be crucial and will cause pandemic and revolt. Besides, the book was written in Latin and who can read Latin that period of time eh? It is the Book of Truth of what really happened during the early years of Jesus and His Clan. Every sins, every wrongdoings are recorded. There are records of GOODness and kindness, compassion, faith and of the TRUTH. However, The Book tackled with murder, incest, lying, bullying, ethnic cleansing, corruption, adultery, sodomy, epidemic, pandemic, war, great flood, pandemonium, slavery, filth, dirt, sickness, diseases hard to cure and without cure, rotten flesh, zombies, so much death, barbaric deaths, anihiliation of entire tribes, alienation, the worst of all worse comes to worst and evil. Yes in that Bible, Jesus proved that evil is real. There were human trafficking too. The brothers of David trapped him underneath the ground and sold him to a passersby but David is good and not evil he managed to save his evil brothers from getting hungry during the great plague and drought.
If you will read the whole Bible you'll find out that everything is happening like a repetition in our generation. Repetitive events that you and I are helpless from such "normal" flow of living in a dangerous planet. Normal eh? Because the lives of today is based on the Holy Bible that our religious ancestors believed to be the Code of Ethics and Code of Life.
Know what? I am not helpless. I have to defy everything that is wrong!
