Exactly what do you believe in?
In a word:
TRUTH.
You've made both true and false points so far. It's like you believe in multiple religions, but everything you've said about the Bible so far was you believing everything that will take place is symbolic.
Not at all. What's been personally written and shared on this forum has been very well-researched, often times for many years, to be certain of its veracity.
What people will find, if they take an
honest look at this world, is that
ALL of its major institutions are
NOT what they appear to be. People
mistakenly think governments are "of the people, by the people, and for the people" because that's what we've been told. But they aren't. Governments are corporations, working to improve their bottom-line regardless of what that means for everyone and everything else, just like all corporations do. And all of these corporate governments are owned by the banks,
NOT by the people, which should explain why no matter who gets voted into office, nothing ever changes, except for the worse.
The very same thing is true of
ALL organized religion, whether it be Talmudic Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shinto, etc. They are all corporations, masquerading as religious institutions, who make enormous profits selling the lies their paying customers want to hear. The biggest and worst of them all: Roman Catholicism, the largest business empire on Earth.
Take any organized religion and research it in depth. You will find that
NONE of them actually follow any of the texts they claim to be based upon. Talmudic Judaism has everyone fooled into believing they're living by The Law (Torah) when they obviously aren't, and
never did. The Talmud that they actually follow is against The Law.
The same goes for Christianity, which has absolutely nothing to do with Christ or Christ's
TRUE Teachings. Christ very clearly said that He did
NOT come to destroy The Law, which is still in effect today, and always will be. "Christians" then come along, and
mis-interpret the letters of Paul so they can then claim we don't have to obey God anymore. In fact, it's so bad that most of the 2 billion people who call themselves "Christians" apparently can't even count to three, or enjoy contradicting Christ, because Christ said His body (Jesus) would be in the heart of the earth for 3 days
AND 3 nights. Obviously Friday night and Saturday night (between "Good" Friday and Easter/Ishtar Sun-day morning) are
NOT 3 nights.
Islam does the very same thing, claiming to be a "complete" religion, while ignoring multiple references in the Koran commanding its readers that they
MUST read The Law and the Gospel. How else would they know what is right and wrong (only found in The Law - the first five books of the Bible)? And without reading about Christ, Who is
THE Way, they lack The Example we
MUST all follow (found only in the Gospel accounts of Jesus). And, just like their counterfeit Jewish and "Christian" counterparts, "Muslims" have made up their own book, called the Hadith, in direct contradiction to the Scriptures.
Today more than ever, there is no shortage of people who are willing to give their opinions about any subject, regardless of how ignorant of a subject they may be. As someone who has actually read The Old Covenant, New Covenant and Koran a number of times, including the books that that the churches
wrongly removed (e.g. Enoch, 2 Esdras, the Gospel according to Thomas and the final third of the book of Revelation) it's possible to share with others the truth that all 3 books are part of the Scriptures, as they all share common historical references and the same message about obeying God only.
With regard to symbolism, over two-thirds of the Bible is prophecy, over 99% of which has already taken place in exact and minute detail. Only a fool would look at that track record, and think that the remaining >1% would not likewise be fulfilled in exact and minute detail. So the Bible can
literally be taken as the most accurate historical document on the planet
IF it is properly understood. But like anything of real value, it
MUST be studied in detail with an open-mind and most importantly it
MUST be studied with our Creator Guiding us. There is some decoding necessary, which the Bible uses to keep idiots from interfering with it.
This very thread was shared to draw others closer to Father (God, Whose Name is the "I AM" - YHWH in Hebrew), and hopefully increase their faith in the process, when they begin to see what has been prophesied to happen for almost 2000 years come to fruition.
Do you think the whole Bible itself is symbolic, because some things in the Bible are literal- not everything in the Bible is symbolic. I honestly don't know what to think of you, and I do not mean this in a bad way.
No, the Bible is
NOT just a book of symbolism, as many claim, nor is it a "religious" text, at least not in the sense that word is used today. it is an instruction manual for spiritual Beings (Souls), a historical text, and a Covenant (lawful agreement) between us and our Creator. And it is absolutely to be taken literally, to apply to each and every one of us, beginning with The Law.