Tremor, you be right, i believe that the word of god is his word, but man being man, it is hard to figure out which bits he's edited and which he's kept....when the race is run, i believe and feel, that he is interested in two things,
1, how you are ?
2, What lays in your heart
i don't belive him to be sitting there with a big feather pen scratching into his book daming you like,
'' never done this, nope never done that, can't believe you did this.o0o0o00oo you're going to hell for that ''
I simply refuse to believe god, would damn someone who commits suicide. I've seen and heard Christians blast people who have known someone who took their own lives, with fire in their eyes and venom spewing from the mouth, and i simply refuse to believe that the creator of this mighty awesome universe, would attack a young girl who in her darkest hours of her young life was alone,scared,in fear and desperate! i wouldn't expect the creator to come down in a bolt of lightning, but i would expect him to pick her up when she's made her choice and vanish all her troubles and put her by his side.
and i'd also like to think he'd have a stern stern word with those who preach hell, i'd expect him to ask them what it is, they know of this hell they preach, '' Good enough for the goose, good enough for the gander.''
Brimstone stone preachers are like those Uni students you get who say '' so what you're saying is *********** '' then they try and tell YOU what your Opinions are.....i trust that, not even god likes being spoken to like that.
i think this means god is more of an artist, than an administrator. Crossing the T's and dotting the I's is something he'll reserve for those who insist on using their free will for evil in the world, and i think this is his endeavour, to show mankind that in all their brilliance, they still need him, but you will have the opertunity to refuse his vision for you. man may be made in his image, but it's an image man can't live upto, and one glance at the world confirms that.
You don't wake up and walk into the highlands, and lay your eyes on all that resides in the heather filled highlands and fail to understand you are looking at the best portrait ever known to man, no 3-d glasses needed, or admission fee, you don't even need eyesight or your hearing, the very fact you are alive, will give you access to the second grandest exhibition of them all.... the 1st, being the one he will unvail when we've shot our ammo.
just my thoughts....
ps,
The book of revelations is probably the best climactic ending to a book i've ever read lol.
I love it when I hear things like this. Some people would call it a miracle or whatever, but I believe otherwise.