Theme of the Bible (Jesus Christ, Earth, salvation, America, Holy Spirit)

[arthra]

To me the Bible is a library of books..some history...some literature...poetry...and it was revealed over say about a thousand years. So it is record of revelations and describes as a theme the relationship between God and man.

- Art

[SoyLeche]

Originally Posted by Sonic247

If we are all his children already why is the Mormon church always seeking new converts? Certainly a child of God has nothing to fear, since he is a righteous father.

There was a thread on that way back when: Converting believers.

There are probably a few more threads if you felt like looking for them

[Scuba Pete]

Originally Posted by angellous_evangellous

So what's the theme?

Man meets God, man leaves God, God wins man back with feats of personal sacrifice, God and man ride into the eternal sunset: together at last. I think that's the Cliff notes version.

[MidnightBlue]

Originally Posted by Scuba Pete

Man meets God, man leaves God, God wins man back with feats of personal sacrifice, God and man ride into the eternal sunset: together at last. I think that's the Cliff notes version.

I don't agree, but it's so well said that I'd frubal you if I could.

[DeepShadow]

Originally Posted by Sonic247

If we are all his children already why is the Mormon church always seeking new converts? Certainly a child of God has nothing to fear, since he is a righteous father.

An excellent question! I suppose the short answer, as I understand it, is that we are trying to put people in better contact with their Father. It's kinda connected to the Mormon understanding of the afterlife, but suffice it to say that we're less about saving a person from eternal hellfire and more about increasing his or her personal relationship with the divine.

That's my take, at any rate. If you want to discuss it further, we can resurrect SoyLeche's old thread or start a new one.

[capslockf9]

The theme is the practice in plagerism on the works of Horus, Sahar, Mar, and Baal.

[Darkness]

Originally Posted by Joe

There are books written about what on the surface are seeming conradictions, that when examined more closely are not. I have not found any that do not have a good theological explanation from top Biblical scholars.

I am sure good theologians can "prove" the Qur'an has no contradicts, as well as the Talmud and the Hadith.

[Autodidact]

Confining myself to the OT, some major themes seem to be:
1. This land which God gave you, kill everyone in it. (OR, alternatively, the land that God gave us, we killed everyone in it.)
2. How to properly sacrifice animals to God.
3. What you are allowed to eat and not eat, who you are allowed to have sex with/not have sex with, what you are allowed to wear, etc. etc.
4. I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other Gods before me. If you do, I will do terrible things to you.

Those four themes take up most of the pages of the OT.