From: hiding5693@gmail.com   
      
   Sometimes I believe in the importance of the Ten Commandments more than I do   
   in the importance as such of the rest of the Bible. That might sound a bit   
   convoluted, since the Ten Commandments seem to be written with the pages of   
   the Bible itself. But it    
   really needn’t be regarded as so convoluted. After all, a literalist, which   
   I might mostly be, might believe that the Ten Commandments were written   
   directly by God, passed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. But the rest of the   
   Bible was written by Jews, who,   
    even if divinely inspired, were probably simply human beings.   
      
   Although I used to be a Roman Catholic and still believe a bit in Jesus   
   Christ, I tend to now focus most of my devotional energies on God and God   
   alone. A Christian might sometimes believe that Christ and God are one and the   
   same, by way of the Holy    
   Trinity. But I personally have my doubts about that. You see, although I tend   
   to wholeheartedly believe in the existence of God the Father, I am a bit   
   agnostic with regard to the divine nature of Christ. I suppose that in that   
   sense, I might be a bit of    
   a “doubting Thomas”, needing to see, that is, to have proof, in order to   
   believe.   
      
   That fact alone does not necessarily mean that my reality is completely devoid   
   of the magic of miracles. After all, I have already stated above that I   
   believe in the importance of the Ten Commandments, which, if handed down   
   directly from God to Moses,    
   might perhaps require a miracle of sorts.    
      
   For some certain subjective reason, I might be more impressed by the works of   
   Moses than by those of Jesus Christ alone. Christ might have allegedly   
   performed some awe inspiring miracles. But so too did Moses, such as the   
   conjuring of the Ten Plagues of    
   Israel and the parting of the Red Sea. Moses simply has a different ambiance   
   about him, at least to myself, seeming like a more crucial purveyor of God’s   
   word than the Christ. And nowhere in the “magic book” that certain   
   individuals refer to called    
   the Bible does Moses equate himself to being God himself, or the Son of God,   
   as Christ might have done, and which I, for further, subjective reasons, might   
   find to be a bit spiritually crass.   
      
   Although I am no longer necessarily a Christian, I am not a Jew, as some might   
   assume from my possible affinity for Moses and the Ten Commandments, or a   
   Muslim either, preferring to instead, as I have mentioned within this   
   newsgroup in the past, simply    
   call myself a Theist.    
      
   As a Theist, I do not so much believe in the existence of outer space aliens,   
   by the way. Although I do try to keep an open mind to the possibility that   
   aliens do in fact exist, for the most part I am a skeptic. I do not find it   
   necessary, for instance,    
   to believe that either God, Satan, or the angels are alien beings of some   
   kind, even though I do believe in the possible existence of such entities.   
      
   Trust in God,   
   Dan   
      
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