the omenator

I wish there was a scary font that I could write in! I just watched "The Omen 666"...I know, where was I 4 years ago when it came out!? I was busy with a 6 month old and a 2 year old, living in upstate NY...but I digress.

Watching movies like that always make me want to do LOTS of research...unfortunately, they also put my faith...or maybe its lack of faith...they put me to the test. See...I don't really know how I feel about God...I know how I feel about other people believing in God...I'm all for it! I don't think that any one person has the right to tell another person that they believe the wrong thing...none of us really "know" the truth...we think we do, but we don't. I love when people quote the Bible as if it really were holy scripture...I heard a quote once, it said "The Bible wasn't faxed down from Heaven." If you can't figure out what that means, it means that God didn't write the Bible, man did...or several men did in fact...God didn't drop it off on anyone's doorstep, or take it to a publisher, men wrote it. The authors are even named! Maybe you've heard of them, there's John, Luke, Matthew, Mark...there are others but you get the picture. The point is, none of them are actually Jesus...they tell you what Jesus said, but the Bible wasn't actually written in English to begin with. It was written in Hebrew (the Old Testament) because it was a Jewish book, and the New Testament was written in Greek...I don't know about you, but I can't read Hebrew or Greek, so even if I saw an original copy of the Bible, I couldn't tell you what it says! I do know that the Bible has been changed over the years...even if it wasn't done maliciously (which, when you consider mankind it probably was malicious) there are somethings that just don't translate well, and words got changed and the meanings of stories changed...it's just a fact that there are words in other languages that we don't have a meaning for so we just use the closest thing we can think of, but it doesn't always work.

More tomorrow...tired now.