The Lords My Shepherd - Inspirational hymns

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

OHHHHH how i long for God in my heart! I dont know what to do??!!!! i pray and everything else...But sometimes i tend to go back to my old ways but i still repent! i guess i have to mean it...

Beautiful hymn!!

You're confused by the Bible? Wait until you start reading Shakespeare's sonnets. :l

Your point is well taken about the Bible and Shakespeare's Sonnets. But the Sonnetts don't make a claim to eternal life. Consider the Bible as an owner's manual. Would you buy a car if the owner's manual was confusing and spoke in symbolism? "Beloved, if thy radiator is half full, even now put it to overflowing lest in the final hours of thine trip thee find thyself cast into outer darkness along the road to Zion."

The Bible _will_ confuse you if you see it as A is A. Even the branch of Christendom which takes the Book as word-for-word truth admits it contains symbolism. To expand on your metaphor: the Bible can't be used to repair your car. (It won't stop you from using a car manual.) It can be used to ask if you should use a car as a statusmobile, a piece of property, or a hand-off to some silly organization. You'd be wrong to ask these questions of your manual.

The Eternal Almighty does create evil.

''I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these''.

.....''shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it''?

In Deuteronomy the Lord promises blessing for obedience and a curse for disobedience. How could He promise cursing if He couldn't provide it.
Lets get a firm grip here folks and don't try and make the Almighty to be less than He is....Almighty! amen!

You are under a misapprehension. Evil is a marring of what is. It is not "created," much less created by God. Adultery is sex marred by the breaking of a promise. God makes the relationship. "It is not right for the man to be alone." _We_ mar it: we do evil.

I am not under a misapprehension because what I have said is from the scriptures which are the revealed will and nature of the Almighty. You however deny the scriptures and create a god in the imagination of your heart.
I'm fully aware a ''great leader'' once said evil is the absence of good, but that is a load of bunkum from a man who didn't know the Almighty.The same man said darkness is simply the absence of light another case of bunkum!
''If'' you believe the scriptures?

You ignored what I said. Evil is not the absence of good. It is the perversion of good. Evil is a parasite on good and on pleasure. I hold to the scriptures: "In [God] is light, and no darkness at all."