The issue when reciting these is the people who don't hold the bible in such high regard, simply see you reading this scripture as nothing more than you reading a fictitious novel written by a 1st century author. They just turn their head to the side and curl their nose. You have every right to pick and choose your favorite sentences/paragraphs and unravel/decipher them to equate to a meaning that best fits the message you feel most driven by; however, understand that to others it very well sounds like crazy man talk. It just does. That's not to hinder you from your own beliefs but to educate you on what others who don't believe, see when you do that. Like what do you think if/when you would hear someone perform an exorcism? Would you shake your head and gasp?
- "Friend, I understand the pain of this world" but as the all mighty creator, there is nothing I can do?
- To that, "we live here and can't escape it?" What? Why do we have to set forth a world where escaping is something we even would want to do? He created this place just as he wanted because he could.
- So his mission is to expect people to believe random stories that completely defy logic off nothing but blind faith? To bend on one knee to thank and worship this creator? What great person in your life do you know asks you to bend on a knee and thank them for the greatness they exude? And if you don't, they say you shall burn for eternity. You see a savior and a guy we should be looking up to and worshiping? Sounds more ruthless than the "put the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again" guy....