(Q) said:
The Bible is not useless at all, those who know how to use it, use it well. As with everything else.
If you mean by useful, people use it for their own selfish desires to justify their fantasies, I agree. You do exactly that, as to all other theists here. Aside from that, it has little more use.
For a scientist, you are gravely sure of your assumptions.
Ah yes, another knee-jerk reaction. Is 'spiritual health' another term you just made up?
No, and you can understand it. Don't play stupid.
As per YOUR words again, no person on earth has the 'spiritual health,' to know god, since each individual has their own interpretation and understanding of the bible. Everyone misunderstands the bible, including you.
No, this doesn't follow. You have come to this conclusion because you believe that the subjective and the objective could never meet.
Unless of coures, you're going to take a stand and claim you alone know the correct interpretation of the bible, do you?
No.
God set the standards, and God gives everyone according to their share -- according to their will and ability.
Oh, so god doles out 'shares.' That would mean he does not treat everyone the same and decides who will have more of a share and who won't. I suppose my share was nil? I thought god treats everyone equal, which contradicts your claim.
So, does god dole out the same information in those shares? That must not be, as everyone has a different perception from their view. By creating a 'share' system, god is purposely trying to confuse everyone, and is not revealing his word correctly or accurately. Again, that is of no use to anyone if no one can agree.
Stop with this self-victimization logic, Q.
There are some other things you need to deal with first.
A religion is not psychotherapy, and psychoterapy doesn't make up for one's spiritual life.
It is, among other things, about understanding the true nature of things.
That's what science achieves. What does spiritual intelligence have to say about the nature of things? What have you learned from it?
Among other things, that sometimes, with some people, one cannot have a reasonable discussion.
If one keeps resorting to the so-called common sense, to some popularily accepted notions of what is reasonable, one thereby demonstrates a desire to not use his own spiritual intelligence, to refrain from it.
"Popularily accepted notions," as you term it, provides the answers to the nature of things from the evidence provided by... you guessed it; nature.
Yet, no one agrees on the nature of things using spritual intelligence, why is that?
Who is that and what authority do they have?
And most of all, why do you bother about them?
Why would god create a world with mountains of evidence NOT in favor of creation, but in favor of what you've termed, "popularily accepted notions?" Curious...
There is evidence for anything. It just depends on who is looking and for what.
And, you still have not answered the question, 'What is spiritual intelligence?"
Knowledge of spiritual matters, and the ability to come to this knowledge in the first place.
If you do a google search, you'll find many sites on it. There seems to be no unified understanding of SI, but this actually doesn't bother -- as it is essential that one finds one's own path, already existing philosophies are only skipping stones.
And now you've created another question, "What is spiritual health?"
How do you know you are physically healthy? It may seem relative, but we come equipped with a sense of what is physically healthy, and we can sharpen this sense.
Similar with spirituality.
Please define these terms accurately and show us what part of human anatomy makes up, controls and communicates with god?
The soul.
