The Bible is an account of a journey. The journey to...

The Bible is an account of a journey. The journey to salvation.
Like any journey contradictory things happen and out of this contrdictions wisdom arises.
And it is this wisdom that should lay the foundation for our lives.
We have wisdom tradituions in Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Muslim cultures. I regret to say that these traditions have often fought eac h other violently and been the cause of great scandal.
It is and was the ego in us and in religion that formed the root of this violence and scandal.
Jihad in the Muslim tradition is about laying waste the ego. And it is the massive egos of Al quaida etc that has turned this real wisom of Islam on its head...............interrperrsonal violence and mastery from the wisom of personal mastery