Have you ever wondered why conservatives are called “the right” and liberals are called “the left.”
Well, let me tell you about a very unusual experience a friend told me.
One day recently, for some uncanny reason, as this friend was quietly pondering the above question---why conservatives are called "the right" while liberals are called "the left---a sudden and very strange urge came over him to pick up a copy of the New International Version (NIV) of The Bible sitting on a book shelf in his home.
As is common in American families and homes today, The Bible is left unopened for months---even years, and just collects dust. Yet, that one unusual instance, as this friend pondered the above question, the unusual urge came, and upon opening the book, the friend felt as though an "unseen force" guided him to open to Ecclesiastes 10, and then verse 2 seemed to immediately "jump out of the page". Why Ecclesiastes, which is not a commonly cited and quoted book in The Bible? This friend is at a complete loss for any explanation, and he did not even know Ecclesiastes was in or a part of The Bible! Anyhow, to this friend's utter surprise, Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV) read as follows: “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left .”
How this friend got the urge to open a dusty Bible and land on the above page is rather strange, to say the least. Even uncannier is the fact that the urge came at the very instant that he pondered the question, and the answer came instantly and spontaneously. Moreover, the unexplainable feeling that an "unseen force" guided him to a particularly obscure and uncommon portion of The Bible is even more enigmatic. While it could have been simple "coincidence", the strange urge, the feeling of an "unseen force", and circumstances associated with the experience totally defy its being left to "mere chance and coincidence".
Just in the interest of comparison and cross-reference of Ecclesiastes 10:2 in various translations/versions of The Bible:
>The King James (Protestant) version: "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left."
Well, let me tell you about a very unusual experience a friend told me.
One day recently, for some uncanny reason, as this friend was quietly pondering the above question---why conservatives are called "the right" while liberals are called "the left---a sudden and very strange urge came over him to pick up a copy of the New International Version (NIV) of The Bible sitting on a book shelf in his home.
As is common in American families and homes today, The Bible is left unopened for months---even years, and just collects dust. Yet, that one unusual instance, as this friend pondered the above question, the unusual urge came, and upon opening the book, the friend felt as though an "unseen force" guided him to open to Ecclesiastes 10, and then verse 2 seemed to immediately "jump out of the page". Why Ecclesiastes, which is not a commonly cited and quoted book in The Bible? This friend is at a complete loss for any explanation, and he did not even know Ecclesiastes was in or a part of The Bible! Anyhow, to this friend's utter surprise, Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV) read as follows: “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left .”
How this friend got the urge to open a dusty Bible and land on the above page is rather strange, to say the least. Even uncannier is the fact that the urge came at the very instant that he pondered the question, and the answer came instantly and spontaneously. Moreover, the unexplainable feeling that an "unseen force" guided him to a particularly obscure and uncommon portion of The Bible is even more enigmatic. While it could have been simple "coincidence", the strange urge, the feeling of an "unseen force", and circumstances associated with the experience totally defy its being left to "mere chance and coincidence".
Just in the interest of comparison and cross-reference of Ecclesiastes 10:2 in various translations/versions of The Bible:
>The King James (Protestant) version: "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left."
>The Douay (Catholic) version: "The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand."
>The Living Bible (Non-denominational) version: "A wise man's heart leads him to do right, and a fool's heart leads him to do evil." ["The left"---the fool's heart---is associated with evil(?)!]
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