sineporf wrote:Cathar1950 wrote:sineporf wrote:then something isn't wrong with what the bible says. There is something that doesn't sit right with you when you try to interpret it.
Sounds like a rather dangerously esoteric if not insane way to interpret the Bible, If it gives you inner peace, and the Bible is never wrong, which amounts to how it makes you feel.
It sounds like there might have a problem with the difference between emotion and spirituality with little regard for context or content. Just go with however or whatever you "feel".
You seem to grasp my idea well. I've never read the Bible fully. A book is written as it is intended, or is it? If it is, then you should do the research and find what those words truly mean. If it isn't, then it can be whatever you want it to be.
Its sounds like you just need to learn how to interpret scripture. For example, you have an old testament and a new testament. first you must get a good bible dictionary. Find out what is a "testament", "covenant" and "will".
Next, disect the groups of books in the bible. Let's see you have the Torah(the first 5 books of the bible) the book of psalms, proverbs, and ecclesiastes; and the prophets in the old testament. The old testament is just that old. It is the former covenant of God. Knowing this we know that it contains fulfilled prophecies and prophecies that have not been fulfilled. Also, it contains scientific explainations for what we see and hear. The old testament speaks of events theat took place in history and gives us information of things which we would have not known. For example, even though blacks are trated as second class citizens in the world this is not so in the bible. for example, Ham was the son that was cursed by Noah for viewing his nakedness. What did Noah tell Ham? "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren"(genesis 9:25)
Abraham's name was originally Abram. But Abram's family (Terah-his father, etc were worshipping the gods of the peoples(specifically the moon god and goddesses. God told Abram to leave and go to the land he will show him. Ham was abraham's great uncle. God changed Abram's name to Abraham after sending him to the land of Canaan. Now how do we know that Canaan was the ancestor of us African Americans in the US? Let's take at look at God's covenant with Abraham. Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them for 400 years? What group of people were slaves for 400 years?hmmm thats an easy one.
The bible says that the new testament was in the blood of Jesus. This means that the new testament did NOT start until Christ died. This also means that the gospel accounts are historical. We can get "words to live by" but not much doctrine because Jesus taught the law and the prophets due to the price not yet being paid.
Acts is a book telling what took place immediately after the ascension of Christ back into Heaven. Doctrine cannot be taken from this book. The only doctrinal statements in the book of Acts and the Gospels are the ones that Jesus made dealing with his death, (such as John 3:16, John 8:24, Matthew 16:16-19, John 6:47 etc.) Next, we have the apostolic epistles written by Paul, Peter, James, John, Jude, and the book of Hebrews written by Apollos who was not known as an Apostle, but the writing style was Alexandrian where Apollos was from. Last but not least, you have the book of revelation. When interpreting scripture one must separate subjects and items mentioned into separate columns and write every scripture down which mentions it. For example, white robes, the seventh trumpet, forgiveness of sin, eternal life, all subjects must be separated by testament and its scriptural mentioning. If you learn how to do this, it will not matter what translation you use, all will be similar.
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