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You would think that reading the bible would start at the first page of the OT and read from there. If the bible is gods word, you think it would be understood without a religious leader telling you about it, or how to read it.
Everything written or spoken can actually be interpreted in more than 1 way. Even if I right, "Oh!". That's one word which can actually mean so many things.
Put in the context of a response to a surprise party, it's a reaction of happy surprise.
Put in the context of getting sad news, it's a reaction of sadness or disappointment.
I could go on and on but no. Your assumption is wrong. Also, the books of the Bible don't actually tell stories of God telling his people to write down stories. He actually uses people and a hierarchy to make sure his people are guided. In the Old, it was called the seat of Moses. In the New, he built his church on Peter the apostle.
Saying that there are right ways and wrong ways to read the Bible just means that God was a bad writer or that he obscured the real meaning of his writings intentionally just out of spite or who knows why. In any either case, it leaves the supposedly all-knowing all-powerful divine being looking very bad. If God cannot write his manual on behavior in a simple straightforward way to make himself, his intentions and instructions clearly understandable, then it is a very poor deity. If a salesman presented to his boss an instruction manual as confusing as the Bible, he would be fired on the spot.
aperez241,
According to the biblical fairy tale the only thing Yahweh wrote was the Ten Commandments on stone tablets. He did it twice. Everything else was supposedly written by guys who had been in spirit-induced trances. IOW, they made it up.
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?search=inspired&version=CEB;CJ...
There will always be right and wrong ways of reading any text. That's why God didn't leave us with just a book. Like you said, simply leaving a book and having humanity go at it would make for an irresponsible God. In fact, in Christian tradition, there was no Bible in the first 3 centuries. The first religious texts (NT) came 5 years or more after Jesus death. Even the Bible never says to people to, "write so that people in 2017 can understand"
It says that Jesus told his apostles to preach. God left us with a Church. That church compiled the Bible. That church is still preaching. And that church is still hated by a lot of people today. No other church is actually claiming this, except the Roman Catholic Church.
Why would the Bible need to say "write so people in 2017 will understand" when Jesus was coming back to end the world as we know it???????
Is that what you think the second coming is? If so, then you don’t get it. The Bible doesn’t need to be plain and simple in our standards. What it needs to do is be understandable in every age.
Today, we do have more tools of understanding the Bible than we did 1000 years ago. But it’s still an ancient book and it had to be understandable in the early centuries for it to be of any use back then.
We also have more tools to debunk it.
Fair enough. It's not happening though.
People who wrote the Bible were guided by God, supposedly or they did it without his guidance. In the first case, that God was so lousy that they ended up with contradictions and really unclear writing, that led to many different sects and cults. So much for an all-powerful, all-knowing deity who supposedly wanted his rule to be followed. If they did it by themselves, then the Bible is not sacred at all but the work of men who wrote it badly.
The Bible actually deals with such “contradictions” or confusions. The answer is one people don’t want to hear though. Or at least one people choose not to hear.
There IS a proper way to read the bible. Read the title then just walk away as fast as you can.
Lol. That's one way. Hahaha.
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