How you read the Bible matters »
Posted by: calbear2000 1 year, 5 months agoThere are two basic ways to read the bible: diachronically and synchronically. To read the bible synchronically is to read the bible as a series of separate stories and to read the bible diachronically is to read the bible as one story.
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preacher651 year, 5 months ago
I prefere to read the Bible as the Word of God given to us as a way of life. The bible is a living Word that can only be understood with the help of the Holy Spirit of God.
You can know the bible by heart in your mind but unless you seek the wisdom of God by the Spirit you will never understand what it all means.
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earthlingerer1 year, 5 months ago
In as much as he is God, as part of the trinity (monotheism?) that comprises God, yes, he did in fact do all those things, but not as, or in the form of Man. He came as Man to share our pain, and dismiss the sin of all after him.
By the way, the fictional book you talk about is the Old Testament. It is the book of the blasphemous people that Jesus was born to. HE came in order to save their wicked and duplicitous "souls". Unfortunately, you MUST be a christian to go to heaven. Because Muslims follow the tenets of Jesus (fact), they get to go to heaven by default.
The Old Testament is a good book of stories, none really relevant to christianity, other than in the context that Jesus was born to Jews, who then turned on the son of God and killed him.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
You have got to be kidding! You think God would condemn all the Jews and all gays to hell just because of your interpretation of some chicken scratches written thousands of years ago? HAHAHA. What a pile of crap.
Please, enough of the religious items hitting the main page.
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jeffery11 year, 5 months ago
Boy are you wrong.
To understand Jesus you MUST understand the theology of the sectarians that used the texts comprising what we know as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Jesus conceived of by many Christians is a purely Pauline creation. The Jesus presented in the synoptic gospels is actually an amalgam of Zadokite Judaism, Gnosticism, Paulinism, et al.
Jesus viewed the Torah as the Law and would not accept the theology propounded by Paul and understood by Christians.
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icelander1 year, 5 months ago
The problem isn't what parts of the bible they want you to believe, but how much of it they want you to ignore.
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earthlingerer1 year, 5 months ago
Nothing in Iraq even resembles the description of the Tower of Babel.
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toph19731 year, 5 months ago
Someone says something is the tower of babel, and you believe it? There is no tower of Babel in Iraq. Again, there is not one thing in the bible that is factual. It was written by men that had wanted power, wealth and control. These people had no idea of the historical, biological, astrological, geological, fossil, or geographical records. With all of the evidence that we have it's a certainty that god does not exist.
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Daylight1 year, 5 months ago
preacher65
I prefere to read the Bible as the Word of God given to us as a way of life. The bible is a living Word that can only be understood with the help of the Holy Spirit of God.
Why is the Holy Spirit betraying the Christian who believe in Jesus and the Holy Spirit ad there are more than three thousand sects and denominations, and there are Bibles translated in hundreds of languages, and different versions? The easiest thing is for the Holy Spirit to guide them to read the Bible in single language and to make them believe in one single version and also make the Bible error free and stop the Bible from being revised all the time when it is printed. If this is the word of God, it needs no revision, no eddition and no deletion.
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RickyDawkins1 year, 5 months ago
Actually, if you think really hard, there is only one way to read the BIBLE.
Dumb, and dumber.
"How is it fair for God to have designed a world which gives such ambiguous testimony to his existence? How is it fair to have created a system where belief is the crucial piece, rather than being a good person? How is it fair to have created a world in which by mere accident of birth, someone who grew up Muslim can be confounded by the wrong religion? I don't see how the future of humanity is in good care with those competing orthodoxies."
Sam Harris
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17889148/site/newsw...
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Albmore1 year, 5 months ago
We read the old testament because this is were God reveals himself to man.Let me say again. Reveals himself to man. If the bible was a man inspired book we would had begun first trying to prove there is a God, but the first verse is "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" his existance is not in question. We also read it for the historical reasons. For proh., praise ect. The book of proverbs is also a great book on wisdom. We can be asure through the proph. of the old testament that Jesus is the Savior which fullfilled those proph. of his comming. Although no longer under the law it still important we understand the law. That we understand the reason for the need of our Savior. Paul wrote without the law he would not know what sin was. Icelander in the time of the old test. there was no forgiveness of the things you mentioned because Jesus had not yet come. Many reasons to read the old test.
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erik696911 year, 5 months ago
It really doesent matter how you read the Bible. Many different religions view the Bible differently, and interpret it differently. The only problem I see is when people just read the Bible to point out all the things wrong with it. Yes some things in the Bible contradict each other, such as there being 2 creation stories. But thats not a real problem. The Bible for the most part is not supposed to be taken word for word. Only a few religions read the bible that strictly. For most, like Catholics, the Bible is open to interpretation.
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icelander1 year, 5 months ago
A plurality of Americans believes that the six-day creation is 100% true. I would call that a bit more than "only a few."
Besides, who is to say what parts mean what if it's open to interpretation? And couldn't an omnipotent god create a work that is clear enough to not necessitate interpretation?
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erik696911 year, 5 months ago
If a god or ultimate could create something that everyone agrees with, then why would that god not be able to creat a world without malice or destruction? A point of interpretation is to let others know and understand what you believe so others can learn from that point of view, and either accept it or reject the interpretation. And the reason why a plurality of americans believe in the 6 day creation is because a plurality of americans are catholic or some type of christian.
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preacher651 year, 5 months ago
Food for thought, the road to heaven is narrow and few there be to find it but the road to hell is wide and many to go there at. Seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened. For some of you there will never be a revealing unless you seek with your whole heart, for others you have hardened your heart to many times and God has now hardened it for you so you will never believe.
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bscarb1 year, 5 months ago
Albmore - I think they are like schoolchildren who, when told something they do not want to be true put their hands over their ears and repeat loudly, "You can't prove it, you can't prove it, you can't prove it!" There is not much use in trying to convince people like that. Jesus argued with the Pharisees who were equally deaf to his word but it was to no avail.
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Albmore1 year, 5 months ago
Yes hay he have mercy. Hmac was proven wrong on a subject with me one time and when starting to lose the adiscussion he blocked the rest of the comments. This was a typical reaction that I expcted from him.
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RickyDawkins1 year, 4 months ago
"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."
Anyways, I like insulting religious folk, especially if that includes you NoSpineDave.
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hsamwilliams1 year, 4 months ago
Way too much to comment on. But I will try.
Insults are used to replace constrictive critism and weak arguments which do not depend on facts. This is done by both sides and is wrong period.
The bible has a great deal of evidence for it. But if a person chooses to not beleive they can find plenty of room for doubt. After all some do not believe men have landed on the moon and there is a lot more evidence for that.
GOD judges wicked behavior and defines wickedness. Anyone can argue with the definitions but that does not make GOD wrong.
Now we had one major antisemit comment. But that is as an AntiJESUS comment since he and all the founders of Christianity were JEWISH. The whole bible is Jewish in outlook which I would add to the good comments made by the orginal author of the article.
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