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Bible Study Correct Interpretation/s
- Thread starter twinc
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Anything in the Bible that can only be taken literally is correct.
It's symbolic and figurative interpretations that cause problems.
th1b.taylor
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The world cries Circular Reasoning but the Bible interprets itself, making it a necessity to read the entire Book, often. i.e. Predestination: Neither of the two major camps in the arena of Christianity have a solid grip on the subject because they have Tunnel Vision in order to arrive at being a Calvinist or an Arminian. What I mean is they throw some scriptures into the doesn't matter file or into the not God's Word file. However, in 2Tim 3:16 we find that all of the scriptures are good for teaching or learning.
God is Omnipotent. (Heb 1:3) God is also Omniscient. (Job 11 7:11) as our Omnipotent God, there is nothing He cannot do as our Omniscient, there is no place ae any time we can hide from Him, He is limitless.
Our Time/Space Continuum does not contain our God for He is the Creator of it also. (John 11-3) We must learn that we know nothing of our God except that, which He has revealed to us. God the Father and
God the Holy Spirit are just as Jesus once was, without physical body, they are spirits that can move through our realm and are not by what was created for us.
Now, I know this is hard to wrap the Head around but God, residing outside of our realm sees the Past, right now. is present in the Right Now, and the reason the Book of Life, the proof of Predetermination, is because He was watching the future befor He created the first thing.
Wrap your head around this and our God becomes a loving, just God that has no fault.
Not_Now.Soon
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Twinc, if I can ask, how long have you been a Christian? I know for some it's hard to read the bible, but if you give it an effort and pray for God to help you while you read; then I'm sure over time you will be less concerned with what are correct interptations and what are not. I say this because you will have God helping you with your studying and with time you'll be able to recoginize if something is correct or incorrect based on your bibical understanding.
Papa Zoom
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It's best to adopt a humble orthodoxy. Be firmly planted in your beliefs but not dogmatic. Be flexible toward others and charitable. No one has perfected Biblical interpretation. The Bible says we see through a glass dimly. 1 Corinthians 13:12 We can see images, just can't fully make them out. Yes some things are clear and worth "fighting" for but many issues are peripheral and grace and charity is called for.
I learn a lot from reading the posts of others. Some posts confirm my beliefs and other posts challenge them. That is as it should be. You need friction if you are to sharpen the blade. Proverbs 27:17
I learn a lot from reading the posts of others. Some posts confirm my beliefs and other posts challenge them. That is as it should be. You need friction if you are to sharpen the blade. Proverbs 27:17
not at all - the blade is already sharp and friction would and does only blunt it - twinc
not at all - it seems not - claimed by many but just has not happened - only confusion to confusion and division to division - twinc
th1b.taylor
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God gave us the sword fr an illustration and it is an anology that you clearly do not understand. Go purchase yourself a good High Carbon Steel Knife, a Strop and an Oil Stone and the pass the knife over the stone just as if you want to cut, precisely two thousandths of an inch off the surface, the friction does not dull the blade.
th1b.taylor
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The Sacred and Living Word of God is the Teacher and we are the Disciples seeking always to learn more.
th1b.taylor
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Hello TwinC
It would be very nice if there were only one interpretation of all scripture. One church. Just like Jesus wanted.
1 Corinthians 1:10
Ephesians 4:3-6
and more...
I do wonder at times why the Hindu religion does not experience the same problem we do - division. Also Krishna, for that matter. He left much written and made everything very clear.
Why didn't Jesus do this? We are told that He came to set up a church and I sometimes wonder about this. Maybe He really came to give us a different way of living our life. The Kingdom way. Repent, for the Kingdom is at hand.
Mathew 3:2
Why didn't Jesus write anything down? I would assume that it's for the same reason that the other religions are different from Christianity. Jesus came not to write, but to die so that we might have life. Now and after. And so it is a life eternal.
When I want to learn something, I like to go back as far as possible close to the time that Jesus lived. I tend to trust those that came immediately after Him more than teachers of today, who do not seem to be able to agree on a lot.
I'd also like to say that Christianity began to change after Constantine declared it the religion of Rome. Too many changes have been made down through the years.
Perhaps if the original Apostles and writers of the New Testament knew that someone like John Calvin would be born one day, they WOULD have written everything very clearly.
It was clear for those times, but not for our times.
And so we have many interpretations.
The RCC has only one interpretation. But do you believe every priest believes the same doctrines??
Douglas Summers
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Classifying the many groups within Hinduism is a challenge, and not so easy (as, perhaps, with other religions.) In so doing, we may inadvertently promote the idea that Hinduism is a single monolithic religion. It is, more accurately, a family of religions, with each family member autonomous but sharing distinctive family features.
Luther was a priest and imho God who inspired the NT knew both the past and the future - the prophets were mainly and primarily for their own time - Christ mainly and primarily for His own time - the Apostles mainly and primarily for their own time and the Church mainly and primarily for our time - the actual problem is imho that 99% of Christians get Christianity a bad name and do not like the rest simply simply believe that Jesus is the very son of God, our saviour who takes away the sins of the world and that we have life believing in His name[Jn.20:31] - twinc
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God knew the past, present and future. But did he decide things would be the way they are? It sounds like this is what you're saying. God let's us be free to do what we want to do. Are you saying He WANTED Luther to split up the church?
Are you saying that the church is for our time and not the Apostles writings, for example?
You wrote "church" with a small C. §That would be the institution of the church. I believe Jesus is for all time.
Nothing has changed. There are many churches, they do not all agree. So which one teaches the truth in your opinion?
The reason Christians give Christianity a "bad name" is because Christianity is not a book and rules religion. It's the religion of a person. That person is Jesus, a divine person, the son of God.
We have commandments and rules and yet many of us argue that these are works and are not meant for us.
So, how do we get around that when this is what many churches teach?
Maybe the ego has a lot to do with schisms. There seems to be a schism taking place in a big denomination. It's interesting for me to see how it will all end up. The differences there always existed, but they have come to the brim and are spilling over. I speak about the RCC. It's not so united as it used to be.
Maybe it's time Jesus came back?
Yes. This is true. There are also different factions of Islam.
But within each "family" the same beliefs are upheld.
There are too many protestant denominations to say that it's the same.
churches split not only for big ideas, but also for little ones.
I believe it was Papa Zoom who said that we should not argue every little nuance. Some are just not worth it.
I agree. Maybe our egos get in the way and those that can just start their own church.
Sorry. I'm just thinking out loud.
Many don't believe the symbolic writings are symbolic.
Communion, for example.
We can't deny historical facts (and even some of those are not 100% certain as they are reported), but we seem to be very good at debating everything else.
Sometimes something is so clear to me that it makes me wonder how another Christian cannot understand it as I do.