Posted on 06/03/2009 12:00:38 PM PDT by blue-duncan
I'll sum it up in 2 words..."Read It"
“THE Bible is a plain, honest, straightforward, simple Book. It is easy to read and easy to understand. It needs no learned introduction, no expert scholarship to enable us to grasp its meaning.”
Tell that to the Ethiopian eunuch.
Really? Then there should be no denominations, no religious wars within the church, no challenges, etc? The Bible may be all true, but man is flawed, very flawed and has a history of misinterpreting or twisting the Bible to suit his own purpose, all while declaring his translation was the 'true' one. A whole world opens up when you do dig into it with scholarship, with learning, studying the language, culture, and history, not just trusting what someone in sunday school said it means.
“Tell that to the Ethiopian eunuch.”
“The first necessity for the understanding of the Bible is the removal of all the embargoes which have been placed upon the operation of the Spirit of God in opening and illuminating the mind of the reader.”
Stopped reading after that little bit of claptrap.
As a child, I was taught the bible rigorously over six years of primary, Catholic education.
I never needed “learned interpretations” then, and I surely don’t need them now.
Of course, plenty of religo-crats, including many here on FR, will provide multi-page “translations” of the most simple ideas.
I had eight years of nuns and four years of Jesuits . The only bible I ever saw was on the altar in latin. Wow ! You must have lived in a special place.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
I agree with you. There is a lot to the Bible. You have to understand the generational gap between now and then. There are many things in the Bible that don’t literally apply today. There are lessons to be learned from everything but applying some of the things in a literal way today is not always the answer.
Six years of nuns. (1-6)
Four years of Basilians. (Prep School)
Every chapter of the Old and New Testaments and selected omitted texts, as well as specific lectures from Jewish scholars.
Really.
Shakespeare needs some ‘splaining, but not The Bible.
Some people make a good living making the simple word complicated.
Oft repeated too.
The people in Sunday School aren’t the ones starting the wars.
It’s the guys who have a dollar to make or power to grab may making simple lessons incomprehensible.
Those “professionals” absolutely hate it when the laymen start muscling in on their territory.
That’s such an easily confirmable lie. Shame.
Better get to confession.
Not enough, one must "Chew the Dud" and meditate upon it. Reading is good, but not substitute for engraving it on the mind through memorization, meditation and application.
ENJOY
You said — I never needed “learned interpretations” then, and I surely don’t need them now.
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Well, the thing about that, is that everyone has their “methodology”... It’s all there, with everyone — one way or another. Now, some may not know what that methodology is and simply take the word of the church that they’re hearing it from — but all churches do have a certain kind of methodology to use to “understand” the Bible.
It pays to know what that methodology is and know what the others are, and where they are coming from, and understand why you will use one certain methodology over another.
We drilled Baltimore Catechism #3 for 15 minutes each day.
“Baltimore Catechism #3” (first page) :
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. (Matt. 16: 18-19)
Hmmmmm.... Bible or not Bible?
Yeah, you’ve seen it, besides just on an altar in Latin....
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