what is hilarious is these folks saying they bring a Bible to their little group meetings as if it signifies their upper-caste status when really they do not read it.
Check out any of their meetings, what happens is that their paster reads out random verses from the Bible. Everyone quickly shuffles from one verse to another, while the paster talks fast and shuffles again.
none of them have time to ponder or reflect and since the verses are completely random, the meaning can be twisted to anything the paster wants.
they may carry their bibles to their 'meetings' but they do not read it as much as shuffle it across. Their pasters spend more time preening and talking about themselves rather than reading the word of God.
Check out ANY of this groups pasters and you will see no long reading of even a chapter, but random, stray verses from here and there.
There is a difference between knowing and what these groups have, name rote-memorisation. You ask any of these cult-members to recite from the Bible and they can quote random excerpts but they do not recite chapters. They do not seek to understand but to rote-memorise specific texts.
you seem to be posting to me for some reason speaking utter nonsense
You are sadly mistaken about that Cronos...there are many of these that are quite in depth and beyond just interesting chit-chat to say the least. I have been to some where Pastors will travel hours just to hear, question and debate in these groups...I can say they are challenging and very insightful as most participate in the discussion...There is never a time you leave without learning more of Christ and for that loving Him all the more.
That is not to say there aren’t the chit-chatty ones as you have spoken of...but really no different then the catholic ones I’ve sat in on. They read a little, or “take turns” reading and then the leader might ask a few questions..but they can be pretty boring for one who is thirsting hard after God.
Even so ..people are at different levels of learning..so each to his own in that respect. But as you know the deeper one desires to go in the things of God,,,, the ranks tend to lessen along the way.
“Few there are”.....
Here’s a challenge for you Cronos...tell me what you know of the delimas Christ faced when he was being questioned. How did he handle them when either answer or action he might have given would have proved those who questioned him right in what they were saying about Him.
Now these were the religious teachers asking them...and I will assume you know some of those occassions when they were trying hard to back Jesus up against a wall.
Your colorful reply makes no sense whatsoever.
Bible studies in every group or church I’ve ever attended are always topical. Topics are not limited to specific books of the Bible, and are in fact addressed in numerous ways in numerous books. A proper understanding of the meaning of a particular passage will be reinforced and verified, even witnessed, by other passages. If you actually observed firsthand what you describe, please name the denomination so I can avoid it, it sounds deranged.
People, other than politicians, typically do not bring Bibles to Bible study for show, they bring them to use. If there’s any element of “caste” going on, it’s the quality of the Bible in their possessions, but even that can be misleading for those seeking to judge. An old, nearly threadbare but treasured family Bible can mean far more than the finest leatherbound and gold leafed edition, depending upon just who you’re talking about. This actuallly says more to me about your perception of people who read the Bible, than about the people themselves.
And, it’s “Pastor,” by the way.
none of them have time to ponder or reflect and since the verses are completely random, the meaning can be twisted to anything the paster wants.
Again, LOLOL...Obviously you've been fortunate enough to drop into a Protestant service once or twice...I can sympathize with you...
When a Pastor goes thru numerous scripture during a sermon, we're not following along in foreign territory...We read and know our bibles...We're very familiar with the verses...
I can see where someone like you would be completely lost...That's why we have Sunday schools...Even for adults...
A protestant knows the Bible like the postman knows the address of the people to whom he delivers mail, and a Catholic knows the Bible like one knows his neighbors, as friends and family. I take nothing they say to heart regarding the Bible, as one can read it from sun up to sundown and have no clue what it says. That is evident on these forums daily.