Why does everyone get something different from the bible?

Answer 1

A good portion of it is due to the many different translations of the Bible. Each version varies slightly, but a small change in words can make a big difference in meaning.
Some sects believe that everything in the Bible is to be taken literally, and others, not so much.
Really, though-when you read anything-Shakespeare, Orwell, or another reknown writer-each story means something different to each reader. Some people interpret the stories slightly different than others. No two will interpret it exactly the same.

Answer 2

The Bible is a “closed” book, so to speak. While most everyone, except the most closed minded, who read it do “get” something out of it, just as in almost any book, in any genre. Yahoshua said “the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.” Thus to truly understand the Bible you must be given, as the Apostle Paul stated, a “spirit of revelation and understanding” to unlock the spiritual meaning; otherwise what you get will be either false or dull, dry words in which you can make to mean whatever will; most likely something in accordance to your own church’s belief or that to which your doctrinal disposition leads you to believe, or worse what Satan would have you believe. That the Bible is ‘inspired’ is claimed by most evangelicals, but what is lacking is the knowledge that ‘revelation’ from the Holy Spirit is required to gain anything from the Bible other than doctrine, theory, promises, threats, comforting words and in the end confusion, error and hopelessness.

Answer 3

It all depends because there are two basic answers to your question. One of them has to do with the Greek word Rhema which means "word". The Holy Spirit can give someone a special insight into a passage that is applicable to them at that point in their life although that may not be the actual main interpretation of the passage.

On the other hand, people often have a tendency to "read into" Scripture. They come to the Bible with a preset mind condition about what it "should" say about a certain subject and then they impose that meaning on the text instead of receiving the meaning with a humble expectation of receiving divine revelation.

Answer 4

Because we are different people asking different questions of the same book. This doesn't mean, as some have falsely assumed, that there is no objective truth in the Bible. There is plenty of agreement over biblical matters, but the differences are often emphasized by those who wish to undermine the Bible's common appeal.

Answer 5

Some people do not read all the sentences before and after a verse so they take the message out of context. They only have part of the meaning. You have to know the whole story before you get the true meaning of the writings. Also some people do not have open minds they have a firm opinion before they even read the first page of the bible.....instead of letting the holy spirit speak to them from the holy words they already have their mind set.

Answer 6

Well, Thats the way it supposed to be. Thats how god "talks" to people, everyone gets mad at other people for saying they got one thing from the bible, But your supposed to get something different from it. It's the way it was written. So you'd understand something different than i would. If i read the passage about noah, and you did. You may think that it means that the ENTIRE world was flooded. Whereas i would get that the world as far as they knew it was flooded.

Answer 7

Thats the thing about the bible, read by urself boring history book, read with the Holy Spirit, an spiritual enlightening journey that knows the end until you die.
You can never climax with the word of God every day you read a passage it reveals something new to you.

Answer 8

The reason is because the bible talks about so many different topics you can take any phrase out of context.

There is also the fact that it is written poetically, which means you can twist the vague wording to mean what they want, especially after millennia of translations and oral tradition.

Answer 9

If you were a witness to an accident that involved two people, there would be three different sides to the story, yours and the two people involved. Well. the bible is the same. Whoever reads it, perceives it differently.

Answer 10

Because you are unique. The message of the bible is the same for all who read it, but you are the sum of your experiences. What you need to make you into a better person for God may not be what I need, though there may be some similarity.