CAn we interpret the bible OUR way>?

Question

Is personal interpretation the reason there are SO many Christian denominations??...we must look at what the Bible says about the common person interpreting scripture...
..."you should know how to behave in the household of God,which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth." 1Tim. 3:15
"Know this first of all that there is no prophecy or scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation." 2 Peter 1:20
My point is that we have to look at the original church fathers [THE CATHOLIC CHURCH] who assembled the Bible and interpreted the Scripture for us. Wut do you think>?

Answer 1

I totally agree. The bible has to be interpreted in the context of the Church which it came from, namely the Catholic Church.

Answer 2

The trouble is that the RC church did NOT give us the Bible, you are in error. The RC church, makes its own rules and teaches a false gospel. The RC church teaches salvation by works, i.e. that you can only get to heaven by being a RC and doing good works, going to mass on a Sunday and holy days not having any mortal sins on your soul etc etc etc. THIS IS RULES THAT THEY HAVE MADE UP THEM SELVES AND ARE NOT TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE IN SCRIPTURE.
John 14:6 Tells us " I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME." So there we have, the RC church is preaching a gospel that is NOT scriptural. The Bible tells us one thing, and RC teaching quite a different thing.
The problem is that Rcs DONT generally read the Bible, and in fact the Bible is still on the list of banned books in many RC countries! Read What Paul had to say to the Galatians,
" O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth............."
In 1 Timothy we read, "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." That is NOT what the RC teaching is, they tell you to go to the priests and let them interpret, but they are false and preach a gospel that is not in the Scriptures.
I would advise reading the Bible and asking the Holy Spirit of God to help you interpret and keep away from the false teaching of Romanism. The Bible calls the Roman church "THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH." Rev 17:5
The Roman Catholic religion is a non thinking mans religion, are you unable to think for yourself? Ask questions, if the priest cant answer them find someone who can.

Answer 3

The KJV Bible 1611 translation had to be as was 303 years old in 1914 US and an excepted translation and was, from here many could interpret it.
It takes a long time reading the bible to get the meaning of it, instead of giving it a meaning[interpretation]; The assembled book is sure to be exceptable by God and Christ, it has all the facts in it that any human needs to meet all the requirements to
face God and Christ. The great commandment and the surroundings anyone sees is enough to know there was an attempt for good provisions. We just need some perfection, and that is what we are promised.

Answer 4

What you say is completely true. The reason why there are thousands (if not millions) of "churches" within protestantism is because there is no authority. Each "church" claims to be a "Bible-only" church, and yet each one invents its own doctrines and teachings. Each one interprets the Sacred Scriptures according to its own personal way of seeing such-and-such a verse, chapter or book of the Bible.

The Orthodox Churches, on the other hand, are less divided. However, even there, each individual Church is "independent". The Patriarch of Moscow, for example, has no authority whatsoever over the Greek Orthodox Church. This too comes back to the same fundamental problem: they do have "authority" (contrary to the protestant communities), but their authority is not "one".

The Catholic Church, on the other hand, has a very strong, centralized Authority. There is the same teaching, practice, faith in a Catholic Church in India as there is in a Catholic Church in Iceland. The Faith is one. Worship is one. The Sacraments are the same. The doctrines are the same. If there is a Truth, then surely that Truth is Universal, and not subject to local variation. This does not mean that everything is done EXACTLY the same way throughout the world. Each culture can, and should, bring what is positive in it to the Faith (or rather to the expression of the Faith) -- hence, local customs. And yet, while there are local customs and traditions (eg. the form of worship in a Catholic Church of the Roman Rite is not the same expression as in a Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite), there is nonetheless only one Tradition (capital T) through it all. It is Sacred Tradition, the Tradition given by Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Apostles, and through their successors the Bishops to us today. Sacred Tradition is the true Guardian of the Faith. It is also thanks to Sacred Tradition that we have the Sacred Scriptures today, and that we know which books of the Bible are divinely inspired.

Any "church", therefore, that rejects Sacred Apostolic Tradition is ultimately doomed to fragmentation and division. This is why the Catholic Church is One: She has the assistance of the Holy Spirit through Sacred Tradition and Apostolic Succession. This is why we are so blessed to be able to call ourselves Catholics. Not because we are better than others (we too are sinners!), but because we have received the fullness of Christ's Love by receiving the fullness of the Christian Faith. This being said, let us all, regardless of our "denomination", pray for one other, that we may all be one in Christ, as Our Lord Himself prayed.

Answer 5

Ok, who are the church fathers? The first century church, or the church created by a pagan emperor for political reasons in the 4th century? Paul often spoke about how false teachings and false teachers would come into the church and undermine healthful teachings. It was going on toward the end of the first century, and Paul said that he and the few remaining ones were holding it back, but once they were gone then the anti Christ (those apposed to true Christianity) (against Christ) would come in and destroy the church. By the 4th centaury Christianity had degraded into so many fighting factions that the emperor was fed up with the whole lot of so called Christians, and wanted one set of beliefs so this diverse group would stop making trouble for him. Basically Roman Catholicism is closer to Roman pagan beliefs then early Christian beliefs. In fact many of the beliefs held by Catholics were developed over 100s of years,

Some of the best writings on the pagan origins of the Roman Church are found in the Catholic Encyclopedia, I wish I knew where I could locate one.
One book "The two Babylon’s" get into a lot of history about pagan faiths in Roam, Greece, Egypt, and the Babylonian religions. All have very similar structure and pantheon of gods, much of which was adopted and infused into the Roman church.

The only way to really understand the Bible is to read it with an open mind, not filtered by religious dogma, based on a mixture of scripture and pagan i.e. Plutonian ideas.
Some pagan beliefs are:
Trinity, held by all early pagan religions in Egypt, Greece, India, Rome
Immortal soul, life after death, holy days, perpetual virginity of Mary, worship of Mary, praying through saints, the list go one and on. Here a? If Jesus is God, why did the resurrected Jesus say he was going away to his Father and his God? If Jesus has a God he warships, doesn’t that make him inferior to the Father? So keep an open mind, study the history of where religious ideas come from, remember the Devil can create 6000 false Christian faiths, and put out 1000s of half truths, but there is only one true God, and only one true faith, the hard part is are we willing to search for tat hidden treasure or are we content to wallow in mythology and superstition until the judgment comes, and were wiped away, wondering what we did wrong.

Answer 6

Don't look to the teaching of the Catholic Church for what the Bible says. There are countless errors in their teaching. An honest, causal reading of the Word of God would tell you that. The clergy in the Catholic church tried to Christianize the beliefs of pagan religions by substituting pagan terms with Christian terms so they could make their forced converts accept Christianity.

Only the Author of the Bible (that is, God) understands what His Word says.

So, if you want to know what the scriptures means then turn to God and ask Him in Jesus's name. Listen to what Jesus said to His disciples:

John 16:13 (KJV)

"Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come."

Note:The "Spirit of Truth" is the Holy Ghost.

John 14:26 (KJV):

"But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to rememberance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

The functions of the Holy Ghost is to guide you into all truth, teach you all things, bring to your rememberance all things that Jesus said, and to show you things to come. (There are other functions of the Holy Ghost besides these like convicting you of sin, that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior of the world, and etc.)

If all Christians would practice this then there would not be so many different interpretations to the Word of God and there would not be so many different denominations in the Christian community.

Don't believe the lie that the Pope, the Priest, the Sunday School teacher, or any other spiritual leader are the only ones who can understand the Word of God. Jesus' words to His disciples apply to all. Ask God the Father what the scriptures mean in Jesus' name and God the Father will answer you (John 16:23)

Answer 7

If you're looking to the Catholic Church for spiritual truth (assuming there is such a thing to begin with), you are going to be sorely disappointed. The Bible was a compilation of books voted in during Constantine's Councils of Nicea. The only thing that makes it "holy" is the fact that some politicians said so because they needed a means of controlling their population. Christianity itself is a hybridization of Judaism and Paganism.

Answer 8

I believe you need to look at the context from when these scriptures where written. What was happening then and what was it like? What does the whole of the Bible say on this subject? Consider checking Bible reference books and check more than one from different views and what their reasoning is. These people have studied the Bible much more and often have a lot more insight. Commentaries are good place to start.

Answer 9

"Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." Acts 17:11

I searched the scriptures and the teachings of the Catholic church are not true.

Answer 10

if you look into it there are a lot of differences between the original hebrew and greek and the modified english version 'supplied' by the catholic church. look at the reformation era, Martin Luther King (not Jr.) and why that entire time period happened. assumptions must be made since most people can't readily speak hebrew and greek, but to go so far and say to believe what people tell you, especially the catholic church, would be a serious error.

Answer 11

No matter what the church tells us, we will always get out own interpretation from the bible, if we bother reading it. And every time we read it, we come away with something different. The sad thing is that some people only reads the parts their pastor tells them to, not anything before or after specific verses, and they only get what the pastor wants them to get.