if the bible says dont add or take from it how can people make their own interpretation of the bible...?

Question

that could be wrong cause knowing and thinking are two diffrent things.

Dont you think enternity is to long to be wrong?

Answer 1

Everything you read you also interpret. It means something different to me than it does to you. A book as large and complex as the bible, translated from different languages at different times, containing different books by different authors, will never mean exactly the same thing to two people.
If you're looking for right and wrong, then you need to look into yourself and decide what you think is right and wrong.

Answer 2

Alright, let's use a little common sense here. When the Bible in Revelation 22: 18-19 speaks about "adding" or "removing" words from the text...THAT is exactly what the Bible says...not to add or remove any "wording" from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek WORDS...which has nothing at all to do with the "translation" OF those original documents and their faithful copies down through the ages of the New Testament Church. And concerning interpretation, the Bible is itself its' own "interpreter".

Answer 3

In school studies we are taught to summarize the story, or give a brief.

Genesis gives a breif, then a more detailed account of the same, it confusses most people.
Revelations does the same, it gives a brief, then detailed account, Few get it at all.
Daniel works close to the same order. Same author, different writers.

Most likely any summarized version will not mean any more to any one than the knowledge they have of the bible, or of religion after they see it than before.

My summarized version of any thing is no more than memory notes and does not add to or take away from the main source. I am aware of the add to or tale away and that is why I do not see.

1.Rapture.

2.Trinity.

Answer 4

If you open you heart, eyes, mind - when you open the bible the words you need at the time (taken out of context) will speak to you!
You or some one else may read the same passage but get a different meaning!
Just like reading a self help book you only get out of it what you need!
Then later you could read the book again - or even watch a movie and get something more from it!
P.S. The way I read my bible is just open it to where ever and read - I read as long as I feel I need to then just stop!
The answer may not come to me right then, but it comes sooner than later!

Answer 5

Too many people out there that don't want the bible as it is but say that we shouldn't take it literally. Some people say that people must Think for ourselves instead of being a quoter or a bible thumper! Yes, I believe that eternity is too long to be wrong!

Praise Him!
Shalom

Answer 6

When you speak of interpretation, you say it as if people are paraphrasing the Bible to say what they 'think' it should say, not what it actually IS saying.
The Bible is clear and definitive and consequently, it reconfirms it's message consistently through many people, over thousands of years and by several cultures.
If you read it in the context it was given, its helps in understanding what it is saying.

Answer 7

You have misinterpretted what it says... thinking and interpreting what the bible says to make it appilcable to you is perfectly ok. Doing something like the mormons did, making another book and calling it the new revelation and gospel of god is what the bible said is forbidden.

That being said, now you know who a giant group of sinners are... silly mormons.

Answer 8

People think and argue about it all the time. We have many interpretations and denominations of Christianity based on waht people think like Anglican, Catholic, Protestant, Lutheran, Methodist, Greek and Russian Orthodox, Presbyterian, United, Episcopalian, Trappiste and more!

Answer 9

Jesus gave the (catholic) church the authority to interpret scripture..yet when people learned to read and interpret themselves...voila!! 30,000 christian denominations
“But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation.” 2 Peter 1:20

Answer 10

because Christians have a tradition of interpreting the bible to suit their needs at the time. After all its just a silly fairytale that the feeble minded cling to because they are scared of the universe.