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Why are some of the people on here so pompous as to think the Bible does not mean what it says? I get the feeling that people seem to think that it means what they say. You can put a positive spin on anything, would you rather be called a garbage man or a sanitations engineer? If you put a ribbon on a crap it’s still crap.

Answer 1

Go to Any revival during the summer and hear the preacher give his individual interpretation of the true word. Each of us understands differently. That is why the Bible is so widely read and discussed.

Answer 2

Some people do exactly what you are saying

There are also many athiests that visit athiest websites that do pick and choose certain lines from the bible to distort and twist the meaning of the verse was supposed to mean.

Lets forget a moment that it is the Bible we are talking about and lets talk about any other book out there. if you were to disect and look for a particular line or if you wanted to prove a point about a book you could search for a few lines taken out of conext of the story .. then make a claim that the book was about this or that. it wouldnt be true but if you spread what you found about often enough you would eventually get enough people to believe in what you found. Even though its very far from the truth or the meaning of what the author put down. Therefore you would be trying to destroy the authors intent and hard work.

.. this is wrong to do and i know that myself and other christians have been trying to tell people that see this stuff and then regurgatate it in this forum what the passages really meant. when taken as a whole. not just bits here and there..

Answer 3

Please read what you just wrote. thanks :)

Why are some of the people on here so pompous as to think the Bible does not mean what it says? I get the feeling that people seem to think that it means what they say. You can put a positive spin on anything, would you rather be called a garbage man or a sanitations engineer? If you put a ribbon on a crap it’s still crap.

well???

Answer 4

From one Devil Dog to another! Ooohraah!

Anyways, The Bible is indeed to be taken literally. If you don't take it literally, then the Bible ends up meaning anything you want it to mean.

That doesn't, however, mean that the Bible doesn't use a variety of ways of communicating. There are clearly pictures, metaphors, similes, parables, and the case of Matthew 5:28-30, hyperbole. They are all valid communication devices and Jesus employs many of them in his teachings.

This means that you take the Bible literally, but understand those times when some other type of communication is clearly being employed. If Jesus had really meant that you were supposed to pluck out your eye, then you would have seen many examples of people doing this in the Bible.

I hope this helps some.

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Answer 5

When we pass on information to another (example: story, joke, description of something etc) by the time these details are passed on by word of mouth, interpreted by others, and then written down, the final details are typically quite different than the original information.

Since the Bible is just a man-made story passed down over many years in various forms, surely the chance of it being accurate in any shape or form is remote?

There are people who swear blind that the Loch Ness monster exists regardless of all the evidence to the contrary, but a fence post bobbing up and down in the Loch does the trick. Similarly there are people who swear blind that God exists and the Bible is fact, yet there isn’t one blind bit of evidence to support such theories.

Don’t you think that Biblical tales are really no different than Loch Ness monster tales, just the era is different?

Answer 6

I think that the Bible means exactly what it says.

However, I noticed that opponents of Christianity tend to take a sentence or two out of its literary and cultural context and put THEIR own spin on it in order to ridicule someone else's beliefs.

Now that's a load of crap.

Answer 7

I share the truth of what the bible has to say, but I have seen people use it out of context before and I am saddened when they do, cause it can be a real turn off.

BTW, the Bible was inspired by God and written by men, meaning that God told the men what to say, and they wrote it down.

Answer 8

Umm, all I got to say is that 'The Bible', may not necassarily be true in my eye's, I mean c'mon! But it has helped alot of people move over to a better person, or just to forget their worries and leave them in the bible's pages. On the other note, I may have respect for peoples choices...enough to still love them...but I do not believe in their choices, or in the bible.

Answer 9

Judaism, Christianity and Islam suffer from a serious problem with 'liberal' religious revisionists who pick and choose from the holy texts.

I'm all for fundamentalism. At least fundamentalists believe fully in the idiocy of the revealed religions, and accept them as the word of God. There is something to be said for internal consistency. They may be wrong, but at least they stick to their position.

Liberal theists, by contrast, are vacillating hypocrites.

Answer 10

Bible is not to be taken literally because it's full of scientifically proved inaccuracies.
It was written by men who did not yet understand the nature and the time.