The Bible: All words created equal, or some words more equal than others?

Question

Should some parts, such as the red words of Jesus, be considered more important than others?

Answer 1

Oh, Animal farm!

They seem to think so, many of them go to war and kill, yet they want to outlaw same-sex marriage. They obviously take some parts more seriously...

Answer 2

CONTEXT!

In many cases, the words of Christ are LESS significant TO US because there were NO CHRISTIANS during Jesus' lifetime. Jesus' ministry was spent TEACHING JEWS. Christians today do not (or should not) put their faith in their ancestry AS MANY OF JESUS' OPPONENTS DID, but in Jesus. Jesus lived and taught a pattern, but we live under a different system than he did.

Since we do not live under the law, those passages are LESS SIGNIFICANT in our lives than they were to people in that time. Women covering their heads when leading prayer or prophesying (1 Corinthians 11) is almost universally considered to be an element of that time and place, but order in the assembly (the TRUE topic of that instruction) is proper for all Christians and all times. All scripture is not created equal.

Law... Ephesians 2:15 Through his body on the cross, Christ put an end to the law with all its commands and rules. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.

Colossians 2:14 He wiped out the written Law with its rules. The Law was against us. It opposed us. He took it away and nailed it to the cross.

Galatians 2:16 ...No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.

Galatians 2:21 ...What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!

Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace... The ONLY verse that talks about falling from grace, and they did it by trying to follow the law!

Jesus said he didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. (Matt 5:17) The effect was the same. Once fulfilled it was no longer in effect. The very next verse, Matthew 5:18, looks forward to the time when the law would be set aside. "...Not even the smallest stroke of a pen will disappear from the Law UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED."

On the cross, Jesus' last recorded saying, "It is finished," is an important milestone. Because of Jesus life, Satan had been defeated. The law was finished and would no longer stand between God and mankind.

The 10 commandments along with the rest of the law ("commands and rules" from Ephesians 2:15) were "set aside" when they were fulfilled or completed at Jesus' resurrection. We are no longer bound by that law.

Answer 3

Having four wheels is great but if you need a whole car, you're missing some of the main components.

Nothing is as good when you "refine" it. If you do it to wheat, all the goodness is gone.

How do you decide which words are red words? Do you pick the ones which suit you and throw away the rest? Convenience Christianity?

Eat the wholemeal bread - read all the words and think really hard about what they really mean.

Answer 4

You pretty much have to decide that some parts of the bible are more important than others, because it contradicts itself throughout.

But most people will gloss over page after page of contradiction without noticing anything wrong. Even if they do, there's generally some facile excuse for it, e.g. if something in the "Old Testament" gets under their skin, they simply claim that it no longer holds because of the "Good News" of the "New Testament."

Answer 5

All parts are the bible is important's
Jesus said he did not come to change the laws
of the bible but for other to learn about the Creator

Answer 6

The Bible is a book that has been passed down through the years, been through many revisions and many languages. I don't put much stock in anything that tome says.

Not to say that some of that stuff didn't happen. How can I say? I wasn't there. But I have to wonder, how much of it is true and how much of it is fiction...

Answer 7

The Bible was written by many different men. These men wrote of what they saw and heard.
If four different men, one on each corner of the same intersection, saw the same accident occur, each man would have a different version to tell the police on investigation.
If you read the Bible, you can believe what you read or not, and use your own interpretation of what you have read.

Answer 8

Words by themselves or by the use of man are not of equal value. There are Mother Word, Creative Word and ordinary word. Words used by poets, writers, philosophers... are also of different value to those used by uneducated people.
Your eyes and your nails are parts of your body, but they are not of the same value.
All men need to go through education to understand and to use words for their best interests.

Answer 9

I do not believe that the words written in the Bible, are Jesus's words, in first place.

Answer 10

If you are a follower of CHRIST it would follow suit that his words were most important. It would seem that Paul's words tend to hold more credence with modern Christianity though.