With all these Christian denominations, how can anyone be sure their interpretation of the Bible is the right one? Sure you could say faith reveals the truth, but every Christian has faith yet not the same interpretation. People are too different for singular truth to exist.
2006-10-01 14:26:55 · 8 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why was the Bible written according to this following verse? "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life..." (I John 5:13). God wants you to know that you have eternal life! John 5:39 says: "Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me."
Do not trust in Clergymen to do your searching and interpreting of the Scriptures! What if they are wrong? IT IS YOUR SOUL! Jesus said search yourself!
Proper interpretation is not for a few Clergymen! BOLOGNA! The Apostle Paul, while in Rome, reminded a young man named Timothy, "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus," (2 Timothy 3:15). Timothy knew the Holy Scriptures from his childhood. He was taught them, not by Clergymen, but by his grandmother and mother (see 2 Timothy 1:5).
God wrote the Bible so every person on earth could read it and find out what He requires for us to have eternal life. We can know for sure that we are going to Heaven! It is mental torment to have to go through life wondering if we are going to make it to Heaven or if we will end up in hell. A God of love would not want us to be mentally tormented and live in fear and uncertainty all of our days as hostages to some unknown demands of His. HIS DEMANDS ARE KNOWN. If you will do what God says you must do to go to Heaven, you will be saved and KNOW IT!
2006-10-01 14:32:18 · answer #1 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bible itself, the fact there are so many different Christian ideas reveals 'divisions' and that division itself is a result of 'error'.
The Bible 2 Rule
The Bible Puzzle-Paradigm
You can read these and others for free at authonomy.com
2014-06-23 13:14:10 · answer #2 · answered by Duck 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I read a repair manual on electric wiring,an mis-interpret what it says and shock the hell out of myself.It's not the manual that was wrong,but me.
(Take the Bible for what it says,especially the New Testament .)
If I then go around teaching that wiring manual the way I interpreted it ,the manual's still right and I'm the knucklehead.
There's alot of knuckleheads who ask Qs on here that presume and assume alot(not you by the way)without even doing a little study.
2006-10-01 21:34:54 · answer #3 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are basic truths in the Bible that all Christians agree on. The Book itself is as deep as the ocean and people swim at their own depths, so you have many different experiences with it.
2006-10-01 21:31:52 · answer #4 · answered by Namaste 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your right everybodies view of the truth from the bible is different. that can only mean that the truth varies from person to person. there is no singular truth in the world of religion
2006-10-01 21:31:01 · answer #5 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can't be considered singular truth. What amuses me is that I've heard a few historians say that if Jesus did actually exist, he was a dark skined Jew. Wonder what full hearted Christians say to that...
2006-10-01 21:30:25 · answer #6 · answered by kittycat_cc14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That wasn't the way it was supposed to be. Jesus left the Apostles in charge, and in turn they chose people to succeed them, to govern and teach the Church as they died off. That way there was to be ONE teaching, ONE understanding, because all the Apostles were united in their beliefs, and all their successors were to be tested to insure THEY did not introduce new and private beliefs into what they had received from the Apostles, who received it from Jesus Himself. Of course over the centuries, people couldn't help disagreeing and they began breaking off into sects to teach their own doctrines, in contrast to the Church's. We see that in the heresies of Arius, Sabellius, Donatus, Marcion, Pelagius and many others, right up to the Protestant era.
2006-10-01 22:27:20 · answer #7 · answered by a_catholic_monk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bingo!
2006-10-01 21:33:28 · answer #8 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋