it is dangerous to interpret the Bible alone, rigtht? so how can you honestly say that your interpretation of what's inside the Bible is the right interpretation?
2006-11-06 14:05:05 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ok. here's the typical evangelical response: humans make mistakes when interpreting scripture, but scripture is infallible. It's God's Word as God inspired the men of God to write it. It was led by the Holy Spirit and is therefore, not of human origin; it is divine revelation. ok, here are the problems: 1. humans presuppose their interpretation is correct and therefore, use their belief about the Bible's infallibility as an excuse to not consider they could be wrong. 2. that the Bible is God's Word is to say the book is God's Word, word for word instead of concept by concept. There's a huge difference between saying it IS the Word of God and saying the Word of God is IN it. 3. Both approaches believe in divine inspiration but when the Bible is the Word of God in its entirety, word by word, then literalism is the only correct interpretation and God may as well have dictated it. Where is the humanity of the human writers? That is an over-simplified approach that doesn't mesh with sound reason. I can see from your question that you already realize that.
2006-11-06 14:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is interpretation in and by groups that is dangerous. People who have personal agendas misinterpret scripture for their own purposes. I pray, listen and read scripture. Honestly I have never found anything of importance regarding my behavior that could be misinterpreted. It is all this unimportant stuff that gets twisted and rehashed in a group setting. People who are prominent intimidate and limit truth. A few different translations and a concordance and a coupla study Bibles and I can figure it out without worrying if I am gonna offend joe preacher who I find almost always has an area he misinterprets to keep people in his church and away from people in other churches, how wrong is that, is that in scripture
Be in one accord (basic indisputable doctrine),,, yet we have many denominations. Something wrong don't you think?? get a concordance look up the word accord
a lexicon, vines, an interlineare some history on culture, al these aere way more helpful than many pastors are. Some are good but if u no study how u no
2006-11-06 14:18:00 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason they believe what they believe is because it's the way they interpret the Bible. To prove them incorrect is to look at the scripture and their interpretation and try to interpret differently and use other part of the Bible to prove your point. I'm not a born-again I'm not sure what particular belief you are questioning.
Of course an argument won't make sense if you don't believe the Bible. Then you have to approach it differently.
But if you are just mocking as most do in here then there's no reason to make a logical argument just chant anything.
2006-11-06 14:14:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi china rose. Bible interpretation is one of the most important issues we should be clear about. It is the process where we derive Spiritual Truth from the Bible.
We know that each verse or passage can have three levels of meaning. The first is historical. The Bible gives us an accurate (literal) account of events (even down to actual conversations). The second level of meaning would be moral or Spiritual. When we apply God's commandments to an historical event, we are given an example of how His laws are applied (or should have been applied).
Third we are to look for the Gospel message there (Spiritualize). This is the most important message of the Bible. The whole Bible is the Gospel message of the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to see how a verse or a passage relates to the Gospel message itself.
Can we interpret the Bible alone? Yes. God tells us in 2 Timothy 3:16:
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in Righteousness."
But we must remember, as we interpret Scripture and come to a conclusion from what we are studying, it must be tested (comparing Scripture with Scripture) to see if it is in harmony with the rest of the Bible.
2006-11-06 15:01:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not how much we know that saves us.All we have to know is that we are saved by Christ.Born again Christian are still earthen vessels filled with the Spirit of God.It's not His fault we mess up, it's ours.Salvation comes upon us the second we are born again.But sanctification takes a life time.You could be born again right now,and please forgive me; but based on your question you probably know very little about the Bible.In Acts 4:13 it tells us that the Apostles ( John and Peter ), when being described by the High Priest and Elders ,that they were ignorant and unlearned,yet they could tell that they had been with Jesus.Please forgive us when we make mistakes, and fell free to bring the correct interpretation anytime, that way, we all can learn."Where no council is,the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety." Proverbs 11:14
2006-11-06 14:33:09 · answer #5 · answered by don_steele54 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many interpretations of some verses. I cannot honestly say that my interpretations are correct. When something is unclear, I do my best through prayer and study to make sense of the verse. If I fail to understand it, I have to "set it aside" in hopes that God will reveal the truth in the future. Many times the answer has come at a later time.
2006-11-06 14:12:54 · answer #6 · answered by paulsamuel33 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version
With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company
IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.
Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.
The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.
The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.
The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.
One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.
The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.
Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.
Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.
2006-11-08 08:56:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is why my faith is based equally upon Holy Scripture, Holy Tradition (especially the writings of the Church Fathers and the First Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church) and Holy Reason (guided by the Holy Spirit)...
To interpret Scripture outside of this realm would be pure folly.
The Holy Spirit indwells the Holy Church. Been that way since the first Pentecost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
2006-11-06 14:11:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, because all humans are fallible and don't know everything. In fact I don't even think the nonbeliever can say that he interpreted the Bible well without any mistake either. Yet many nonbelievers seem to act as if they know the Bible better by their constant regurgitation of alleged inconsistencies and contradictions in the Bible.
2006-11-06 14:09:19 · answer #9 · answered by Seraph 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Interpreting the bible is a life-long job... the bible encourages us to chew on the scripture and to digest it... to meditate on God's word day and night and seek understanding and guidance. You don't just go with the first thing that pops into your head but you seek to understand the whole of scripture by reading all of it as a cohesive whole and really delving into parts you don't understand until you learn and grow.
The really hard part is putting into practice what the bible teaches. To truly live a life that reflects the holiness of God - that is what Jesus called building your house upon the rock.
2006-11-06 14:09:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋