I am just saying the Bible for example is so cryptic that people take many of its verses in many different ways. This is how we get people like that group that protests at funerals of soldiers. And the same goes for the Quran. An obvious perversion of it is why we have these militant extremists trying to kill everything.
It just seems to me that if any text was written by the big guy it would be so easily understandable and blatantly easy to see god's touch that it would not be deniable.
...just my opinion...
2006-11-11 03:49:56 · 8 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question.
My answer: You cannot separate the Scriptures from the Church, nor the Church (the Body of Christ) from the Holy Scriptures.
The Church existed before the Scriptures were made canon - so, the Church, indwelt with the Holy Spirit, in council, is the sole arbiter and interpreter of Holy Scripture...who do you think "canonized" the Scripture in the first place?? The Scriptures are the property of the Church, from the beginning.
If everyone goes off willy-nilly and translates "cryptic verses" (as you call them), all on their own, without looking to Apostolic teaching and Tradition, then, sure, absolutely... I tend to agree with you...there would be (and is) much confusion about the how's and why's of Holy Writ. No doubt about that.
This is exactly why I am an Anglican. While I love Scripture and read it daily, I'm not required to "check my brains" at the church door. My life is about studying this very point. And all of the answers are not limited to "Scripture Alone" ("Sola Scriptura") Such an idea was virtually unheard-of in the Early and Apostolic Age Church of Jesus Christ.
2006-11-11 04:14:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that all the ancient texts are largely trying to tell the same thing with geographical twists - tailor made for the culture of a particular area. I think that now that we are shrinking our world with travel and inter breeding of divergent cultures we are seeing 2 reactions: 1. people so indignant that you could have one word or idea different from them 2. people who are noticing the similarlities in many of the different messages.
I think people are learning this and seeing the similarlites as we speak and that the old, divisive way is scrabbling and struggling to remain in control. I think the more we question and think and discuss and try to find the unity, the closer we come to the actual word of god - which is likely to be a lot closer to the golden rule and the idea that if god is an ocean then we are all individual glasses of god and we can rise above the nonsense by being good and kind in this world. Oh yes, and when it is all over, go toward the light.
Peace!
2006-11-11 08:19:45 · answer #2 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that this would be true except for one big FACT. People do not think the same, they were not all raised the same, and they are not all on the same level. If we were all robots with the same program then that may be true but we are all on different levels and God meets us where we are. Also personally I think some are (for lack of a better word) a little crazy or tend to think crazy. As for me when I read the Bible the Spirit of God always shows me something different in the very same verse I've read before. God meets me where I am.
2006-11-11 03:59:45 · answer #3 · answered by Ms. Nita 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some verses are more cryptic than others.
But most verses are clear. They say that we are sinners
They say we need a savior.
They say that Jesus it that Savior.
Jesus said that "I am the way, the truth and the life, and no man can come to the Father except through Me"
If we reject Jesus and the salvation He offers us then we will not spent eternity in Heaven with Him but be sent to the lake of fire.
2006-11-11 04:19:35 · answer #4 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i think it would be written with as little emotion as possible, so that the readers wouldn't be able to just read it without thinking. at least, not a sincere reader. some people who couldn't care less about it just read its face value without questioning it. but a holy book shouldn't be just "light reading". because of the dryness they should have to use their heads and look deeper into the text in order to discover the message, and doing so would make the book come alive. a holy book shouldn't give you conclusions, it should inspire you to ask questions.
2006-11-11 04:14:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I gave your question and Barbara a thumb up each. That explains my opinion on this topic.
I recently posted an answer to the question "Do you realize how awesome the teachings in the Gospel of Jesus Christ are?" The link to the page is as follows. You might be able to help him out.
2006-11-11 04:23:25 · answer #6 · answered by fortuna0820 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think anything that came directly from a deity would be so simple and direct that it would only be able to be interpreted one way.
Very simply, the bible was written by humans who are never simple and direct.... therefore you get various understandings of what is written.
2006-11-11 04:00:09 · answer #7 · answered by genaddt 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the bible is hard to understand to a lost person. the word of god is ministered to a saved person by the holy spirit.
2006-11-11 03:59:48 · answer #8 · answered by Robert K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋