Why do people who don't know the Bible???

Question

try to teach other people about what it has to say?
You wouldn't teach history without studying that...so, why do people think that they can do it with the Bible?

Answer 1

It's the nature of man to assume he knows what God would say, IMHO. Most people, even many Christians, have their own mind made up about the nature of God though their knowledge of the Bible is inexistent to miniscule.

Honestly, most of us spend decades listening to the Sunday morning sermons and never reading the Bible for ourselves. It's sad. God says he gave the bible to us, breathed of the Spirit and infallible, but we don't read it for ourselves. By the bible we can learn so much about God it's amazing.

Answer 2

You can read the bible over and over again and still not understand it. Everyone from the KKK to Homosexuals have used the bible to justify their way of thinking. So one must ask - who does really know the bible? That seems like a matter of opinion. There are so many contradictions in the Bible it is hard to keep up with - Here is one for instance - Acts 10:39 and Rev 11:8 - says that Jesus was hung from a tree in Egypt. I thought he was hung from a cross? Here is another one - Gen 6:19 says that Noah took 2 of every animal. Then in Gen 7:2 it says he took 7 or 9 of every animal. Well, what is it? So I ask again - Who does really know the bible. I think there are people that just say they do and if they say something you agree with we jump on the bandwagon without any more questions.

Answer 3

You make a good point. One shouldn't pretend to be an expert on a book one has only skimmed, or when one's knowledge is based only on what others have said about it. That's like claiming to know everything there is to know about a book after hearing other people's book reports about it.

Unlike fundamentalist Christians, who seem to believe they are recipients of a supernatural gift for understanding the Bible's content without error, the Jews (whose scriptures make up the bulk of the Christian Bible) admit that the Bible is difficult to comprehend. They don't simply say it takes blind faith to understand its teachings and mitzvot--it takes years of careful and thoughtful study. Thus was born the Talmud, a collection of writings much larger than the Bible itself. In it, Jewish biblical scholars debate what the Bible is trying to teach. Their interpretations sometimes widely differ. In fact, they rarely agree--and this happens on every page of the Talmud. If learned rabbis living closer to the times when those books were written cannot agree on a single interpretation, then perhaps the Bible isn't as cut and dry or plain as day as some people think.

Answer 4

Lot of people read the Bible but don't understand it one caes is written in the Bible and it's at Acts 8:27-31 it reads "look! an Ethiopian eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, and who was over all her treasure. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,  but he was returning and was sitting in his chariot and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah. So the spirit said to Philip: “Approach and join yourself to this chariot.”  Philip ran alongside and heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet, and he said: “Do you actually know what you are reading?”  He said: “Really, how could I ever do so, unless someone guided me?” And he entreated Philip to get on and sit down with him.... So you see people need help to understand the Bible. When someone tell you that it's from the Bible then you have the right to ask them to show you where it is written and have them back it up with other scriptures.

Answer 5

If a person who has not read the Brothers Grimm fairy tales were asked to comment on the validity of those stories, I don't think you would argue that they could be fairly accurate about their judgment. Entertaining but not reality.

Why do you think it is any different with another book of fantasy?

But regardless, it is virtually impossible to grow up in our society and not be exposed to the imagery and symbolism of the Bible. Just as it would be impossible to grow up in Iraq and not be exposed to the metaphors of the Koran. So people probably have a better understanding of the Bible than you give them credit for. Just because they might not be able to cite book and verse doesn't mean their knowledge is lacking.

Also you need to fact the idea that you might have memorized many selected verses and ignored those lines in the Bible that weaken the dogma that you have been taught. A lot of energy is spent in isolating you from people who have very different ideas about the Bible. You might recognize that any verse can be interpreted many different ways. Looking for the answers for everything in one book is absurd. Not only does it kill the imagination it also fills us with silly ideas.

Answer 6

I truly don't know. As for Jehovah's Witnesses, they study the Bible and never stop learning. Some people suppose that they go house to house to make converts, the funny thing is, if they knocked on your door today and you said "I want to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses, where can I go to get baptised?" they would inform you that you cannot do that without extensive study and acceptance of Bible teachings. This generally takes no less than a year and often times many years. Please don't lump Witnesses in with the uneducated, it's just not true.

Answer 7

Do you know the "Bible"? If you knew the "Bible", you would know that it isn't called the "Bible" but rather its called Scripture rather than "Bible". However, the fault isn't that big because most people were taught to use "bible" and it illustrates my point. Although most people don't know what scripture actually says, they still try to spread the word of God to others and to some extent, some get it somewhat correct while others just mislead people. Whatever the case, its our responsibility to doubt and to continue to discover by ourselves the word of god, and not rely on just your cleric, pastor, minister, cardinal, priest, etc... to tell you what is right, wrong, etc because they can be wrong too.

Answer 8

Is that judgement!

Most Orthodox religions don't allow a woman to teach the Bible at all. It's a man's job. "Women to be silent in the Church."

One Priest I know left one religion because they were ordaining women Priests. His is firm in his belief that women are NOT to be Church leaders.

So where does that leave you, considering Orthodox Christianity is the dominant factor in the world with over 1 Billion declared Orthodox.

Answer 9

Most Christians are Biblically ignorant. Non Christians know even less. But, it seems that everyone is a Bible expert, especially those who know nothing. Just look at the questions they ask, and the answers they give.

Answer 10

what makes you think you know the bible any better than them? I was raised catholic, I know the bible very well. I just grew up one day and decided to start thinking for myself. I don't feel the need to belong, I'm confident in my own decisions and do not need to hide from reality by letting a book make all my decisions for me. Even some christians can't agree on the bible. It's all in how you interpret it.