society as long as the original intent is preserved? I meant can it be reinterpreted to the extent of preserving the intention for the sake of 'living a good life and using your brain'?
2007-01-07 15:48:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's not reinterpreting, that's reinventing. The bible can't be interpreted in that way.
You can believe in anything you want, but if you believe its all about "living a good life and using your brain," you don't believe in the bible. With respect, let's just be honest about it.
2007-01-07 15:52:59 · answer #1 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you talkin about, Willis?
The original bible texts are so different than what Bubba Preachers tell us, Moses and Jesus wouldn't believe they had returned to the Same Planet.
Example: The original Hebrew text "In the beginning" was something like "the first great leader of our tribe" well in the beginning was the beginning of the Jewish bloodline. Not the beginning of the Universe, or the even the beginning of the Earth.
Proof: All the names in the Bible are Jewish. It is a history of the Jews. (Do the math) the Bible is saying that the Jewish bloodline is 6,000 years old. Not that the world is 6,000 years old.
six stages not six 24 hour days.
As our knowledge increases we can still squeeze in the validity of the original text, cause the original text is a history of the Jews from Adam to Jesus.
Only Bubba preachers interpret that the Bible is about the whole world.
other examples:
Flood: Noah's world --- not the whole world
God created the Heavens and Earth -- Heavens in the original language meant "where birds fly" - God cleaned the atmosphere, The Bible is not referring to God creating the Universe.
on and on.
2007-01-08 00:10:02 · answer #2 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Words of the Bible can be reinterpreted to be compatible with just about anything. That's how thousands of conflicting and outright contradictory manmade denominations can all claim to take their beliefs directly from the Bible. And in fact, they do, subject to their own personal interpretation. We know of course that many if not most such interpretations are erroneous, because they conflict with one another, and truth cannot conflict with truth. That is why Jesus gave us one authoritative, inerrant, infallible interpreter of His Word, the One Church He personally founded for all mankind, the Church with no denominational fragmentation, the Church with 2,000 years of constant unified teaching and biblical interpretation, the Church which alone compiled the Bible in the first place, of its own early writings, the Holy Catholic Church.
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2007-01-08 00:05:53 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I understand what you are asking, that would be a slippery slope. Which is why the early church and subsequent leaders have not done this. Although there are modern day translations of the text (NIV) New International Version, Living Bible, etc.
2007-01-07 23:54:57 · answer #4 · answered by LadyB!™ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that at some point, they will have no choice but to do this. As science and logical knowledge advance, literal belief in myths like those in the Bible appears more and more ridiculous to even the most devout among us.
2007-01-07 23:57:15 · answer #5 · answered by Huddy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is going to change the intent of the bible if he can. It's his nature. The bible has a guard against this within its pages.
2007-01-07 23:51:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely: Gen. 1 = This came from a primitive mixture of science and religion in Ur as found in the Gilgamesh Epic: Message - God (religion) has created a good world (we don't have to propitiate mother earth w/ fertility prostitution), but can learn and prosper (science).
Jeremiah - God can use the "bad guys" to chastise the "good guys" who refuse to get their act together. cf. Assyria vs. Jerusalem. etc.
Good quesiton.
2007-01-07 23:54:54 · answer #7 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋