Why do people blindly follow church doctrine instead of reading the bible for themselves?

Question

A good example of this is never in the bible is a man restricted to one wife. The ten commandments is also translated incorrectly. Adultery is defined as sleeping with another mans wife according to God. Men see it as something different. Murder is forbidden in the ten commandments, killing is not, but it is translated many times as ' thou shalt not kill'. Where in the bible does it ever say anything about a pope being god's representative on earth? The bible makes sense, it is of god, churches and religon do not, they are of men.

Answer 1

The only church I have ever went to and still do is Church of God Seventh day ( We are not seventh day avengists) it is the most bible based church every doctrine they teach is found in the bible. Like for example we worship on Saturday which is the seventh day. It says in the ten commandments to keep the Sabbath day Holy for six days you work and the sabbath day you take off. anybody can look at a calender and see that saturday is the seventh day. and many churchs have changed that. Another is Holidays most people keep man made Pagan holidays instead of the ones God told us to keep. I think people just follow church doctrine instead of the bible because they want to fit in

Answer 2

Why do people believe the bible is the direct word of God when the people who originally said that were just men themselves? All holy books were written by men, you chose to believe it was written by God, but the truth is that men wrote it and then the priests of that time said the men who wrote those books were inspired by God, so its all up for interpretation. Actually, the Bible is a collection of writings from about forty contributors, thirty in the Old Testament and ten in the New Testament. For example, the Psalms are a collection of the works of several authors, of whom David, the "sweet singer of Israel", is the best known. But psalms were also written by Moses, by Asaph, by a man named Ethan, and by the sons of Korah. Everything said in the bible was said before, it was simply re-interpreted for the people of that time, within that specific religion, every religious group has a holy doctrine, the bible isn't the only book that is supposedly the word of the Lord, Buddists and Hindus were writting about all that stuff before the bible ever existed. There was a time, thousands of years ago, when a bunch of men, like an ancient board of directors, sat around and decided which books would go into the bible and which books wouldn't they literally just tossed some aside because they didn't like them- what were their qualifiers? No one knows. Did they believe the world was flat? Yes. Did they think the earth was the center of the universe? Yes, they even imprisoned those who said otherwise. Who were these men that decided for everyone else what we would believe? Who ever they were, they then told everyone that all these books were written by men and "inspired" by God. Why believe them? Everyone just believes and never questions. The bible says a lot of great things, it also says a lot of nonesense, like an eye for an eye, but if someone kills your slave you can get money from that person instead of another life, because, well, its just a slave! Most people know right from wrong and shouldn't need to read the bible to be good and decent.

Answer 3

yeah thats truly correct one has to read the bible and follow the doctrine written in it and anyone who dosent abide in HIS doctrine dosent have christ

"Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test
the spirits to see whether they are from God, because
many false prophets have gone out into the world" (1 John 4:1).

Though God has spoken very clearly, these false teachers turn people
away from God's word. Some try to stop the people from learning God's
word for themselves. Others pretend to teach it, but they "distort" or
twist its meaning (2 Peter 3:16). They
do this so that they can follow "what their itching ears want to hear"
(2 Timothy 4:3-4). (This reminds us of the importance of testing every
teaching by what the Bible actually says.)

Why would anyone teach things that are against God's word? Some may do
it selfishly - for money and power. Others may be holding onto the
respected "tradition" of their people. Whatever the reason may be, most do
not fully realize the harm they are doing. As Proverbs 21:2 says, "All
a man's ways seem right to him."

Satan can so blind us that we think we are right, when we are quite
wrong. Jesus warned His apostles of just how far Satan would go.

"A time is coming when anyone who kills you will think
he is offering a service to God" (John 16:2).

so to believe and practise what is written in the scriptures is right for every christian

Answer 4

Keep reading! Jesus fulfilled the old covenant when he died, was buried and rose again the third day. The "law" is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless. There is adultery and there is fornication. Fornication is sex when neither partner is married. And you are right, there is no pope in the Bible. The wall of partition was rent in two when Jesus died. Jesus is the mediator, we can go directly to God through Jesus, we do NOT need to go to the "priest". In 1 Corinthians it says that God put first in the church APOSTLES... yet most denominations don't believe there are any apostles alive today and don't believe they are relevant to the church today. That sounds like unsound doctrine to me and there are warnings against unsound doctrine in the Bible.

Answer 5

I completely agree. God (if you belive this way) gave us a brain in order to think for ourselves. No one seems to use it. Then there is the problem with numerous translations/ versions of the book. And still, everyone interprets it a little differently. I read it and saw that the definition for adultury included lusting over a woman other than your wife. That goes for single people too. (a little different than your version). Then there are parables to consider.
I believe that this book can be an excellent guide for life. It definately shouldn't be taken too literally. Many things in it were transcribed by people of an extremely corrupt church with an absolute agenda for control of the masses. This book can be really abused. gtg

Answer 6

The only question I can begin to answer is the murder one. I was taught as a child not to kill, but of course my Bibles say "Thou shalt not murder." As for the Pope, they take that from a verse about the rock, they say Peter (the first Pope) was the rock, not Christ. You're right. The Bible makes sense.

Answer 7

Zeal without knowledge is not good.
On some things you are correct, on others, you are not.
I strongly advise you to let the Bible define the words you use.
It is good that you are trying; that you are trying is evident. Don't give up, but be ready to listen also.
An expression I use is this, whether reading a book, hearing a sermon, or in conversation,

An open heart, but a discerning spirit.

I think you'll understand.

Answer 8

I agree that churches make no sense, but I disagree with you when you say that the bible does make sense. Did you read the same bible I did? I read the King James Version. It's full of holes and contradictions and it is just a horrible book.

PS: What's the difference between murder and killing?

Answer 9

Your right. This is were the troubles begin, and grow. When the lie becomes so large that it is hard to be retracted and the cancer from that lie continues to grow like the New World Order. It is spreading like a cancer threw society, and the Bible prophesy as such. Secret society of evil!

Answer 10

Catholics do not believe that God has given us His divine Revelation in Christ exclusively through Scripture. Catholics also believe that God's Revelation comes to us through the Apostolic Tradition and teaching authority of the Church.

What Church? Scripture reveals this Church to be the one Jesus Christ built upon the rock of Saint Peter (Matt. 16:18). By giving Peter the keys of authority (Matt. 16:19), Jesus appointed Peter as the chief steward over His earthly kingdom (cf. Isaiah. 22:19-22). Jesus also charged Peter to be the source of strength for the rest of the apostles (Luke 22:32) and the earthly shepherd of Jesus' flock (John 21:15-17). Jesus further gave Peter, and the apostles and elders in union with him, the power to bind and loose in heaven what they bound and loosed on earth. (Matt. 16:19; 18:18). This teaching authority did not die with Peter and the apostles, but was transferred to future bishops through the laying on of hands (e.g., Acts 1:20; 6:6; 13:3; 8:18; 9:17; 1 Tim. 4:14; 5:22; 2 Tim. 1:6).

By virtue of this divinely-appointed authority, the Catholic Church determined the canon of Scripture (what books belong in the Bible) at the end of the fourth century. We therefore believe in the Scriptures on the authority of the Catholic Church. After all, nothing in Scripture tells us what Scriptures are inspired, what books belong in the Bible, or that Scripture is the final authority on questions concerning the Christian faith. Instead, the Bible says that the Church, not the Scriptures, is the pinnacle and foundation of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15) and the final arbiter on questions of the Christian faith (Matt. 18:17). It is through the teaching authority and Apostolic Tradition (2 Thess. 2:15; 3:6; 1 Cor. 11:2) of this Church, who is guided by the Holy Spirit (John 14:16,26; 16:13), that we know of the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, and the manifold wisdom of God. (cf. Ephesians 3:10).