Do you ever wonder why the Holy Spirit guides people to infer different things from the same biblical text? You can find many people that no one would doubt had the light of the Holy Spirit, yet they interperate the bible differently.
Could it be that the bible is like a one-size-fits-all t-shirt that looks different on different people? Could it apply to different people differently?
2007-02-17 12:24:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not talking about things like murder, I'm talking about parables, applying verses to life, etc. I mean, if the Holy Spirit was guiding someone and it felt right. But they disagreed with another Christian on the meaning of a verse.
2007-02-17 12:31:26 · update #1
I think that is the way that it works.
Problem is some people like to think that their way of looking at it is the one true and only.
Sounds more like someones silly little dream of superiority, than anything else.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-17 12:30:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A certain Church Father said "In essentials, unity, in non-essentials, liberty, and in all things charity."
There are some things which are not left open to interpretation. Jesus said "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life, no man comes to the Father except by Me."
This is not negotiable.
There are other passages of lesser weight and subject to interpretation. The Bible takes this into account when it says God gave various ministry offices "to prepare God's people for works of service, until we all reach unity in the faith and in the full knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining the full measure of the perfection found in Christ." (Ephesians 4:11-13)
2007-02-17 12:37:44 · answer #2 · answered by William F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some interpretations can be completely wrong so we have to be careful that we do not read things into the Word that is not there- but personally in my own life, one time I can read a passage and get one thing out of it , and some other time something different. God uses scripture in our lives- it is active and living.
2007-02-17 13:57:51 · answer #3 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit interprets different scripture verse differently for all individuals, depending what the circumstance/issues are in their lives. Thats because we were all created as individuals.
2007-02-17 12:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by iamwhoiam 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I just stick with the verses that are very clear. For example, Exodus 22-18 "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." There is no need for interpretation here, just a simple command. Find'em, kill'em. You can't want anything less subject to interpretation than that. As for one size fits all, for some you might need a bigger rock. Praise the Lowered.
2007-02-17 12:30:01 · answer #5 · answered by valcus43 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What did the Holy Spirit told you that was different to another person?
2007-02-17 12:29:38 · answer #6 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible answers that adequately for me not to have to wonder about it. no it couldn't apply differently to different people other wise God would have inspired different Bibles for each differing view and and different sayings for different people, but he has not done this an instead the WEords in the Bible are the same to everybody and of all the different views that people choose to interprit foe their way of thinking are wrong because they cannot all be right especially when they disagree with each other! For instance: If a person tells you that the sky is blue and another person tells you that it is green would you then think that the are both right? and if you buy a new appliance wether it be a washing machine a dishwasher or even a stereo they all come with a manafacturer's user manual but there are some people who say to you that the manual is wrong and that you can do to the apliance to the way tipou think you should even if this is contrary to the manualif a number of people said that the manual is different to different people would you think that the manufacturer would fix your appliance if you did not handle the apliance the way the manufacturer said you should handle this appliance could you really blame the manufacturer if you had wrecked the appliance because of not following his instructions?would you think the same if you were the manufacturer and people were doing this to you and at your expense?Or would you in this case nbelieve thatit could apply todifferent people in different ways?No I don't think so in this case how could you possibly then expect that it would be different in the Manual that God prepared for us for our benefit that it would work even by different and unfounded applications of it to be right, this is truly impossible, and unthinkable to God! He has written instructions in the Bible that work for our benefitthat work to our best interest the way that we can attain such a life that would be happy and trouble free for us, but if we choose to ignore these and go the opposite way to these instructions yet would it then be fair on our part to blame God for our problems when we are the ones who created these problems by not following our manafacturer's instructions?By no means, the word of God cannot app;y to different people differently and does not apply like a t-shirt looking different on different people unlike the t-shirt that does look different on different people and although people look different from one another we have the same needs in our life we all need to eat food to sustain our life we allhave to breathe air to keep living we all need love in our lives, we all need water to liveand we all have a spiritual need even though we do nopt all feel the need so our interpretation may not be good for us, it is the manufacturer who knows what we need that is important for us to be guided by it to achieve for the needs that we have to be fulfilled! but you asked why the different views from different people on the same texts that is answered in (2corinthians4:4) which says that the god of this system of things (Satan) ( not the true God )has blinded their minds, why would he do this? the scripture continuesin answer to this:so that the illumination of the glorious good news might not shine through. Satan is causing the confusion because he does not want the true worship to go to God he wants the worship that rightly belongs to God for himself he even tried to tempt Jesus to give him one act of worship(Matthew4:8,9) it is by False religion that Satan is getting this worship that he desires,you might even think of this as unfair, and you would be right, since Satan does not play fair he doesn't care if he has caused death for mankind or slandered God so that people will think that God is unfair by confusing the truth of the Bible to them, so that they will be confused into worshiping him instead of God.
that is why satan is called the god of this system of things(2Corinthians4:4)
2007-02-17 13:50:25 · answer #7 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit is the official, constant advocate and arbiter of divine truth, of the only chuch that Jesus ever founded.
And there is only one truth.
Those who choose to remain separated from, or choose to oppose God's own church, shouldn't be surprised when he permits them to take their own fallible human intellect for divine inspiration.
2007-02-17 15:24:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you could say that one size fits all.
By that I mean that the Holy Spirit has chosen me for one thing, and He has chosen another for another thing.
What He tells me is what I need to know for my thing, and what He tells someone else is what they need to know for their thing.
If an employer chose you for one job and another person for another job, do you think he would tell both of you the same thing?
grace2u
2007-02-17 12:41:54 · answer #9 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible has very clear rules,
such as "I am the way of the truth and the life, noone comes to the father but through Me."
2007-02-17 12:28:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋