Christians, what is/was the hardest thing in the Bible for you to understand or accept?

Question

And why?

Answer 1

The hardest thing for me to understand and accept was the concept of speaking in tongues. I think this is the great dividing line among Christians. Until it happened to me personally, I thought it was the craziest thing ever. But this makes sense.... I believe that the devil does not want us to be blessed in this way, he does not want us to have a personal prayer language with God.... and it is easy for him to convince rational, thinking, and even faithful people that it is "gibberish" or just for religious zealots. I believed that for years, until I was 39, and it happened to me. The tongue is the most unruly organ of our body. So if we can surrender our tongue to God, then we have, at least for a time, fully submitted to God. I think that the devil would fight nothing harder than someone's full submission to God, so he poses quite a bit of opposition in this area. And that is why it is so hard even for Christians to accept. There are other things that were difficult for me to understand and accept, but through receiving the Holy Ghost, so much Truth has been revealed -- and of course, I'm still on that journey. But, I do know that the hardest thing for someone to do is submit themselves, because we are by nature just basically, no damn good. We are full of our own ego and think way too highly of ourselves...

Answer 2

The hardest part for me is that there is no historical proof that JC was ever alive. Also the borrowed stories from other religions ex. osiris myth. this is a little lengthy. Ra had two sons Osiris and Set. Set was jealous of his brother and so cut him into pieces and threw him into the nile. Isis (his wife) finds the pieces and puts them back together. Upon resurrection, osiris would father a child, Horous, and then return to the "world beyond". Horous would defeat set and become the second king of egypt. Finally, belief in the resurrection of osiris, living a moral life, and consuming the god's body and blood in a ritual meal confers hapiness in the world to come. sounds mildly familiar, no?

Answer 3

yes there are too many interpretations of Revelation. Plus I thought I sinned against the Holy Spirit. I cant understand why people that believe in a divine force and that love will go to hell like Buddha, Dhali Lama, Hindus?, Muslims, Native Americans, and the list goes on. WHY GOD WHY!!!

Answer 4

I am not sure that i understand or accept somethings in the bible. when there is something that i don't understand, i pray about it, if I do not get an answer, i set it aside, and think that i will ask Jesus about it when i meet Him, we do not have to know or accept every thing.
But when i do meet Jesus I will probably be so awe struck that I won't be able to say anything.

Answer 5

Was hard to understand, i say was because now I understand and I enjoy It very much.
Jesus Christ is The Word of God.
in Bible-NT-John 1: ' The Word of God', from verset 1 to 18 , is for me , about the definition of My Lord Jesus Christ God.
Read please:
"John
Chapter 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be
4 through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race;
5 the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 A man named John was sent from God.
7 He came for testimony, 6 to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.
8 He was not the light, but came to testify to the light.
9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.
11 He came to what was his own, but his own people 7 did not accept him.
12 But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,
13 who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man's decision but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh 9 and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth.
15 John testified to him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.'"
16 From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace,
17 because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, 12 who is at the Father's side, has revealed him."

Answer 6

Why He'd create anything in the first place. If I was Him, and knew what was going to happen with what I created (and He did) and how screwed up my creation was going to make it (and we did), I'd really have some reservations about doing it at all. So, knowing He knew what was going to happen (omniscience), it was very difficult for me to understand why He did it. I'm glad I understand that there WAS a purpose in it all.

Answer 7

To understand? Heaven. I would just want a fuller picture. Satan is also a pretty confusing character.

To accept? I have no problems here.

JoMo

Answer 8

I'm still struggling with the concept of...
I'm not sure about the part where....
Oh, hell and damnation, I'm beyond all that.
Eat slowly and chew well
What you don't understand, question, and wait for the answer
When the answer comes, accept it or reject it. It will not change the answer.

Answer 9

Hardest to understand is Daniel and Revelations.

Because its spoken in metaphors and similes.

Answer 10

How come good people have to go to hell?
What if they never got a chance to hear the good news?

I still struggle with that one