How many of you have had God take the same bible story you have read a million times and taught you something new? Can you give an example?
2007-05-30 16:49:38 · 16 answers · asked by † H20andspirit 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Renee you would be surprized
2007-05-30 19:16:51 · update #1
Perfect example depoetic I never even thought the older brother could be the nation of Israel
2007-05-30 19:23:56 · update #2
Awesome answers all...can't pick a best one
2007-05-30 20:58:50 · update #3
I have, yes.
The story of Noah and Abraham and Moses and Joseph... o, so many...
2007-05-30 16:52:40 · answer #1 · answered by pinkstealth 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All of us possess talents - we are, quite simply, better at doing some things than most other people.
I believe that some people have a talent for teaching and instructing. I have heard priests and ministers - by no means all, but a few - who have had a knack for taking an ordinary, mundane text from the Bible and making it sparkle in a whole new light. While I do not possess this particular talent (and I am a teacher myself, but not a gifted teacher such as these), I appreciate what these teachers can do to make my understanding of what otherwise would have been a passed-over verse or passage very meaningful.
I wish I could give you a concrete example - but it's after midnight and I'm out of brain power. I'll think about it and try to post one in the morning.
2007-05-31 00:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by jimbob 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This happened to me last semester, when I was taking a very challenging Psychology of Religion course. I was not that resolute in my faith at the time, party because I attend university in a very secular environment, and partly because I am one of those people that constantly has a crisis of faith. Thus, I had a pretty superficial grasp of the Bible because I avoided reading it extensively .
Anyway, I had to write an essay about a story in the Bible that demonstrated how the concept of the Anima, the feminine aspect of a male persona according to Jung, manifested in the Bible. I chose the story of Lot and his wife, which I had read many times and it never had a tremendous impact on me.
During that time, I was really overwhelmed. The past three years for me had been very distressing, and I had experienced a lot of personal tragedies and dissapointments. As a result, I couldn't live in the present because my mind was constantly consumed with the past - reliving every single painful experience and every bad decision, and allowing it to affect me all over again. I never let the wounds from the past heal. Now, you probably know where this story is going. I wrote about Lot and his wife, and then I asked myself: why does Lot's wife become a pillar of salt when she looks back? Could it be that God is implying that intensive ruminating on the past can be harmful, rather than helpful? That act of "looking back" had taken over my life at that point, and I guess something in that story really affected me in a way that it never had precisely because I saw a message within it. Looking back at the chaos and turmoil in your past can destroy you.
2007-05-31 00:14:00 · answer #3 · answered by LeilaK 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if this helps but the other day I was reading the creation account. I've read it and taught in Sunday School I don't know how many times, but I noticed something I never did before.
God said let there be light and there was light. However he didn't say let there be darkness. It was already there. He called the light good, but really doesn't refer to the darkness.
It is like the world today in a spiritual sense. There is already darkness in the world. Darkness is anything contrary to God's perfect will. Things like social injustice, child abuse, rape ext. But Christians are said to be the light of the world. God has to create light out of darkness.
I thought that was interesting.
2007-05-31 00:04:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many times I was taught different ways of thinking on a matter I was going thru from reading the same passage from the bible, I,VE even thought to myself as the reading revealed a different prospect to where I was in my life how what I was reading had a different meaning to me now. Isn,t God Amazing?
2007-05-30 23:59:22 · answer #5 · answered by jmada05 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have. I can read the same verse over and over putting emphasis on a different word each time and get an entirely new understanding each time. It really is a neat learning exercise. Example for yourself... read John 2:1-11. Now read it again and put emphasis on different words in the verses.
Hope this helps.
2007-05-31 00:03:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the scripture that says ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
I had read that many times, but the Lord showed me that it means, when you realize the truth of what ever is coming against you, i. e. an attack of satan, an opressing spirit, a strong hold, a generational curse, etc. once you know what it is you are then made free from it. The truth of knowing what it is makes you free.
Praise God.
2007-05-31 00:01:20 · answer #7 · answered by wisdom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The prodigal Son.
Took me forever to understand that the jealous older brother was the Nation of Israel and the prodigal brother was the Gentiles.
The plagues of Egypt.
I never understood that God was taking pot shots directly at the Egyptian pantheon of gods and goddesses to prove He was the real thing.
(I have a really cool comparative study on this, now!)
The word for "rib" - "as in woman was made from Adam's rib" in Hebrew is only used one other place - in 1st Kings - and it refers to a bearing post on which the whole building rests... This puts a whole new light on what woman is to be for man...
Then there's the Greek word for "sufficient" in 2nd Corinthians 12:9... it's root comes from a word meaning a hedge of protection - of thick impenetrable thornes through which the enemy cannot pass.
That puts a whole new spin on what God's grace is for us:
2Co 12:9 And He said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Peace.
2007-05-31 00:21:06 · answer #8 · answered by Depoetic 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Renee, lots of Christians don't believe everything in the Bible. If you think the Bible is 100% the true Word of God, that makes you a Bible-ian.
2007-05-30 23:55:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Just the other day I heard someone talking about how Eve was made from Adam's side and not his foot. It implied that Eve was to walk side by side with Adam, and not be walked on by Adam. Just a simple scripture, but it means so much with regard to equality of the sexes.
2007-05-30 23:57:13 · answer #10 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Everytime I read Proverbs, something new speaks to me.
Read 1 Proverb a day!
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2007-05-31 00:02:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋