Where does God say?

Question

Do not take the word of our Lord or Jesus Christ literally?

Also ...Where does it say "Disregard the word of our Lord and of Jesus Christ from the Old Testament?

If this does not exist then are these just interpretations?

Answer 1

you need to stop dieting - you look a little too thin...

Answer 2

Sure, they're interpretations, but you're poisoning the well by calling them "just" interpretations. The only thing that matters is whether the interpretations are scripturally based or not. I could just as well ask where does God say to take every word of Jesus Christ literally?

Answer 3

Anyone who has learned the concepts of literal versus figurative language, which is normally taught in grade school, can understand where the Bible is to be taken literally and where it is figurative speech.

Let the Bible speak for itself and when you see it in the Book believe it for what it says. Paul said of Timothy, "From childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures . . ." (II Timothy 3:15). If a child can understand it, can’t you?

Jeremiah, who lived under the Law given at Sinai, said that this Law was temporary and that God was going to make a New Law with His people: "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah - not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt” (Jeremiah 31:31,32). The New Law would be different from the Old. Jeremiah spoke these words 900 years after the Law was given at Mt. Sinai and 600 years before Christ gave the New Law. The writer of Hebrews in the New Testament quotes this passage from Jeremiah and applies it to Jesus Christ who is "also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second" (Hebrews 8:6-13).

What happened to the Old Testament (the Old Law, or Old Covenant)? The New Testament tells us, "In that He says, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away" (Hebrews 8:13). "For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness, for the law made nothing perfect..." (Hebrews 7:18,19). "Then He said, 'Behold, I have come to do Your will, 0 God.' He takes away the first that He may establish the second" (Hebrews 10:9). "For the priesthood being changed, of necessity, there is also a change of the law" (Hebrews 7:12). The apostle Paul wrote: "Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements (the Law of Moses) that was against us, which was contrary to us, And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross" (Colossians 2:14). Paul also wrote concerning this Old Law which contained the Ten Commandments: "Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor" (Galatians 3:24, 25).

Answer 4

The bible says that He would speak to us in parables. Parables are allegories, symbolic of something else. Jesus Himself interprets his own parables and tells us that the sewer of the seed isn't a real farmer planting, it is someone spreading the word of God. And Paul tells us in Hebrews that the things written in the scriptures past were written as examples for us. And if you're spiritual, you can see that the old testament passover lamb, for example, represents Christ who was our sacrificial lamb for our sins. Just because God commanded them to sacrifice lambs in the old testament, does that mean we should do so today? No. It was so we would understand what Christ was going to be to us, our sacrificial lamb. This is just one example of why we seem to "disreguard" some of the old testament. It doesn't apply to today. Jesus said again in a parable, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins." In another place He compared the new covenant to new wine. What He is saying there is that you can't lay the new covenant on the old or both will be ruined.

Answer 5

Where did you get the idea that God says or said anything? God is a spirit, and nobody knows anything else about God. A lot of people since the beginning of time have put words in God's "mouth." Judging from your avatar and id you are not fond of religion, so why not just live your life the best way you can. Be a good person and enjoy.

Answer 6

The bible is the word of God translated by man/human. Then take into account we are talking over 2000 years ago. I believe that some of his true teaching were lost in these translations. It's like a ghost writer, is it going to be completely literal? Isn't this writer going to incorporate some of there own interpretation?

Answer 7

You don't need a direct commandment in order to read the Bible that way. If you look at the book as a whole, very little of it is written as an actual historical account. There's allegory, poetry, prophecy, parables, aphorisms, etc. The genres and literary devices need to be taken into consideration in order to understand what it's saying, just like any piece of literature.

Answer 8

Let's establish our faith from the based from the Gospel.

What we can read are these:

John 6:63

" It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. "


You should not take the word of Christ literally.

We should listen to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 17:5

"While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. "


We must be very careful whom to believe to. Don't just believe everything that we hear from people. Make sure it's written.

1 Corinthians 4:6

"And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. "


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Answer 9

No where in Scripture will you find those quotes.
Since they are not in the Bible, they are not interpretations of Biblical quotes.
Instead, they are the lies of Satan to keep people from worshiping their Savior.

Answer 10

it's what ppl say not the bible