2007-10-19 02:40:16 · 9 answers · asked by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is such a miasma of myths, fables and dogma abstracted from a range of different cultures, that it forms a matrix into which anyone can insert their own meaning.
Unfortunately, they do!
2007-10-19 02:45:30 · answer #1 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the portion of the Bible. Some of it is very clear, percise law. Other parts are poetry and wise sayings that are more open to interpretation. Some of it is vision in the form of strange beast and other images that are very obviously intended to be interpreted. Something like a parable is, of course, intended to be "interpreted", and usually is within the scriptures itself.
Even amount the "strict laws" there is room for "interpretation". For example, no where in the Bible is Internet porn mentioned. Probably because 99% of the people who have lived on earth throughout history have not had the Internet. But the law about "no looking at a woman to lust after her" can reasonably and logically extended to mean that looking at her on the Internet would be wrong. Is that an "interpretation"?
If you actual read the Bible, you will find that most of it is very plain, clear, and easily understood. I like the quote from Mark Twain about the Bible, "Its not the parts I don't understand that bother me. Its the parts I do."
2007-10-19 02:59:01 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It all depends on you and only you. Either way when i first read the bible i found that i already did a lot of things Jesus advices christians to do only because i was born in a christian society and the way we behave is influenced a lot by the society we live in.
But how can we apply the Bible in our days after more then 2000 years? mayby basic concepts should be taken from the Bible and applyed nowadays and this i think should happen also with the other two laws of God, the Koran and the Torah.
2007-10-19 04:07:58 · answer #3 · answered by Catcy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom to interpret is central to Christianity because in accordance with the teaching itself, we rely on the Holy Spirit to help us interpret scripture and apply it to our lives. This is hard work most lazy people want to avoid.
But, take freedom to interpret away, and everything is worthless legalism and worshipping some 'men who know' who really don't.
2007-10-20 04:26:48 · answer #4 · answered by Steven Ring 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cite Mt. 5:17, yet pass over an important truth from that passage. The reference is to the "regulation and prophets". in this context, that is what's cutting-edge in both the "regulation" and the "prophets" that has the skill to be "fulfilled" as contrasted to "destroyed". There aren't any rules codified contained in the prophets. that is an assumption that is about the legalities of the regulation, and the context does no longer help this assumption. What exists contained in the regulation (first 5 books of Moses) and the prophets with the skill to be fulfilled or destroyed are prophesies. elsewhere, Jesus reported that he got here to fulfill what become written of him contained in the regulation, prophets, and psalms. The case might want to be made that the regulation itself become "fulfilled" seeing because it turned right into a covenant regulation, and the situations of the covenant were met by technique of Jesus. His death, seeing as he become the God of the former covenant incarnate, ended that covenant on a similar time as a wedding ceremony covenant is terminated upon the death of both social gathering, as Paul explains in Romans 7. once the duties of a freelance/covenant were met, it would want to be suggested the settlement/covenant has certainly been fulfilled or finished. .
2016-10-21 10:06:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Literal Law of God or man's law as seen at specific times of history. Not all legal aspects in the Bible are God's law, because some were of men as in Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.
2007-10-19 02:47:59 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't see how anything written so long ago can be regarded as literal law, many things included in the bible have surely lost there relevance (nudge, nudge Muslims), imo it is definitely open to interpretation.
2007-10-19 02:45:51 · answer #7 · answered by not Stidge again 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are two ways to view this. Either you worship the bible, or your worship God. You can't worship both. So, "open to interpreation," is my answer.
2007-10-19 02:52:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
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Avon dude- you cannot prove that, you are speaking in ignorance.
2007-10-19 02:46:07 · answer #9 · answered by Jeff- <3 God <3 people 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋