To: StormPrepper
The Bible is a tool of learning. It doesn't contain everything we need, but it's useful.
"Useful" is an understatement in describing the Holy Bible!
What do you find lacking in it for a reader/hearer coming to a knowledge of the truth regarding and believing in Who Jesus of Nazareth really is.
To: Resettozero
"Useful" is an understatement in describing the Holy Bible!
That's your opinion. I respect that everyone has their own.
What do you find lacking in it for a reader/hearer coming to a knowledge of the truth regarding and believing in Who Jesus of Nazareth really is
The New Testament is not a complete instruction manual. Most of it is writings to specific groups of people reiterating and restating what they had been taught, face to face by the Apostles.
Nearly all of their specific instructions on how and what to do in Christ Church was all taught orally.
Such as Acts 8:
18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
The Holy Ghost this is referring to is called the "Gift of the Holy Ghost". It's a different gift given by the laying on of hands by those with proper authority.
It's different than the Holy Spirit which testifies of truth, which anyone can feel.
The scriptures chosen by the council in 382AD didn't contain any instruction on how, what, or why and so it was lost over time.
Christ said with perfect knowledge of what's to come, that only those that do what His Father commands would enter heaven. The problem with modern Christianity is that it only allows itself to use the Bible so it really doesn't know what to do with that statement.
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