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To: Sam's Army

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38 posted on 03/18/2016 11:43:45 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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The Bible is the word of God? Perhaps we can say The Holy Bible contains “Words of God”.

The Bible is Holy, that is not so say The Bible is perfect. We know it is not perfect, how did Judas die?

We don’t have any “original” Biblical writings, we have from the memories of men what has been said and what may have been written but no original.

Is perfection in The Holy Bible important? I would say that the ideas prescribed in The Holy Bible are important and certainly all the words of God are important but do we have all the words of God? I think not.

In the various councils trying to unify the early church into what we call the Universal or Catholic church today many books were destroyed and didn’t make the cut. Were all the books that didn’t make it into what we now have illegitimate? Who knows? Is it important.

Today for the most part most Christian churches use the same Holy Bible yet have different doctrines, so just how important is every “jot and tittle”. We don’t have jots and tittles any more because we don’t read the scriptures in Hebrew. Since there are no extant Aramaic scriptures we don’t really have Jesus’ words, we only have translations of what people thought they were generations later.

We don’t teach The Bible anymore anyway, we teach philosophy and mix it with a few scriptures here and there and call it religion. I think it odd that at church the preacher will get up or have someone get up and read a verse or two of scripture and then spend the next 40 minutes telling us what he thinks it means while next door at another church it will have an entirely different meaning.

We are not all in the “unity of faith”, hardly because in our world “the Church” has become more important than our faith. It is sad. Churches compete for each other members based on the different beliefs in what the words of The Holy Bible mean.

The Bible is the word of God as far as it was recorded and translated correctly. There are some ideas written in one language that simply cannot be properly translated into some other languages. There are many more concepts and ideas that cannot be conveyed simply by translating the words in one culture to those of another.

The fact is that unless you read The Bible yourself and have The Holy Ghost as your guide while reading you will not get what you want from it. If you don’t do some study to try to understand the culture and history of the writers you will not understand what is written.

The words of God are perfect. All the words of God will be fulfilled. I suspect that The Holy Bible is mostly The Words of God, but that book as wonderful as it is, is not perfect.

Flame on!


41 posted on 03/18/2016 12:15:34 PM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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