Yes scriptures had been and still is being misintrepreted, both
purposely and not,to fit certain men's belief.
................................
(1) When you
see contradictions in the bible.
......................
For the part that you haven't understand leave them be for the
moment. (2) Ask
experts if you like. Real experts! But take it as a
perspective only even the experts may come to a wrong
conclusion.
Hi M&P,
I am just curious to know (1) when and where
are there contradictions in the bible?
And I agree with you that we need to (2) ask
the experts and these are priests and pastors (really properly
trained ones) and not those that claimed "God spoke to me.....crapy
Korean or American styled" self proclaimed pastor or senior pastor
or whatever they like to call themselves.
At the end of the day, we cannot interpret the bible as we like
and we must accept the explanations as given to us by the trained
experts. To me personally, it does not matter which denomination
one comes from but if we choose that denomination, one believed
everything completely - if the explanations does not sounds correct
or convincing to ne, then it may be an indication to start
searching and look into other denominations with an open mind. It
will be strange to says that one is a xyz Christians but does not
beleive in everything that Church teaches.
Good example are those who worship greedy gospel, they really
believed that being geeedy is what god wants although it is clearly
what their self pro-claimed pastor wants. But they belived 100%
anyway although their preacher may be untrained or trained ftom
unkown sources etc..., they believed every words their pastor
said.
Ultimately, God has spoken to us thru the prophets, Christ has
come to fulfilled the prophecies, the bible and the Holy Spirit is
here to guide us. We need to have faith and pray for God's grace of
wisdoms and use them.
There is no contradictions in the bible and everything from
Genesis to Revelation is the truth. Not everything that is said in
the bible may have happened in the way it is described because they
are passed down orally (and people tends to add in their own
elements when they tell stories) and some might not even have
happened. But the important thing is not the vehicle but the
passenger - I.E. the message that God wants to bring to us thru the
bible which St Paul sums up best as faith, hope and love and
nothing is greater than love.
The healing of the little girl is a grace from God and she
rightly thanked God for it beacuse she has put her faith in God. To
non-believers, this is stupidity and crap and some even blamed God
for getting sick! It's one choice where they want to be.