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Topic: Religions > Bible
User: "Christine"
Date: 04 Apr 2004 01:34:31 PM
Object: The Bible
Outside the faith the Bible can look impossible to believe, or maybe,
at least, tedious.
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Now for myself, I find that I meet with God on those pages in the
Bible. Before I became born again into Jesus Christ, I could not
understand it, and only gleaned the most superficial understanding of
Jesus Christ
Maybe in another post, when I specifically look at some passages I
will be able to convey what that means, more fully.
For example, people will say "well how come the gospels do not agree
on the details?
I have found, more than once, that there is an important revelation
from God in those very differences. Notice that the four Gospels
account the same life and three (the synoptic gospels of Mark,
Matthew, and Luke) are supposed to be pretty much the same, but there
are differences and they are there for a reason,
because I think when Jesus Christ spoke He used few words that were
powerfully packed with meaning and He could be speaking to a crowd of
thousands and each person in that crowd may have felt He was speaking
specifically to them about something that was on their mind that day
or His words impacted them differently and are stored differently in
memory.
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So one reads vertically and horizontally. Like for example read the
whole chapter within a gospel and see the placement of the verse that
really captures and arrests your thoughts and also compare the chapter
with what is supposed to be a similar account in other Gospels.
Also one may get a different revelation from the same passages at
different times and of course different people will get different
meanings.
To me that is the very reason why the Bible is so special, rather
than a liability.
I had only begun to be able to actually read the Bible in June of last
year, but my NIV version had become so worn and torn with so many
pages missing, I had to read the King James version....and that is
ploddingly---it is somewhat difficult dealing with all those thous and
wouldests and cometh unto meeth and stuffeth....
yesterday I went to a Christian bookstore and got myself another NIV (
ranked as one of the highest versions for agreement to the ancient
cources and a massive undertaking by people all across the world from
ALL denominations---and in English that I can recognize! yayyyyyy-!)
Though I will still read the KJV to supplement the other reading,
because it is so lyrical and poetic additional meanings may be taken.
I was knocked out by all of the Bible reading tools they sold, it was
amazing! And the different new versions of the Bible, like the
student Bible or Life application Bible---that came along with pithy
modern day examples written on the pages. Or the commentaries, or the
planned Bible studies and questions to ask....
....and I thought they were kind of cool, if I read the Bible because I
felt I should read the Bible because it was what I was told to do or
thought I *had* to do....
....but the addition and injection of these secondary sources imputing
meaning took away from the meaning itself. Here is how I know:
this week I had a passage on my mind, I woke up with it in the
morning and have been meditating on its meaning at the end of the
day....I had been on the net surfing to find the different
commentaries on it to see if they jibed with my own....and they didn't
get all of it and the new student and life application and
commentaries only provided the most superficial of examinations.
It is really tempting sometimes to get some book that brings a new
fresh light to being a Christian and following Jesus, but in the final
analysis no secondary source comes anywhere near to the full on
insight one will get by digging into the word and mining it alone for
all of its meaning .
Some well meaning Christian once suggested that I did not read the
Bible enough, because for now I stay in the NT and regard it as my
ultimate authority where there is an unresolved contradiction. I
don''t know what "enough" is supposed to mean, this one fellow told me
ten passages a day. If I go through ten passages a day, me thinks I
will miss much of the point and it will be an excercise in rote, and
ritual.
Instead I read what I read whith thoroughness and much prefer that, it
might mean that I spend a great deal more time, maybe years in the NT,
but I think I much prefer it. It simply means I get to know Jesus on
a deeper level and linger with Him a nice slow walk, listening to Him
in all the things He has to say to me.
well, next post then....
In Christ
Christine
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User: "Pastor Dave"

Title: Re: The Bible 06 Apr 2004 11:30:49 AM
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 18:34:31 GMT, Christine
<Christine@John3:16.com> spake thusly:
I went to www.john316.com and I see that they mention
web hosting, etc.. I see nowhere on there to find out
anything about it, nor what they still do provide
regarding internet services though. Do you have any
idea how to do so?
--
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"As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor
to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day;
thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right
before thee." - Jeremiah 17:16
If your bible is falling apart, chances are your
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