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The Bible is pretty much black and white. It doesn't take any special power to discern some things.
Oh there are deeper things, spiritual things to be sure. But most of it is pretty obvious.
Don't kill.
Don't steal.
Don't sleep with your neighbors wife.
If you are a male, don't sleep with another male.
etc...
It doesn't take a lot of spin and spiritual discernment to know what these things mean.
It seems some Christians have a way of taking a plain everyday verse...
1 Cor 6:9-10; is a good example..
1 Cor 6:9; Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
1 Cor 6:10; nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
..many are explaining away all of the sin out of it. It was meant for Jews only, it was meant the unsaved only. It was meant as a metaphor. It was meant spiritually only. It was meant for the priests having affairs with male prostitutes. It wasn't really meant at all. It was just superfluous rhetoric. ... the list goes on..
Some of the Bible isn't all as mystical and spiritual as some people make it out to be.
The old Roman Catholic church wanted to keep the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, and transpose much of
what they said to Latin. This was to keep the "deep dark" secret of the Bible out of the hands of those
who "didn't understand" it or would misuse it. (The misuse part I semi-agree with).
But of course now we have multiple translations written in many languages all over the world. Anyone
can read the Bible. Much of it, anyone can understand.
If someone is taking a plain black and white verse and putting so much spin on it that is almost unrecognizable and completely disagrees with what you just read, it's a false teaching plain and
simple.
Many people get saved... just reading the Bible for themselves. These people don't need someone to explain everything to them. At least not the basics of salvation. It's usually when other come in and say things like "It isn't really what you think it is" or "that verse doesn't apply anymore" or "Let me tell you where that verse is wrong"... that's when people get confused, divisions occur, and souls stay in the dark.
Most of the time.. the Bible just says what it says. Plain and simple.
2 Cor 11:3; But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
2 Cor 11:4; For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you willingly accept whatever they say.
Oh there are deeper things, spiritual things to be sure. But most of it is pretty obvious.
Don't kill.
Don't steal.
Don't sleep with your neighbors wife.
If you are a male, don't sleep with another male.
etc...
It doesn't take a lot of spin and spiritual discernment to know what these things mean.
It seems some Christians have a way of taking a plain everyday verse...
1 Cor 6:9-10; is a good example..
1 Cor 6:9; Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
1 Cor 6:10; nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
..many are explaining away all of the sin out of it. It was meant for Jews only, it was meant the unsaved only. It was meant as a metaphor. It was meant spiritually only. It was meant for the priests having affairs with male prostitutes. It wasn't really meant at all. It was just superfluous rhetoric. ... the list goes on..
Some of the Bible isn't all as mystical and spiritual as some people make it out to be.
The old Roman Catholic church wanted to keep the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, and transpose much of
what they said to Latin. This was to keep the "deep dark" secret of the Bible out of the hands of those
who "didn't understand" it or would misuse it. (The misuse part I semi-agree with).
But of course now we have multiple translations written in many languages all over the world. Anyone
can read the Bible. Much of it, anyone can understand.
If someone is taking a plain black and white verse and putting so much spin on it that is almost unrecognizable and completely disagrees with what you just read, it's a false teaching plain and
simple.
Many people get saved... just reading the Bible for themselves. These people don't need someone to explain everything to them. At least not the basics of salvation. It's usually when other come in and say things like "It isn't really what you think it is" or "that verse doesn't apply anymore" or "Let me tell you where that verse is wrong"... that's when people get confused, divisions occur, and souls stay in the dark.
Most of the time.. the Bible just says what it says. Plain and simple.
2 Cor 11:3; But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
2 Cor 11:4; For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you willingly accept whatever they say.