Why is the bible so open to interpretation?

[PeterJens]

Where is the truth in life? Where is the confusion?

Everything is a matter of perspective. The truth of most experience is our
own world experience. We assume people are basically like us. The problem is they are
not. We live our lives on assumptions, projections, our past experiences.

So people are happy to take Jesus's words and disbelieve them because they do not
match our experience. But Jesus is God. He believed in 12 guys and His impact on them.

But the message is when love takes hold of your heart it cannot be stopped.
There is no confusion with the Spirit of God. There is only confusion with the lost.

The reason why they all went to their deaths praising God is because this is just a veil
between us and God, and the life within transforms the reality without. When they saw
this it changed everything. No more desiring recognition, God has given it to us, no
more proving I am better than my neighbour, because God loves me. Whatever we want
to achieve in Christ we walk into eternity. So how can sin rise and take this away, once
you see the reality of who Christ is and what he has done.

 

[Dan_473]

There is a simple painful understanding here.

The argument goes, we sin all the time, it is inevitable, so you loose your salvation
everytime and re-establish it based on your repentance.

Now let me put this is terms of murder. I am happy with my family, I love them all, but
suddenly out comes a knife and stab each one of them to death.

The relationship still is going on, nothing has changed. We can talk, be pleasant, think
about our futures. No we cannot, they are dead.

Now one moment each sin is the same so it is deadly, and then suddenly sin no longer
matters and the consequences no longer exist. This is just junk. It is also foolish.

When did God ever say sin is ok? When is sin just a minor I am not sure that is sin, or not.

No sin is obvious. brutal. painful and causes harm all around.

Now no believer in HG thinks there is a problem, or they are in total rebellion against God.
But what is the point of Christ on the cross if you go out and do the same things again.

Jesus simply said things like "Sin no more."

It strikes me that the idea sin is everywhere, is undefined and implicit in all human behaviour
is what has caught the believers minds. This is a kind of OCD self condemnation. It is the fruit
of long term legalism and telling people who condemn themselves that they have believed satan
and really though they are sinning, God has forgiven it all. And the final poison is, the righteous
are just hypocrites living a lie. Now this speaks to the failures and hopeless cases, saying they
really have the truth, and everyone is just like them, they are just deluded and actually as
reprobate.

(this comment isn't about who's right or wrong on the thread)

hi Peter Jens,

some amount of misunderstanding may have occurred on this thread because you're using a nonstandard version of English.

for example, you wrote

"No sin is obvious. brutal. painful and causes harm all around."

what you wrote means that there aren't any sins that cause harm all around.







I think what you actually wanted was:

No, sin is obvious, brutal, painful, and causes harm all around.