Once nine of us sat in a circle. One whispered about something that happened to the one sitting beside him. This story was whispered to each until the end of the circle when they told what the story was. There was little similarity to the original story.
We read the bible like that. I am studying bible with lessons given by a man who dedicates his life to clearing out all the stories about what it says, and does his best to just zero in on what God says only. He also teaches so nothing he says disagrees with anything said in other parts of scripture, for God is one. Reading bible this way includes as much unlearning of principles I have been told as learning what God says. An example is "God is love" "The law kills" "we must obey" and all the bible says about law. You read on this forum the way humans scramble all these so one person says it is this way for this trumps everything, and no it is another way. This man says that it is the way of God, no other, and all scripture fits together.
The church almost from the first started with Constantine's rules of just get rid of anything the Jews say or do as a basic stand for reading scripture and worship. Scripture and Paul gives us guidelines for that, but the church reads these through the opinions of Constantine. In Hebrews is the word obsolete, so by golly, lets obsolete.
Listening to God and not man is difficult and complicated. Man has so stirred around with scripture.
We read the bible like that. I am studying bible with lessons given by a man who dedicates his life to clearing out all the stories about what it says, and does his best to just zero in on what God says only. He also teaches so nothing he says disagrees with anything said in other parts of scripture, for God is one. Reading bible this way includes as much unlearning of principles I have been told as learning what God says. An example is "God is love" "The law kills" "we must obey" and all the bible says about law. You read on this forum the way humans scramble all these so one person says it is this way for this trumps everything, and no it is another way. This man says that it is the way of God, no other, and all scripture fits together.
The church almost from the first started with Constantine's rules of just get rid of anything the Jews say or do as a basic stand for reading scripture and worship. Scripture and Paul gives us guidelines for that, but the church reads these through the opinions of Constantine. In Hebrews is the word obsolete, so by golly, lets obsolete.
Listening to God and not man is difficult and complicated. Man has so stirred around with scripture.
