This is something about these forums that cause me to often read little, the simplicity of the gospel, and its beauty, lost. I used to like to listen to a minister on the radio, and, after him, came R.C. Sproul. I'd leave the radio on and listen to him sometimes, and that man could make a muck of "Jesus wept", with his having to account for every corrupt philosophy or related theory in the history of perversion, a steamroller of confusion, and coming to some bad conclusions, actually adopting an error.
You get these posts, a couple screenfuls or more, where it's one verse, then a long paragraph of man's reasoning and corruptions, the meaning lost, perverted. It's most always somebody trying to stuff their false religion, with its false doctrines, into the meaning of the verse. You just don't need all that blather over verses making clear statements, of the basic gospel. Much of what is disputed here of the Bible stands alone in its truth and simplicity. Think about it. You can't add that many words to many verses and remain true, because one's adding things that aren't there, from there own imaginings, in turn taking away the true meaning. If the Bible needed all those additional words, they would be there.
Agree with you very much there's evidence many need to unlearn, a lot, and just let the word of God speak. Maybe the Bible usually means just what it says? It's in the simple, unmolested truth that you find peaceful Bible harmony you won't find in a bickering forum of confusion. It's only unnecessary confusion, and because people have their own agendas and misunderstandings they have to inject into God's word.
