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1 | God Intentionaly Made Bible Difficult? | Bible general Archive 1 | John Reformed | 31676 | ||
The difficulties I experience in understanding the scriptures arise from at least two weaknesses of mine. First:I am a sinner. This means that from time to time what the bible says is not what I want to hear and so instead of accepting the plain sense of the text, I twist it to suit myself. I must remember to pray and ask God to enlighten my mind thru the ministry of The Holy Spirit. Second: I'm not that knowledgeable about the culture and history that existed at the times the books of the bible were written. I therefore rely heavily on commentaries and study Bibles that help to fill in the blanks in my education. However I must bear in mind that the opinion of a commentator is not scripture itself. It's my resposibility to be a good Berean and prove what is said by the word of God. That being said there are many good resouces on the net. I like Matthew Henry an John Calvins commentaries. Knowing Scripture by R.C. Sproul is also a very good and inexpensive book. May the Lord bless you in your pursuit of Christ thru His word. |
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2 | God Intentionaly Made Bible Difficult? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 31705 | ||
Hello, John Reformed. It's a pleasure to welcome you! We have a Reformer Joe on the forum also. If we put you two reformers together, we can make a sentence: John reformed reformer Joe :-) .... John, your confessed weaknesses remind me ever so poignantly of mine, for I too find myself secretly wishing that the Bible was just a bit more lenient on this or that; and I too am beholden to every responsible commentary, study Bible, map, concordance, picture or chart that I can get my hands on that holds even a pale promise of being able to equip me better to understand more about God's word. The lady or gentleman who asked the original question of this thread asked whether God intentionally made the Bible difficult to understand. Well, the first answer that comes to mind is this. God is sovereign and it is no business of mine to impugn his intentions. But I feel that the questioner had no such aims as this. John, I like to think of what some people see in the Bible as difficulties and challenges in a different category of thought -- as rich mines of pure gold that God has deposited for us, but in his wisdom he knows that it is to our ultimate benefit that we do at least a part of the digging for ourselves, but the Holy Spirit shines a lantern on our efforts as we dig. Well, I never intended the welcome mat to extend to so large a carpet! I hope that your experiences on the forum will be enjoyable and fruitful. Soli Deo Gloria! --Hank | ||||||
3 | God Intentionaly Made Bible Difficult? | Bible general Archive 1 | JMHO | 31777 | ||
Hank (and all): One of the most difficult parts for me is that another person, like you, doing their dammest, with essentially equal doses of: intellect, faith and Holy Sprit ....will read the same words of God and come to fundamentally different conclusions on many basic questions: literalism, election,apostates, etc. etc. I'm not looking for robotic interpetation, but the seemingly unlimited variations from people of good faith and intentions is mind boggling for a new Christian. Objective truth????? God's got to have a sense of humor (or at least irony) . |
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4 | God Intentionaly Made Bible Difficult? | Bible general Archive 1 | prophet ezra brown | 31866 | ||
no thats not true listen the bible says that in all thy getting get an understnding remember that you can get aother revalation ever time you read a scripture but they will always connect please start to read your bible daily start with genesis and go down to revelation ask god for an understanding you only have not because you ask not. | ||||||