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1 | Should the Bible be taken literally? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 4227 | ||
Thank you for being more than gracious in your answer. How do we explain the phenomena in the Soviet Ukraine? Bibles were smuggled in behind the iron curtain and for the most part readers became healthy Christians without any additional teaching. Where problems did arise, in isolated cases, it was found the problem occurred because the group only had fragmented sections of the Bible. They had based their doctrine not on the whole Bible but rather the sections they had. Similar stories are starting to emerge from the main land of China. I think your example of the watch tower is what I’m questioning, didn’t they take God’s word and reduce it down to human reasoning? They took the sections they liked and kept them, the sections they couldn’t explain they rewrote so they could. |
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2 | Should the Bible be taken literally? | Bible general Archive 1 | melchizedekau | 4230 | ||
If i was you i would be questioning all things that are jehova s witness. put all things in context with the Word of God and dont let them tell you you have to work to get to heaven. cause we are called and chosen by God. He does the work and Gives us the desires.All by the Blood of Jesus.YIC. | ||||||
3 | Wow! Where did that come from? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 4338 | ||
Where did that come from? I don't think for a moment anyone bought anything the Jehovah Witnesses are selling. They can't even get God's name right. Jehovah is a made up word by William Tyndale in the 1500's. He took the constants in the Tetragram YHWH and added the vowels from the Latin Adonai and using common laws of speech came up with Jehovah. But thanks for the thought. |
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4 | Wow! Where did that come from? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 4353 | ||
Apparently the King James Version translators fell into the trap set by Tyndale in giving us "Jehovah" for the tetragrammation YHWH. Jehovah is a hybrid linguistic contrivance that is the result of an "ignorance gap" by the translators, both Tyndale and the King James committee, of the Hebrew language and customs. They did well with what they had, but much more has been added to the lore of the ancient languages and customs since 1611. YHWH, the name itself, was considered by the Hebrews as too holy to utter so the Hebrew word adonai (Lord) was substituted when the text was read. Most modern translations have set Lord in upper-case type, LORD, to indicate YHWH is meant. The designation "tetragrammaton" is from the Greek, meaning "four letters". --Hank | ||||||
5 | Should the Bible be taken literally? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 4711 | ||
I will probably be accused of beating a dead horse but let me ask my question once more. Should the Bible be taken literally? By that I mean in some passages some men say, “this particular passage is only addressing a problem brought about by a custom or tradition of the time and does not pertain to the church today.” Again I hesitate to point to a specific passage, but let me cite one that is less inflammatory there are many other examples. God in his wisdom told the Jews not to eat pork. I have heard the reason for this was bad sanitation of the time and pork’s susceptibility to parasites. I also heard that because they didn’t have refrigeration and that pork spoiled quickly as being another reason. Another said that they weren’t able to cook the meat completely and so forth. I think we have all heard such examples. We also all know that the prohibition did not apply gentile believers, and that various other passages clearly tell us as Christians we are not under the law and the old dietary prohibitions, and that God has made all thing clean, etc. However we also now know that pork probably isn’t the best thing for us to eat and God may have reasons for the prohibition we never considered. God might have included that just to see who would be faithful in the small things. The truth be known we just don’t know why God gave this prohibition to the Jews. Let’s not get into a discussion of whether we should eat pork or not. Please this question is not whether we should eat pork or not. My question is if God through his faithful servants writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit says “thus and such”. Should we attempt to apply man’s logic to what God said and if being able to do so, upon finding out our theorized situation no longer exist should we then ignore the scripture? |
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6 | Should the Bible be taken literally? | Bible general Archive 1 | Searcher56 | 4850 | ||
The Bible must be taken literally, unless there is a figurative word used ... words like as and like. Does it all apply to us? NO. Mark 16:18 come to mind. I am not going to pick up snakes or drink poison. However, we cannot theorize that the Holy Spirit wants us to change the Word, so we do what we want. For example, I believe we do not worship as God wants - on our knees prostrate before the Almighty ... focsing on Him alone. We add praise, giving Him worth, service and other activities. |
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