Bible Scholars of Many Kinds

[wil]

Like all scriptures, the Bible is there to give us hope, and to inspire us to do something.

When ya build a good road, ya gotta put in the sharp turns and potholes just to make it fun?

 

[Thomas]

When ya build a good road, ya gotta put in the sharp turns and potholes just to make it fun?

LOL, I think that's all down to us ...

 

[Base12]

I don't quite understand.
Wouldn't it make sense to think of the bible in terms of the thoughts and understandings of the culture that produced it?

As a Christian, I believe it was inspired by God and written down by the Scribes...

2 Peter 1:21
"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

They may not even have fully understood what they wrote.

 

[TheLightWithin]

As a Christian, I believe it was inspired by God and written down by the Scribes...

2 Peter 1:21
"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

They may not even have fully understood what they wrote.

Another way of looking at it is that it was written by community leaders for their communities, and has been translated often out of context and with something lost in translation ever since...