Older people read the Bible a lot, do you think we are studying for our final exam?
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NO, WE ARE BEING TOLD HOW TO PASS THE FINALS AND WHT WILL BE ON IT!
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dunno man\nI'm no bible guy, but I too am convinced that the end is near...\nWhy I think that is hard to say...\nI almost want to say that it just seems like the direction we're moving in...look at the weather...look at the anger...look at the strife...war is but a comment away
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I honestly believe they think those biblical verses are going to once again 'make us see the light' and bring us back when most of the time we just shake our heads in disgust and it reminds us why we left.  Most of us won't even READ them, we just skip over them.  A good chunk of us already know them so spouting them won't do anything.  Only thing it serves to do is drive us further away and remind us why we left to begin with!
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YES I DO! I KNOW THAT IT HAS BEEN RE-WROTE OVER AND OVER, BUT I ONLY READ KJV BIBLE BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST VERSIONS. SOME SAY KJV IS TO HARD TO UNDERSTAND BUT IT IS WROTE ON A 8TH GRADE LEVEL. SO ANY BODY COULD UNDERSTAND THAT. I BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE BECAUSE I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST AND I CAN FEEL HIM IN MY HEART AND SOUL.
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I have read the Bible, and in answer to your question, yes, I have.  P.S.  Well, I have read a good deal of the Bible, and some of it I have reread quite a bit.  Does that count?
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Yes!\nRead the BIBLE! instead of that ^_^
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Yes, several times. 2 chapters of the Christian Old Testament and 1 chapter of the New Testament daily get you through it in a year easy. Numbers? Yeah. How did I get through it? I endured being bored. ;-)
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Cautious.  I would feel the need to learn more about the Bible "study".  Too often such "study" is an indoctrination session with carefully selected passages, a strictly managed curriculum and little opportunity for meaningful discussion.  I don't mind having selections pre-chosen but if only pre-anticipated questions and pre-packaged answers are allowed, I won't last long.  I prefer a free-wheeling, multi-dimensional discussion of the whole reading: text, context, intent, cultural background, comparisons to similar passages, theological issues, application to real life, but not a spoon-fed "explanation".  \n\nAlternately, I could go for a slow prayerful, line-by-line, spontaneous hear-and-respond session.  Such "shared prayer" provides an unrehearsed spritual opportunity that can shake loose some surprising insights.
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No,  the Bible is already facing a lot of criticism, even the majority of it's followers do not believe the book is literal.  In another 2000 years our knowledge of the Universe will be enormous, such people that believe in the Bible will be considered insane, and probably treated.\n\nIf Science and Society were to push Biotechnology, along with Nanotechnology there is a possibility that some of us could live to see the year 4000.  After all the body is just a machine programmed to live a certain age.
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We should encourage each other that the Living Word is that which makes true the words in the Bible and not the other way around. \n\nThe Bible doesn't even point to the Bible. The Bible points to the Lord ... and so when I point to the Bible ... it is not for any other reason except for the highest hope that in there they might be able to focus on Jesus. And with that highest hope, it is now that I will point to the Bible (or actually the lack thereof) to demonstrate what I am talking about.\n\nWhen Saul (who became Paul) was stopped on the road, he was stopped by Jesus Christ the Lord, but this was not the Jesus of the New Testament ... nor the historic Jesus. At that time none of the books of the NT had been written, not even the gospels ... and though Saul had much (if not all) of the OT memorized ... Saul, like the Pharisees of that time, were searching the scriptures in vain, for they had not come to Christ for Life. However, provided that the Lord Jesus revealed many mysteries to Paul, it was then BY FOCUSSING on Jesus ... that we have two-thirds of the scriptures of the New Testament, for Paul only knew the Risen Lord by experience and experience alone.\n\nI am not saying "don't read your Bible."\nI am not saying "don't read your Bible."\nI am not saying "don't read your Bible." (thrice for effect.)\n\nWhat I am saying is that we should NOT underestimate the effect of focussing on Jesus because the nearness of the Lord and the instruction by the Spirit (that leads us to all Truth) is the perspective FROM WHICH the scriptures are written ... and any of us so blessed by the nearness and the instruction might one day find that the Bible reads like a deja vu (spelling?) \n\nWe might find ourselves reading what Paul wrote and saying to ourselves: "That sounds like something that I would have said."\n\nAnd it is to this end ... this highest hope ... that I say AMEN to the Bible, but even more so to the inspiration by which it was written and to which it points - the Risen Lord - the Living Word!
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HA HA. \n\nSome people might leave needing section 8, some people from other countries may not understand what that is. \n\nCute. \n\nSo your not theologically and scientifically challenged... Do share
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Congrats! I think you may be close to realizing one of the ~mysteries~ hidden from those who try to read Scripture w/o faith. Bless you!
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No....we are not bound to what we can/cannot read/see. Better we read and talk about it then say so without reading. Unless you rather not have such things in your head.  I have not read it, but my SIL has and she is a Christian.\nGod judges us by His Law not man made laws. His law is the Ten Commandments.  Nothing should/could persuade us otherwise.\nWhat unsaved people do not realize is we have no boundaries of what we can/cannot do. We have convictions that warn us of the consequences of doing what would be sinful in God's eyes. \nFar as I am concerned:  this book is just another way of trying to make a fool out of Christ.  I don't have to read/see it to know a devil when I hear of one.\nWe have been warned by Godly people.  Even if you do read/see it, mature Christians know the truth.   \nIt is SAD that people will be led down the wrong path that do not yet know the truth.\nNew Christians may just get confused as they are still in the learning stages of growing in Christ.  Better IF they see it to search for the truth as they read their Bible.\nSatan is the author of confusion.  So we already know who is behind it.
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I agree. The Bible has a lot of wisdom, a lot of true stories, a lot of symbolic stories, and errors.
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Yes, I have read the whole Bible, and much of it repeatedly.  Almost every time I read it I either am enriched by something I may have already learned years ago, or I learn something new and am enriched by that.  \n\nI discovered that preceding my reading with a quick prayer to God that He help me see or understand whatever it is that He wants me to see or understand, He does that, and I learn and benefit even more.\n\nI agree with the following quotes:\n\n"The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrector of all that is evil, in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men, and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide to future felicity."  - Noah Webster\n\n"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."  - Theodore Roosevelt\n\nI have also read many books about the Bible and which make reference to the Bible in the areas of history, archeology, astronomy, creation vs. evolution, sociology, etc.\n\nI wouldn't trade the Bible and its wisdom for all the money in the world.  That's how much it means to me in my daily life.
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Your difficulty at understanding some parts of the Bible is common.\nIn Acts 8:30, Phillip goes to an Ethiopian who is reading the Bible and asks:\n“Do you actually know what you are reading?” \nThe Ethiopian replies: \n“Really, how could I ever do so, unless someone guided me?”\nIT ALWAYS HELPS IF A MORE KNOWLEGEABLE ONE GUIDES YOU.\nFind one.\nGod is not working through individuals. He provided a book ...the Bible.\nProverbs 2:4,5 mentions to what extent we should ardently search/study the pages of the Bible.
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Yes, we are definitely in the last days and 2 Thessalonians is relevant for what's going on today. God has given even the elect over to reprobate mind just like the unbelievers. False prophets will rise and deceive those who are of God. We must have the spirit of discernment to expose evil works of Satan. I pray that we will be ready when Jesus comes and become watchmen.\n\nShalom