justbyfaith
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Romans and Greeks hated the Jews. The two sides considered the other disgusting on a normal basis.
A centurion believing in Judaism is way outside the norm. The existence of two centurion believers in Judaism is way beyond the scope of reason. Especially a centurion. You didn't rise up through the ranks by risking the ire of your superior officers.
One is sufficient...but the same story told from two perspectives is completely reasonable if you understand the culture.
The same is true for Judas' death.
Then we have the disparities in the story of the "Sending of the 12".
Mark's account differs extremely from the other accounts...and only "extra biblical knowledge" explains the reason.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
What do you need to know that's not contained in those passages?
Much love!
I don't need to know anything, why do you ask ?
If you are not a mechanic do you understand how to diagnose you car ?
If you are not a brain surgeon are you capable if diagnosing your brain ?
If you are not a carpenter/electrician are you able to build you house to code without knowledge of the skills required ?
If you do not know horticulture and have never studied it are you able to grow crops successfully ?
Does God operate in a human vacuum ?
Does knowledge have any validity for the farmer ?
The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding. … The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is a wonderful teacher and he gives the farmer great wisdom. – Isaiah 28:26-29
If you have the Holy Spirit then you have the expertise that is required to be able to interpret the word of the Lord....He has promised that if we have Him, He will guide us into all truth (John 16:13).
I suppose we could compare life to the car, and the Bible to the car manual. Incomplete reading may leave you not understanding what you can do with your car. But just the same, you don't need to know plastics composition to turn on the wipers, or metal machining to step on the brakes.
You need to know what's in the handbook.
Much love!
The way we were looking at it, the car represents the Bible; but I accept that idea also.
In times past...
Printed materials didn't exist...paper and ink were exorbitantly expensive. Books and writing were luxury items.
And no one who was wealthy enough to purchase such things ever became that way by wasting money. People expected value for their money.
So, when books were written, they left out the "of course" types of information that fills today's literature. The very subjects that people 3500 years ago would know off the top of their heads but are unrecognizable in today's society.
For example if I said that I had a frog in my throat today... you would not picture that I had an amphibian that was choking me.
Same thing goes with expressions from 2,000 to 5,000 years ago.
I find no idioms in the kjv of the Bible that cannot be understood in today's terminology.
Some are more doers than thinkers.
The former are greater than the latter.
So a knowledge of DNA and how it works doesn't help you understand Gods handiwork in creation. Now I understand your thinking process, thanks !
If there is any understanding of DNA that is needed to understand the Bible better, that understanding can be found in the pages of the Bible (perhaps in the Bible codes).
Is it a contradiction?
It's obviously not true today.
Why did John say that?
I believe in Jesus...I am a child of God.
And that goes directly against John 1:12
It does not go against that verse...for that verse tells us that if you have received Christ you have been given the power to become a son of the Lord.
Sound exegesis of Scripture involves the cultural and environmental background, who wrote it, when and why he wrote it, and who were the ones the Scripture was directed to. There are Scriptures that were written for us, and others that were written to us. Sound exegesis helps us determine which is which.
Would you say that Philippians 1:6 is not written to us because in Philippians 1:1 it is written that Philippians is written to the saints which are at Philippi with the bishops and deacons?