Reading the bible with the holy spirit is an art to say the least the word of God is like an onion or the earths crust it has man y layers upon layers one can read it a thousand times and yet still find hidden treasures they didn't see before no other book can claim such a thing. But as I grew in my faith and matured as a believer i also grew in how i read my bible, I am one who is about perspective when i look around i like to take things into perspective i like to to look at everything from different angles i never like to look at something in one way. I like to try to see from other peoples point of view and compare it to my own i like to try to match the perspective of people from the bible to my own situations in life as well.
That being said when it comes to reading the bible perspective can play a major role in how i understand it. I see how many people have all kinds of views and beliefs many different opinions and understanding many different doctrines and theologies each one believing they alone hold the truth each one believing it was holy spirit lead.
Yet God is not the author of confusion he is the God of truth I ntoiced that each person seemed to go into their bibles with their own perspective their own views their own doctrines already set in stone and so therefore when they read the scriptures that is what they saw in the scriptures, this was a problem to me as it seemed to me that what if they were in the wrong about something but were to blind to see it due to the fact they already believed so firmly in their own views that they remained ignorant to the truth right in front of them?
So bot wanting to make that same mistake though it isn't always easy to do i try to read my bible or in my case listen due to my damaged eyes without any preset views or doctrines in my mind a clean slate so that i read the scriptures as pure and truth only no doctrine no interpretation no beleif system just the word of God as it is.
Another thing is that since i am a writer i know how the formula of words work. certain words are placed in certain places for a reason to mean certain things and depending on where they are placed and what words surround that word can change the meaning of that word entirely. it is like a song if you or a painting each note or image is placed in a certain area to be something and what surrounds it defines it each note every brust of pain is specific for a reason i make it a point to question why certain words that may mean something else are placed where they are what words are or sentences surround them and do they have an effect to the meaning of that word?
This leads me to the next part and that is to take the chapter as a whole first. just today i was in a debate with a user on another forum who when i asked for scriptural evidence for his theory gave a verse and highlighted a sentence in the verse that had to with his theory but when i looked up the chapter in which he pulled up the verse from and read the whole chapter first i saw that what the chapter was saying and what he was saying were two completely different things.
I told him this and how dangerous it was to cheryy pick verses like that and that you have to take scripture as a whole first then look for your theology he did not approve of my comment. but this goes along with what i said above the things that surrounded the verse he pulled brought the verse into perspective it also turned out that the particular word he was trying to use to prove his thology in the verse was placed in a particular order to mean something that was not what he was trying to make it seem based on two words that surrounded it.
Reading the bible is an art I am a writer and an artist as well so i try to use these abilities and apply them to how i read scripture so far it seems to work
That being said when it comes to reading the bible perspective can play a major role in how i understand it. I see how many people have all kinds of views and beliefs many different opinions and understanding many different doctrines and theologies each one believing they alone hold the truth each one believing it was holy spirit lead.
Yet God is not the author of confusion he is the God of truth I ntoiced that each person seemed to go into their bibles with their own perspective their own views their own doctrines already set in stone and so therefore when they read the scriptures that is what they saw in the scriptures, this was a problem to me as it seemed to me that what if they were in the wrong about something but were to blind to see it due to the fact they already believed so firmly in their own views that they remained ignorant to the truth right in front of them?
So bot wanting to make that same mistake though it isn't always easy to do i try to read my bible or in my case listen due to my damaged eyes without any preset views or doctrines in my mind a clean slate so that i read the scriptures as pure and truth only no doctrine no interpretation no beleif system just the word of God as it is.
Another thing is that since i am a writer i know how the formula of words work. certain words are placed in certain places for a reason to mean certain things and depending on where they are placed and what words surround that word can change the meaning of that word entirely. it is like a song if you or a painting each note or image is placed in a certain area to be something and what surrounds it defines it each note every brust of pain is specific for a reason i make it a point to question why certain words that may mean something else are placed where they are what words are or sentences surround them and do they have an effect to the meaning of that word?
This leads me to the next part and that is to take the chapter as a whole first. just today i was in a debate with a user on another forum who when i asked for scriptural evidence for his theory gave a verse and highlighted a sentence in the verse that had to with his theory but when i looked up the chapter in which he pulled up the verse from and read the whole chapter first i saw that what the chapter was saying and what he was saying were two completely different things.
I told him this and how dangerous it was to cheryy pick verses like that and that you have to take scripture as a whole first then look for your theology he did not approve of my comment. but this goes along with what i said above the things that surrounded the verse he pulled brought the verse into perspective it also turned out that the particular word he was trying to use to prove his thology in the verse was placed in a particular order to mean something that was not what he was trying to make it seem based on two words that surrounded it.
Reading the bible is an art I am a writer and an artist as well so i try to use these abilities and apply them to how i read scripture so far it seems to work
