We have a problem, right off the bat, in claiming we only see what is written...… when Jesus makes a statement like "You have read" (or, "It is written") "but, I tell you...…….." And I have already mentioned a few of the many places every single one of us will agree that the Bible made statements that were never meant to be taken at face value. (The "eye of a needle" being just one)
They had small camels and big needles back in them days. well I remember some clown saying that on TV.
You are correct Willie.
I will say that the Bible was not written for just everyone, it was written so that the enemy could not understand the Spiritual gifts that it contains within, because they are not worthy and with the new age versions well they truly loose that spiritual gift, as they are trying to make such understood by everyone. but that's not what it was written for, as such looses it's salt one could say and it becomes bastardised.
I tried reading the Mormon book, I gave it a go but that really angered me and I would go into a rage and toss it on the floor, as it was a worldly book with man as it's author, as their was nothing truly of the Holy Spirit within it at all.
When I first tried to read the Bible I could not truly make heads or tails out of it, but I persisted and then bit by bit it was coming together in a way that no other book ever can do or come close to.
Who can pick up a book and read it a thousand times and still find something new or from another angle, you will never become bored reading the Bible, the more you study the more it calls you back for more.
You know I go to bed about 10.00 but how many times have I seen that it was 1.00 and thought only 15min had gone by and had to hit the hay only to jump right back into the Bible the next night really looking forward to it.