Mystical Bible

[MatthewG]

There are some things that we can agree on that are just unknowable when it comes to the bible.


However, is it true that we can mystically grab all of what we have today, and make it for us today, in the sense that all of it written to us? Or is that just mystical thinking?
While the bible is seen to be a great and wonderful gift, that happened to be written not "to" us, but "for" us, there seems to be a great line between, to and for. Those being written to in that day in age, and up to Acts 10, all dealt with the nation of Israel, and the promises of divorcement and its down fall.


Why is it that this mystical bible Idea, we are left to guess what is going on , and not see the picture more plainer, in exploring the time period in which the concern would be more concerning, compared to 2000 years later, where it seems that the world is improving compared to where it used to be, not to say that people can't blow up a country, or people take up armies and try to gain more territory or something? Or we could nuke our own selves, what is the greatest thing one should be worried about in general when it comes to being mystical with the bible?

Self-deception, if anything,.

 

[12question]

Are you referring to the truths of the 66 book bible or the 73 books of the Catholic bible or the 81 books of the Ethiopian bible?

 

[Windmillcharge]

is it true that we can mystically grab all of what we have today, and make it for us today, in the sense that all of it written to us? Or is that just mystical thinking?

No idea what you mean by " mystic ".
Certainlly we cannot just grab what we have and make it for us, that is nonsence.

Life is a gift from God, just as saving faith is a gift from God. So we don't have anything we can actually call ours.

That line of thinking is pagan and should not be used by Christians.

 

[Ronald Nolette]

There are some things that we can agree on that are just unknowable when it comes to the bible.


However, is it true that we can mystically grab all of what we have today, and make it for us today, in the sense that all of it written to us? Or is that just mystical thinking?
While the bible is seen to be a great and wonderful gift, that happened to be written not "to" us, but "for" us, there seems to be a great line between, to and for. Those being written to in that day in age, and up to Acts 10, all dealt with the nation of Israel, and the promises of divorcement and its down fall.


Why is it that this mystical bible Idea, we are left to guess what is going on , and not see the picture more plainer, in exploring the time period in which the concern would be more concerning, compared to 2000 years later, where it seems that the world is improving compared to where it used to be, not to say that people can't blow up a country, or people take up armies and try to gain more territory or something? Or we could nuke our own selves, what is the greatest thing one should be worried about in general when it comes to being mystical with the bible?

Self-deception, if anything,.

All Scripture is equally inspired by God, but not all Scripture is equally applicable. We are not under Jewish Law for we are the chu8rch. However we can learn things and apply things from the biblical past even though they do not literally apply to us.