With this thread I hope to bring light and clarity to an issue that few ever consider as a problem..that is..how by adding in our own understanding (without a further thought about it) we can invert the meaning of the bible from being truth into becoming a lie.
I am not speaking of a willful blindness that people engage in to justify themselves through a vain religious belief system. Surely, these will pipe in to justify an incorrect notion....for their own advantage. No, I'm not writing to these. I'm writing to they who could not realize how a simple deviation in the understanding of a biblical text could spoil even the innocence of a seeking heart. We must factor in, not just the inaccuracies of a bible translation...but also the influence of "the power of the air" that seeks to confound seekers of God away from their desired objective which is according to the truth.
So what I'm saying is that there is far more to the verses I intend to list than meets the human eye...or the human understanding.
Jesus Christ is BOTH the cornerstone of the truth and the stumbling block away from the truth. It all depends on the way we take it...how and why we believe what we do. It is the way we believe...the power behind what we do that either wins the day...or confuses and obscures the truth so that we live or die in the war between the truth and the lie.
When we read the bible it cannot be through the lens of self...a seeking for personal benefit. Actually we must read with the idea of glorifying God...not self.
With these things in mind I wish to proceed with a verse that would seem to back up a false way of seeing things...when so many other verses say just the opposite. Of course a lie gets way more traction than even a great weight of truth. Why? It is because our carnal minds tend to gravitate to that which pleases it. The carnal mind also has an uncanny ability to ignore truth and even logic if it must...in order to hold on to a sense of security...no matter how dishonestly that idea was concocted in. It is the weakness of the flesh.
The bible is calling us OUT from that frame of mind and into the truth. But few will be so honest as to question their own motives for believing what they do.
I am not speaking of a willful blindness that people engage in to justify themselves through a vain religious belief system. Surely, these will pipe in to justify an incorrect notion....for their own advantage. No, I'm not writing to these. I'm writing to they who could not realize how a simple deviation in the understanding of a biblical text could spoil even the innocence of a seeking heart. We must factor in, not just the inaccuracies of a bible translation...but also the influence of "the power of the air" that seeks to confound seekers of God away from their desired objective which is according to the truth.
So what I'm saying is that there is far more to the verses I intend to list than meets the human eye...or the human understanding.
Jesus Christ is BOTH the cornerstone of the truth and the stumbling block away from the truth. It all depends on the way we take it...how and why we believe what we do. It is the way we believe...the power behind what we do that either wins the day...or confuses and obscures the truth so that we live or die in the war between the truth and the lie.
When we read the bible it cannot be through the lens of self...a seeking for personal benefit. Actually we must read with the idea of glorifying God...not self.
With these things in mind I wish to proceed with a verse that would seem to back up a false way of seeing things...when so many other verses say just the opposite. Of course a lie gets way more traction than even a great weight of truth. Why? It is because our carnal minds tend to gravitate to that which pleases it. The carnal mind also has an uncanny ability to ignore truth and even logic if it must...in order to hold on to a sense of security...no matter how dishonestly that idea was concocted in. It is the weakness of the flesh.
The bible is calling us OUT from that frame of mind and into the truth. But few will be so honest as to question their own motives for believing what they do.
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