And I suppose you have the one specific combination of numbers in a preassigned order that will unlock the bible? And therefore everyone who disagrees with you is absolutely wrong. Only you have found the key. Only you and the people who believe exactly like you have the ultimate truth. Everyone else is misinformed, misguided, or does not listen to the Holy Spirit, because if they did, they would come to realize that only what you believe is the truth, IS actually the truth.
Does that about wrap it up?
You know.. The Pharisees thought exactly like you do. Even to the point that when their own Messiah came around, but did not have the same interpretation that they did, they rebuked Jesus for eating and drinking with sinners and tax collectors. I often wonder how having that same mentality worked out for them.
Joshua David
What your saying is that there is nobody whom God uses to interpret his word the Bible, that God is incapable of having an arrangement whereby his word can be unlocked with only one right interpretation, that the "truth" cannot be found. How many different keys will unlock your vehicle ? How many different keys will unlock your front door ? If a duplicate key is made, but is cut improperly, even slightly, will it unlock either your car or the front door ? Try and see if it will not jam in the lock cylinder (unless it excessivley worn). A
precision lock cylinder is mated to only
one key. No other key with a different cut will fit. Otherwise, anyone can use any key and steal your car or open the door to your home and take what they want.
Or if it is a combination lock, only
one combination of numbers will unlock it. Just try changing the numbers and sequence and see if it will open. It won't. That is why bank's vaults are impossible to open unless the exact set of numbers and sequence is followed each and every time. In trying to go to a secure website, use of an incorrect password and user name keeps unwanted people out, such as your banking website.
If the Bible had any variety of interpretations, would that not make God as someone incoherent, confused. If you were talking to someone, and what they said was ambiguous, how could you make sense of what they said ? The apostle Paul wrote that God's "invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable."(Rom 1:20) Anyone can readily see that the universe is orderly and precise, so precise that any space flights are set according to the movement of the heavenly bodies. As Paul said that "God is [a God],
not of disorder, but of peace."(1 Cor 14:33)
Thus, everything that God does is exact, as James wrote, that "with him there is
not a variation of the turning of the shadow."(James 1:17) God does not change. He is clear-cut. Should his word the Bible be any different ? If a doctor gave ambiguous instructions regarding a patient, what might that lead to ? Perhaps death. His instructions has to be precise or else the patient might suffer for the doctor's lack of clear direction. Who wants a doctor that is "lost", that changes at random or is incoherent when dealing with a patient ? Just by looking at God's creative handiwork shows precision, exactness, not variance.
Initially, God gave his laws only to the nation of Israel, including all the detailed prophecies, such as Isaiah 53 regarding Jesus. In fact, over 350 specific prophecies were given by God to identify Jesus as the Messiah. Only through the nation of Israel and no other nation was God's word given.(Ps 147:19, 20) He has always used only a specific channel that he has selected to dispense his word and it's meaning. All others are blocked from understanding it. Proverbs 25:2 says: "The glory of God is the keeping of a matter secret, and the glory of kings is the searching through a matter."
Jesus identified that channel for spiritual food for his people as the "faithful and discreet slave", that would provide "food at the proper time."(Matt 24:45) These are
Jesus words, not mind. It is because that many feel that no one is God's choice as his channel for distributing spiritual food that there is so many different viewpoints or interpretations. As Isaiah 60:2 says, that "
darkness itself will cover the earth, and thick gloom the national groups; but
upon you Jehovah will shine forth, and upon you his own glory will be seen." The vast majority of mankind is in "darkness", though professing to be Christian. Only those who listen to Jehovah are blessed with understanding the Bible.
Isaiah 2:2-4 brings out that the distribution of
accurate knowledge of the Bible in these "final part of the days" is found at the "mountain of the house of Jehovah....and to it all the nations must stream." It then says that "many peoples will certainly go and say: ' Come, you people, and let us
go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will
instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.' For out Zion law will go forth, and the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem." What will Jehovah God then do ? "And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and
set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore."
Jerusalem here is symbolic, for literal Jerusalem is not whom Jehovah is using, for the Jews murdered his Son (1 Thess 2:14, 15) and the Jews have far from beaten "their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears", being one of the most militarized nations on the earth. Thus, they have been "abandoned" to themselves by God.(Matt 23:37-39)
The "mountain of the house of Jehovah" is the one and only arrangement God has put into place to instruct his people. In the first century, there was only one channel for spiritual food, through the apostles and older men in Jerusalem. When the issue of circumcision arose, each congregation did
not decide independently but was decided by the body of older men and apostles, that came to only one conclusion or interpretation.(Acts 15) Has God changed today ? The answer is no. One organization to dispense his "meat in due season"(Matt 24:45,
King James Bible), with only one interpretation, just as it was in the first century and before. Otherwise, "the Christ exists divided."(1 Cor 1:13)