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paradox3 said:
The Bible contradicts itself all over the place.
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Just going to clarify what is said here -----

This is not so ---that is your opinion ------with the right lens and doing some research within the Scripture itself you can see that there are no contradictions in Scripture ---God doesn't make mistakes ----He gave us His Book to understand ===not to confuse us by and through contradictions ---- Scripture says it is God Breathed ---and that God is Not the author of Confusion nor would He contradict His own Word ---Who is Jesus ---who is God

From Strong's Concordance---Greek word for -----God Breathed

The singular (anarthrous) use of 3956 /pás ("all") underlines that each part of speech (every inflected word-form, "reflex") used in the Bible is God-breathed, i.e. inscripturated (written) under divine inspiration.


Our Human mind can cause us to assume there are contradictions in Scripture

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People also ask
Where does confusion come from biblically?

Confusion may be caused by lack of knowledge of the truth of God' Word, and an inability to hear God's voice and know His will.


Interesting Explanation on so called Contradictions in Scripture ----

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Does the Bible contain errors, contradictions, or discrepancies? Does the Bible contradict itself?
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Does the Bible contain errors, contradictions, or discrepancies?​

 
Jesus teaches that couples must enter marriage with the determination and expectation that the union is permanent.
When Pharisees point out Moses' law that a man can divorce his wife for anything "objectionable" (Deut. 24:1-4), Jesus replies, "Because of your hardness of heart, he wrote this commandment for you (Mark 10:5)." In other words, the patriarchal sense of entitlement in Moses' day culturally closed their minds to what God expected from a marriage commitment. This is one of many examples of the need to read OT laws through the lens of progressive revelation.
 
Apparently there are people that read every word of the fine print you have to agree to before accessing a new product or service too. I think I tried once and couldn't resist racing ahead to the interesting bits. I wish I still had my Dad's "annotated" version. Elijah and the mocking kids for example. He wrote in the margin, "Call me Baldy will ya?" I'll show you how God deals with the likes of you!"
 
ninj said:
Apparently there are people that read every word of the fine print you have to agree to before accessing a new product or service too. I think I tried once and couldn't resist racing ahead to the interesting bits. I wish I still had my Dad's "annotated" version. Elijah and the mocking kids for example. He wrote in the margin, "Call me Baldy will ya?" I'll show you how God deals with the likes of you!"
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Awesome shadows on the Wahl ...
 
A.J. Jacobs read the Bible cover to cover as preparation for The Year of Living Biblically. He planned to follow all the biblical rules for a year and then write a book about it.

He was specifically looking for all the rules and he read the Bible five hours a day for four months.
 
ninj said:
Apparently there are people that read every word of the fine print you have to agree to before accessing a new product or service too. I think I tried once and couldn't resist racing ahead to the interesting bits. I wish I still had my Dad's "annotated" version. Elijah and the mocking kids for example. He wrote in the margin, "Call me Baldy will ya?" I'll show you how God deals with the likes of you!"
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Which justifies the cruelty, and makes it sound humorous.
The trouble with an annotated bible is it may contain scholarly commentary. However that commentary is merely their opinion. You should always read it for yourself and form you own opinion even if it feels mundane. No matter how good it appears, you could end up follow someones agenda like Unsafes or Mystics and not your own.
 
I have an NIV study Bible with extensive footnotes. There is some excellent information included but there are times I pick up a certain slant to the comments.
 
paradox3 said:
A.J. Jacobs read the Bible cover to cover as preparation for The Year of Living Biblically. He planned to follow all the biblical rules for a year and then write a book about it.

He was specifically looking for all the rules and he read the Bible five hours a day for four months.
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Correction. Four weeks. Five hours a day for four weeks.
 
Pavlos Maros said:
Which justifies the cruelty, and makes it sound humorous.
The trouble with an annotated bible is it may contain scholarly commentary. However that commentary is merely their opinion. You should always read it for yourself and form you own opinion even if it feels mundane. No matter how good it appears, you could end up follow someones agenda like Unsafes or Mystics and not your own.
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Sounds like you may have missed the sarcasm. My Dad was an atheist who was traumatized as a child by the catholic church. His notes were pure sarcasm. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
 
ninj said:
Sounds like you may have missed the sarcasm. My Dad was an atheist who was traumatized as a child by the catholic church. His notes were pure sarcasm. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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Is sarcasm and Satyrs well read into as many cannot visualize them?
 
My favorite bible to read in hard copy is the NET. I have it in large print. This edition doesn't have all the study notes but they can easily be found on-line.

Some reviews say that it has a more evangelical bent than the NRSVue. I haven't noticed this. I find it quite similar to the NRSVue but with more straightforward language.

Over the past few years, I have spent a fair amount of time reading and discussing the Gospels, particularly the synoptics. There would certainly be value in returning to John and reading the rest of the NT.

However I find myself most interested in where Jesus came from right now. I plan to read the Pentateuch for a start. I have been warned that parts of it are deadly reading.
 
Is word carried with a bias? If it weren't would you have bought it up? Its like ole hack ... but with additional meaning adding to the general messy understanding ... accept it as accrued ... a type of collection!

Is psyche collective or disbarred by mortal limitations ... kind 've out there ... as mortals despise mental phenomenon ... look what they did to the mysteries light ... GEEZ ... what can I add ... the myth starts with the triad of knowledge is evil ... so we were initiated on the wrong foot? A wee booty ... reproductive organ? It may play a sad melody ... noh Armani ... dais tude ... similar to de borah ... the item to ah void as nothing like it? D' euchi/ouchy?

Unraveling a payen (once declared as pagan as the "y" and the "g" are dark and silent ... mostly ... then there is this Eris ,,, eruption? Ven Tae ... you can't say it when still in nere ... maybe NARD! Resin eighting ...

Remember that mortals cannot remember everything at once ... thus latent delaying ... i.e. following the oughtasstrungout ... core dead ... sub atomic physician! Heavy stuff that golden opportunity ... tole'arn ... goes on unconsciously or prescient! Some say initiated in darker things ... B' still now ... smoke, or steam abihð to cool down in sweat lodge or sauna ... study your letter m'n ... iconix?
 
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I have read the bible through many times. I think it is important.
If your important other had to leave you for a long time, and the only way they had of communicating with you was to write, you wouldn’t leave their letters unread on the table. You would read every word, multiple times.

I haven’t read end to end, in maybe five years, and just started again a few mornings ago.

Here is how to do it!

Set aside at least 30 minutes with your coffee first thing in the morning. Write a little note to God, asking that he would reveal himself to you today. Not just for the next 30 minutes, but today.

Stick the note on the cover of your selected translation that you are going to conquer. Get out your phone and open the bible gateway app. Select audio bible, select the translation, and select the reader. Start at Genesis 1:1, hit play and read along.

I am doing NIV, Max McLean. You can stop or pause wherever you want. You can close the app, and when you open it again, it remembers where you were.

Max is a voice actor and can really bring you into it. Plus on those first big books, he will drag you all the way through the parts that seem pretty monotonous and you wonder why they are there. Just remember, it is only a 30 minute commitment.

I find the offerings of the 12 tribes, repeated 12 times, and instructions on building the tent of meeting hardest to get through, but Max will pull you through!

The OT is about 75 hours and the NT about 25.

Hope you are all doing well. I see George is gone.

Pick up your bibles, get some oil in your lamps. The time is at hand.
 
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