If I search the Bible to confirm whatever I've been taught or whatever I want it to say, it is easy to make it agree with me.
Sarcastic Extreme Examples:
I can justify these sins with Bible verses:
"I want a divorce" Deuteronomy 24:1 Moses permits divorce if my wife doesn't please me and I giver her papers.
"Money will solve all my problems" Ecc. 10:19
"I want to get drunk and party" Ecc. 10:19
" I want to sleep with prostitutes" Genesis 38: 15-16
"Life is meaningless, so just party" All of Ecclesiastes
"I am a god" John 10:34 Jesus repeats Psalms. (This is what the Church of Satan's core beliefs)
All of these verses make perfect sense to me now and don't have any contradiction in my mind, but you have to know, do and understand the entire Bible for them to make sense. Or a shortcut is knowing the Holy Spirit, Dying to yourself, then making your soul servant /slave to God's Holy Spirit that you will be baptized in. We still need to know and study the Bible but this helps a lot.
The Bible also has lots of contradictions if I look at it through my religion, or my ideas or my beliefs.
However it has no contradictions if I just read it and do what it says with NO preconceived ideas.
"Pork and Shellfish, gay sex, sex with animals are all described as an abomination" in Leviticus.
How do we decide what is still an abomination "disgusting" to us, yet other ones are not.
Specifically food: It is an abomination / disgusting for me to eat rats and vultures because of what they eat. Shellfish are bottom feeders and clean the waters and eat disgusting things. (watch a youtube video of a shellfish in disgusting water, and it cleans it).
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Is the Bible True?
For me, it became much more true, when I simply just did what it said. After I just legalistically followed the commandments then they made a lot more sense to me. Once they made sense, then I understood the spirit of the law much better and then I know when it is OK or not Ok to bend / break the commands/teachings/laws. Most of us today, just accept that we are constantly in sin breaking the laws and asking for forgiveness everyday. Serious?! Lazy?! These Teachings are meant to give us peace and a better life. Please just obey every law exactly how it is written. Once you are baptized in the Holy Spirit then you can discern.
The other thing that ties the entire Bible together for me is studying the feasts, they show ancient history, Jesus history, current time and future all tie together in God's big plan for this earth.
Flip your Bible open to almost any chapter with prophecy and you can look up historically when that prophecy already took place, or you can see it happening right now. Just read the headlines, watch the news. But you must do this through the eyes of a Jew in Israel. We are grafted in to those truths.
I realize this page is very weak, but after studying all the other pages, this page seems useless and the Bible seems obvious.
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