There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Bible! Nothing. The problem is cheap prada jackets with the people who misinterpret it. How many ways can we interpret the cheap prada jackets Bible? Well, to name a few: literally, historically, metaphorically, progressively (process theology), religiously, denominationally, systematically, and a combination of many of the above. While the Bible is sacred to me as it is the BOOKS that those of my faith have chosen to canonize (regardless of the manner in so doing), I come at it cheap prada jackets with my mind open, and my Spirit awakened. In so doing, I realize the cheap prada jackets flaws, errors, and various genres within which it is written: all of which has cheap prada jackets allowed it to continually come alive without having to defend stories and cheap prada jackets things that were not prose, but poetry; not fact but futuristic; not literal but lesson-filled. How about you?
Beyond being UNIQUE which we covered yesterday, the Bible is a WITNESS!
Can I get one? 
As John 20:21 says in my paraphrase words, The Bible written, the cheap prada jackets acts were recorded, the stories were told, the canon was so adopted, that cheap prada jackets we might believe that Jesus was the Son of God, and cheap prada jackets that by believing in him, and following Him, we might have cheap prada jackets an abundant life. It’s a witness to Jesus who became the Christ, and so much more.
It’s NOT a science book, nor a history book, nor much less a manual on ethics (though there’s some of all of that within it). Let’s use it cheap prada jackets rightly. And if we will let it, the Bible will move lead us into the cheap prada jackets sure ground of faith and out of the marshland of religious fantasy!
Unfortunately, I believe that Cardinal John Henry Newman was right when he wrote, “The Bible is a collection of ancient documents that is full of inaccuracy, incoherence and uncertainty, and cheap prada jackets it initiated an examination of the Biblical literature by scholars all over the cheap prada jackets world more radical and unsparing than cheap prada jackets has ever been applied to any other literature anywhere. And the cheap prada jackets results has been that it’s left the church with the embarrassing question of how to deal with this, its sacred book.”
Too many have been in denial of the findings.
Too many have concocted insane, nonsensical defenses- that aren’t.
Too many have said that one just needs to BELIEVE!
Too many have not cared and have refused to defend their beliefs.
But the cheap prada jackets truth is that those who find fault, errors, and non-literal stories, find an cheap prada jackets incredible WITNESS regardless! The Bible testifies as to how one man (Jesus, the Christ), could turn the cheap prada jackets world upside down, rewrite history, escape death, and witness a love the cheap prada jackets world had yet to WITNESS! It’s a WITNESS to cheap prada jackets the activities of God in relation to man, from several cultures, over many centuries, with on-going and cheap prada jackets never-ending relationship.
And it cheap prada jackets is left up to the church and to each individual to cheap prada jackets state and define what that WITNESS means and is saying. The Bible isn’t a cheap prada jackets work of doctrine, ethics, nor ecclesiology; but rather, the RAW material from cheap prada jackets which each of us must draw our own conclusions. We can cheap prada jackets do it within a denomination, a local assembly, a community of believers, or cheap prada jackets an extended family, but we can’t do it ALONE!
You can’t just pull off one of the cheap prada jackets pages the doctrine of the trinity, atonement, incarnation, or second coming. Most of those words aren’t even IN the cheap prada jackets Bible. Most of those concepts have been formulated by the intellectual pursuits and cheap prada jackets conclusions of MAN in the form of various CREEDS!
The Bible does not preach itself, but basically WITNESSES to cheap prada jackets the activities of God as seen in historical events and in the cheap prada jackets lives of mostly historical people (Adam not being one).
Tomorrow, we’ll look at the PROCESS of the Bible and then move on to other matters of the Bible.
Hang in there, but whatever you do, start to STUDY (not just reading) the Bible. There’s lots of help for anyone so needing.
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