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Read Gods Word in context!

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So, how do we know if we are reading the Bible properly? If whenever your reading the Bible and it bothers you and troubles you and sometimes even makes you angry, chances are your beginning to understand it. Hang in there with reading it because the Bible is filled with amazing blessings but to get to them we must travel through some muddy waters.

I guess I began wondering if there were other Christians raised in the church who one day realized decades later that they never really read the Bible . They have no clue what it says. They only know what someone else told them it says.
A funny thing happens when you read Gods Word as it was meant to be read. In context from beginning to end. Cover to cover. You soon discover that what you were told doesn't square with what it actually says.

This blog chronicles my journey from when my eyes began to open since my first time thru the Bible. I examine how so many passages of scripture get twisted to fit someone's agenda. I talk a lot about "context." Quite often I sound critical and judgmental. This cannot be avoided. My goal is to promote discernment. My goal is to encourage others to research what the read and listen to . So many believers have no idea why they believe what they do.
The main idea of this blog is context. Read Gods Word as a book. Not rocket science. It will take some time. It wont happen over night. Comparing what we "thought" the Bible says to what it "actually" says can be frustrating but the blessing of understanding Gods Word in context is worth the effort.
Acts 17:11b

I recently purchased a chronological Bible that I truly love and I think it could help those who struggle reading the Bible .
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This blog thing I started is aimed at what I believe to be the most difficult of audiences.
The ones I currently have in mind have absolutely no idea, no clue to see what's on the horizon.
The people I'm thinking of, as I post and the ones I'm most concerned over, have pretty good lives at the moment. Sure, things are tough but there making it. There lives are good, there attending some church. I guess I have churchy people in mind.
Whether they be middle aged as I am or a younger type, just getting started out in life.

These people have solid mindsets when it comes to many things.
Family, pop culture, politics, even God.

These are the ones I think of.
My question to them is, why do you believe what you do?

I asked my oldest daughter years ago, who strongly believes that sex before marriage is wrong, I asked her why she believes that.
Her reply was predictably sad.
She said it was us (mom and dad) that told er m
I pressed on by asking was there more to the reason.
She replied, the Bible says so.
I pressed on further and finally the best reasoning was she didn't wanna get pregnant.

You see, all those answers are good, but they have a shelf life.
Truth is, being exposed to christian thinking all her life while never reading God's Word in context, she really had no idea why she believed it. She just did.

Because I myself would come to God's Word late in life, my family would give more significance to church attendance than God's Word.
Trying to correct that is heart breaking and painful.
I know so many in similar conditions.

This blog is aimed at those who believe things just because they heard it somewhere, or there pastor told them.
If that's all a person has, when life's difficulties come along, that ain't much.
If people think they can discern this culture with church influence & church experience alone, without had having read God's Word in context, good luck cause it ain't happening.

Since what I'm saying here is not salvation related (or, just because one doesn't read Bible means there lost) todays church goer can ride on that.
But they're forgetting the generation behind them. Who will tell them?
Unless they think it'll be easier than my own attempts at such and from where I sit, challenging the next generation to read God's Word in context is nearly impossible.

It's a dangerous thing, trying to wake people up.
When Bible illiterate believers realize that they really don't know why they believe what they do, several things can happen.

They could slowly leave the church altogether, .
They could remain complacent and where there at.
They can dismiss this and find a home at 99 of any 100 churches and fit in perfectly ,

Or

They could actually read it (and I'll toss this in for good measure) and when they do, start a blog :-)

We live in a world where people will believe anything. We never check, we just discern things from understandings we don't even know why we have?
People don't research there church, there pastor, where he got his views, we don't research authors of books.
Yes, this takes time but in this day and age that's not difficult anymore. And that from a guy who spends most of the time on the road.

It's more than true that only the Holy Spirit can reveal any meaning from scripture and we say that most Christians know that but if that's true, then why do we need to use a modern day English version.
Do we really think wording it different gives understanding?
Some versions change "repent" to "change your life"

Do you think that helps understand what repent means, never mind, even if we could change our lives, it wouldn't save anyone anyway.
Commentaries also need discerning. I use them but discerning what commentary says as compared to what Bible actually says is a daily practice. Separating opinion from fact is something everyone needs to learn. I can't tell ya how much opinions from our pulpits are nowhere in Scripture.

So when you have had your fill of the Bible being preached, in a spirit of "application " , do yourself a favor and tryreadNit.

I'll add more to this later.