What is the bible?

I think we may be in agreement on the "contradiction" issue. I think I am looking at it one way and you are looking at it another way, but we both agree somewhat on the issue. There are definitely physical language contradictions in the Bible, but there are no untruths. Do you agree with that assessment?

If we deem there are untruths, then why should we read it? If we deem there are untruths, who decides which ones? Then the Bible can become our own philosophy, with us picking and choosing those things we deem are true and those things we deem are not. Many religions have their foundations built on this premise. You can't just read part of the Bible and pick and choose which part to believe and which part not to believe. This then becomes religion or philosophy. The Bible has to be taken as a whole. You also have to remember that "Yahweh Is love" and Elohim is perfect in all His ways, including the writing of His Bible by men and women He chose.

One big problem is that people do not know the Tenach and the New Testament fully and judge them from the miniscule amount they think they know or what they have heard, instead of searching it out for themselves in the scriptures. Also, the Bible absolutely cannot be understood with just the mind of man and its intelligence. One must have the Spirit of Yahweh in him to understand it, otherwise it is being understood with man's mind only and it was not written by man's mind. It was written by Elohim's mind, who got man to transcribe it for Him. So when man speaks against the Bible saying it has mistakes in it because it was just written by man, he does not understand the ways of God very well and is only looking at it from a humanistic point of view.

It is true there are many seeming contradictions and perhaps seeming untruths in the Bible. Is God so stupid or un-powerful or un-omnipotent that He cannot influence men to write Him a perfect book? If we think so, then we do not think much of God and put a whole lot of stock in humanity and all its flaws. (Jeremiah said: The heart [mind] of man is desperately wicked above all things...). Those who believe God is so weak and incapable also believe God had to have "help" to create the universe, that He could not possibly just speak a word and have it come into being, out of thin nothingness, but He had to have a natural process of millions of years to do it. Man's mind who has only observed his minute dimensions of parameter and number, is so bold as to postulate that God must do it this way, because that is what is present in man's world and surly God cannot operate outside what we see, hear, taste, feel or think. All else to the natural man is just science fiction and should be on Star Trek. Speaking of the natural man: See I Corinthians 2---this pretty much explains what I just said in much better terms, mainly starting in vs. 7-16: "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. Which none of the princes of this world knew {and still don't - examples: the pope, PhD evolutionists, great men and women of human intelligence and power, etc.} for had they known it they would not have crucified the Yahushua of glory {today they still crucify Him by denying Him and His creation and nullifying his importance and power}. But it is written, eye has not seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart {mind} of man, the things which Elohim has prepared for them that love Him. {now usually people stop here with this verse to prove that we don't know yet, but we will know someday, but continue and you are shown a revelation, if you can hear it}. But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him {the bible's definition of death is "the body without the spirit is death". So you see this mystery? Now you know what element in the human body is the element that causes life. It is the spirit of man in him. When man dies man's spirit leaves to go to paradise, on either the good side or the bad side; it is separated by a great chasm.} even so the things of Elohim know no man, but the Spirit of Elohim {i.e., only the Spirit of Yahweh knows the things of Yahweh. The spirit of man knows only the things of man and has no idea about the things of Elohim.} Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of Yahweh; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of Yahweh. {i.e., we absolutely cannot understand this bible apart from being given the spirit of Elohim. Initial salvation is the mechanism of Elohim's Spirit joining with man's spirit, so that we actually and literally, become a NEW CREATION, hence the saying we are born again, the old man has died and the new man has revived. This is what it is talking about.} Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches {man's wisdom is found in the university juggernauts} but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of Yahweh; for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. {hence, we have the reason why men of great intelligence literally cannot and do not have any capacity whatsoever to be able to understand the things of Elohim, because they do not have the Spirit of Elohim in them, but only the spirit of man} But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who has known the mind of Yahweh, that he may instruct Him? But we HAVE the mind of Yahushua Ha Mashiah. {if we are saved we do. If we are not, we don't.

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