It does not matter which version of bible you used. Your interpretation of bible will depend on your own past education and experience, how you learn the meaning of the word "hate", "love", "father", "mother", "family", "life", "dead", "morality", .......etc. A person brought up in a conservative family environment, will then have one set of idea about what the bible is telling him. His understanding of bible passages is always attributed to "holy spirit" guiding him. Actually, this holy spirit, is made up of all his experience in life from the time the sperm met the egg. Since no two man have the same beginning (identical twin is the closest as to be starting from being the same), and subsequesnt life experience is never the same, no two persons can have the same interpretation on the same sentence or word in the bible.
Most of the time, Christians are seeking comfort in the bible since the faith required them to do so, believe in the bible. So when they encountered a part of the bible that is contrary to their comfort zone, they simply either close their mind on that, or try to find an alternate way to become comfortable with that part of the bible. Hence a lot of effort to try to explain away the errant part of the bible, and the part that teaches goodness need no further changing, so is left intact, so that the next reading will bring more comfort. Make sense?
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06-09-2005, 09:43 PM
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