It is not like I don't care about people. I am also sorry you felt insulted, but you really shouldn't take it personal at all. I think all people want to see scripture the way they like, and usually want to make it say, what they want it to say. I believe we all tend to do this. So, i am just pointing it out. It may seem, i am saying this to you, but my intention is to take this opportunity and point out a general mistake we all may do, including myself. When i read Scriptures, I always, ask myself, am I understanding it the way I want it to mean, or is this really what it says?
Thank you. Yes, I think it is human nature to see it through our eyes. I don't see that as wrong, though. If god is speaking through people born less than 2,000 years ago and you guys trust them, I honestly don't see the difference in people today. I don't know what time period people stop trusting the divinity of people's words. Probably after the Church started going downhill? Or people started doubting the original Church and trying to go back to Jewish roots when the Bible isn't all Jewish but Roman too?
Outside of my christian experiences, Buddhist do see from their perspective. The Buddha teaches that to be "like him" or like him in Mind, depending on the sect, is investigating (no pun) the teacher. So, basically, you're always seeing if your understanding comes from other people and things (forms of attachment) or do they come from yourself-your Buddha nature. So it's all self-interpretation.
Christianity, I speak from my experiences with god/christ and through christ, that authority, I interpret the bible through how he spoke through me through his body rather than words in a book. So we see differently but I wouldn't say (my words) in general that I'm interpreting it wrong, just my christ-experience came from the body-his people-the Word rather than words and study. I like them both but the words point to the Word not the other way around. Hebrew scriptures point to god not the other way around.
Also, it is not like i don't care about people, or their opinion. It is that, if we are talking about the beliefs or teachings of a particular Religion(e.g. Christianity), it is not about anybody's opinion anymore. It is about the Book of the Religion, when its teachings are described.
Eh. The bible always talks about the body, the people. I honestly don't understand how a book has more authority than the person with whom it was about. Even more so, I don't see how the book is an authority when christ saved people for people to be in service to him through the body when more than a few are present.
Basically, I'm being ironic. I'm using the bible to say the bible isn't an intermediary to lead one to god. Unfortunately, I can't use the body's experiences.
Long story short, I understand through experience and the body of his people. I learn about him in a book. He works through me through the people. So I put trust in the people.
I mean, I haven't seen any verse that christ pointed to scripture
for the purpose of scripture pointing to itself. Hebrew scripture points to god. So, is there scripture before Hebrew scripture that points to itself as the intermediary to god rather than Christ?
