Millions of christians would disgree with that statement Cut.

And yet they'd disagree among themselves about their own understanding of it.

The best thing someone can do if he or she wants to know about the Bible's nature is to study it personally, without bringing with him/her any preconceived ideas.

If you start reading it looking for contradictions, you will find "contradictions". If you approach it thinking it's subjective, you'll find "subjectivity".

Just give it a read. An honest, humble, openhearted read.



And if you need help understanding it, and you really want to, someone will offer you help.

And then there are those who twist the Bible's words to justify the wrong they are doing.

My Girlfriends dad spends no time with his family. He goes to work at 10 in the morning and doesn't come back till 1-2 in the morning.
He doesn't talk to his wife and they have no slept in the same room for years now.
He's as cheap as one can get. No heat, no air conditioning (only in extreme weather), no computer, no cable TV, no trash pick-up, etc.
His children get no money from him and his wife is not allowed to buy them presents because "he can't afford it".
(he has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, btw and makes plenty of money).
He spends his money on himself, taking all kinds of classes (diving, karate, etc.) and going on all kinds of vacations.

Yet he goes to church every Sunday, he's Protestant, btw, talks bad about Catholics (which is what I am) and then when he comes home from church he yells at his wife and children for spending too much money or leaving a light on or something.

I might also mention that he drives a 300E Mercedes AMG that goes for about $60-70,000.
His wife drives an Acura and his daughter didn't get a car till she was 18. And she was only allowed to drive it to work and school.

SOMEHOW he finds justification for all this in the Bible, and he takes it so far that he blames his failed marriage on his family, even though he's the one that's constantly gone out of the house.

Those kinda people are just a mystery to me.
I wonder what god will tell them when they walk to the gates of heaven all confident and proud.

And then there are those who twist the Bible's words to justify the wrong they are doing.

Ephesians 5:25-33 (King James Version)

25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

And by the way, isn't God supposed to be a forgiving entity? If so then we probably will all go to heaven. No one is perfect. We have all sinned somehow and many. Whether it is small or big. God won't forgive you if you commit murder, but will if you dont remember the Sabbath day or covet a wife? Or because you believe in Jesus, those will go away? WE might all go to heaven, but one thing is for sure...we will all either rot in a coffin or get burned to ashes.

Matthew 19:17
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Matthew 7:13-14 (New International Version)

The Narrow and Wide Gates

13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it

No, not only the ignorant ones.

Theologians are to spiritual things as psychologists are to love.

The coldness of their approach to the subject negates the effect of it.