Why are there so many possible interpretations of the Bible? Would the Bible be of any value if there was only one possible interpretation?

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I was raised southern Baptist when I was young. As I got older I learned that the OT is the Jewish bible.
And the NT is the Christian bible. So how can anyone who’s not Jewish understand the OT? I was taught to take the bible at face value I know a lot of people who do not they just see it as a guide book of sorts.
I don’t think people could ever agree to the bible as one interpretation.

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Our limited capacity to comprehend the input from our physical senses would, I believe, retstrict the possibility of any single account, wether a single line, paragraph, chapter or book, to the exact same interpretation of every reader. As long as we are individuals with varied experiences and histories from which to form opinions and judgements, we will witness and report a different observation, of any event, from every other witness of the same event.

Holy Scriptures, at their introduction, were never intended to be read by the masses, who were largely illeterate anyhow. Followers were expected to rely on Holy Men, who would take the liberty of changing their interpretation to suit their own agenda, for Truth and direction.

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Don

I agree with Don that we intrepret things (not just the bible) to our own understanding. Our own understanding depends much on what we have expereinced, learned, heared and seen in the past.

The less we use memory to intrepret what comes to our attention, the purer the message. Then we receive with the heart instead of our mind.

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I agree with Don. We intrepret things (not just the bible) to our own understanding. Our own understanding depends much on what we have expereinced, learned, heared and seen in the past.

The less we use memory to intrepret what comes to our attention, the purer the message. We then receive with the heart and by pass the mind.

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Thank you for the reiteration Viv. LOL

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Don

I meant to put a period behind "Don" : ) But I wanted to make sure everyone knows that my post is very important and therefore posted it two times LOL

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The Bible must be written as it is. If not, the associative literal mind would take possession of its meaning and the deeper mind would be prevented from receiving it. As it is, the associative mind is confused and during that confusion the meaning can bypass the literal mind and resonate where intended.

Once a person stops insisting on secularizing the N T for example, a profound common sense can be experienced.

Why are there so many possible interpretations of the Bible? Would the Bible be of any value if there was only one possible interpretation?----------

The Bible has one big interpretation and many small ones. If you are in a car speeding 100 miles an hour , are you going 100 miles an hour ,,, it depends on how you look at it .

There are pictures that when you stare at them another picture is seen super-imposing over it sort of and you can only see it when you sort of distort the way you look at it and then you see it but some , no matter how hard they try, they can only see the one picture but both are there and some know it .

The Bible is very much more than what the best Bible scholar knows of it . The scholar cannot see the hidden picture there in the Bible , yet it is staring us right in the face and one day it will be known to all ,the whole Bible.

Why are there so many possible interpretations of the Bible? Would the Bible be of any value if there was only one possible interpretation?-----------

If the True and complete Bible were to be known it would change the world and l want to say it will end the world but too many will not understand my words that the whole Bible ,as it was , would have the information that today would develope into mass destruction in an unusual concept of reality .

The Bible was written and say put together to stop another uprising by the "magical" Healers who followed Jesus and who by about four hundred years after Jesus's death the followers had grown to many and they had to be stopped so the Police , whatever , confiscated the Healing scrolls and secrets of Jesus's Healings from the Jesus followers and they were either destroyed or hidden, still today .
Those scrolls were left out of the records of Jesus's Healings and only what we see now of Jesus Healings is presented in the Bible .

At about 400 AD the Bible was put together and when the scrolls showed the Truth of how Jesus Healed and they knew that this information must be kept out and it was .The Jesus followers then continued but with out the sacred Jesus Healing Secrets .

So the Bible in itself is good but what was left out was never supposed to be in , in the first place .