The Bible is a 2 / 3 / 4 thousand year old document written for...

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    The Bible is a 2 / 3 / 4 thousand year old document written for the people of its age. When it 'speaks' or rather when people try to interpret its meaning they must understand that it is a spiritual work trying to express pure abstraction, that is God, the nature of Jesus and the other Teachers and the human spiritual component. These are things that can not be put into words, but certain states of understanding can be expressed to help us react appropriately to these things we can't understand.

    God plans things only if He Himself is not eternal. If He is eternal and all-knowing then there is no need to contemplate anything when all is known at all times, therefore no planning is needed for God.

    The Bible can't be explained by the Bible because an explanation is limited by what the reader thinks he understands, so it because a circular debate.

    The NT Bible is Jesus centric, because it's about Jesus, you get that, right. If you read the NT you read about Jesus. If you read the Hindu or Buddhist or other scriptures you read about their Prophet in a similar light to Jesus.

    The many Bible Prophets were a lead in to the being who will return with the spiritual qualities of Jesus. That's why the Jews are still waiting for the Messiah. Most of the prophecies in the OT that Christians think are pointing towards Christ are in fact aimed at the figure who returns and is Christ like. This being will usher in the first global religion. Christianity is a regional religion.
 
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