As a Christian I do not follow the entire Bible. Only Jesus.

[IamRedeemed]

No doubt! Good job!

I guess that, for me, it's still God's Word, even if people misuse it. If I am not to attribute it to God, as the source, merely because some people are stupid or evil, I would be prohibited from affirming what the Bible is.

That's too much of a correction. There's so much politically correct newspeak in our lives already that I don't want to apply that to the Bible, too. Next, it will be "the reputedly supernaturally-oriented transcript" lest anyone be offended to hear that God gave us his revelation.

 

[HumbleUnderdog]

Some ppl on here define God's word hyper-literally; to mean God's verbal word. Others define it as God's "text".

I define "God's Word" as His message through text. It's sort of a pun, where "word" means "message" as well as "text", but combined. It's also bears witness of God's Word, the Word that became flesh. I don't see any danger or abuse in this. I think it's quite clear that God's word was spoken through ppl and on to text, spoken through His Word, and was witnessed to others through words, whether verbally, or textually. "God's Word" is a general definition, involving pun. It's true that God's Word became flesh. It's true that God's word can be spoken verbally. And it's true that the Word's words and the Father's verbal or unverbal words have been trasmitted to words on paper (papyrus).

That being said, God can give us His "word" (message) through creation. In creation, He is telling us "I am a very very very intelligent designer."

When Moses brought the ppl out of Israel, this was God telling me indirectly "when you are a slave to sin, I well send a saviour to free you and bring into my Kingdom."

 

[holyrokker]

Hebrew 1:1-2

In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.

 

[RuthD]

I do not follow everything that is written in the Bible. I consider myself Christian. I only do something is Jesus said to do it.

My own "personal religion" is very small compared to most other forms of Christianity. I don't have any beliefs of what heaven or hell is like, what god "looks like" (if he does "look like" something), or stuff like that.

My entire religion is just a large set of laws. A large set of "do's" and "do not's". If Jesus said do it, do it. If Jesus said do not do it, do not do it.

However, I know the Bible does not contain everything Jesus ever said. And of course, there are some problems in life that Jesus did not tell us how to solve (Like what do we do if someone has a gun and is about to shoot us?). Still, I look to the Bible to learn anything about Jesus and his teachings that I possibly can. Everything else is up to my own personal morality to try and figure out.

for example, Jesus was never asked the question "What do you do if a man is about to kill you?". Jesus probably would have said, "It is ok to kill a man only if it is a last resort to stop him from killing you. That is the basic form of self defense. You have a right to defend yourself".

But, alas, Jesus was never asked that question (thankfully so). So really, that is up to interpretation, in my religion anyway, for me to figure out if it is OK or NOT OK to kill in Self Defense as a last resort becuase Jesus never directly said so therefore "you should never, ever, kill someone" is not a clear-cut law in my religion.

However, on the other hand, Jesus was asked the question "What do you do if someone is beating you up" and Jesus said "Turn the other cheek". So I do follow his teachings on that.


From what I can see, Jesus is pretty much perfect in his teachings. Jesus never told any of his followers to kill (unlike Muhammad, the muslim prophet, I have read a lot of the holy book of Islam and Muhammad told people to kill non-believers for no reason).



Am I wrong to follow Jesus this way? Should I follow the entire bible? Should I follow religious authorities? From what I remember, old laws before Jesus said that a woman should be stoned to death for committing adultery, and Jesus said "no, do not stone her to death, thou amongst you who is without sin my cast the first stone". So old mosaic laws of stoning women to death and Jesus' law contradict eachother. Things like that is why I decided to follow only Jesus, and not the entire bible.

Am I wrong about this?

I feel the same way. Jesus is the one!