How has CF helped you understand the Bible?

[Andyman_1970]

I was reading the book “Jewish Spirituality, a brief introduction for Christians” by Lawrence Kushner when I came across an interesting thought in the chapter on the Torah.

“Because we each hear the words of Torah in a unique way, Jews routinely argue about their meaning [sound familiar]. When Jews disagree or agree about the meaning of Torah, they are actually helping one another to become better Jews.”

“In Hebrew this argument is called a l’shaym shamayim : and argument for the sake of heaven or an argument for God’s sake.”

I though about this over the weekend while I was reading this book, and I thought how posting on CF (and the resulting debates I have gotten into) has helped me in some of the things I understand about the Bible.

So I thought I would start a thread (fellowship in nature) about how CF has helped people in their understanding of the Bible. I sure don’t want this to turn into a debate thread, just some highlights of things you’ve learned.

I’ll start, here are some issues that after being in several discussion on CF I have a better understanding of:

Baptismal regeneration

Tithing

Eternal security

The “New” Covenant​

 

[SumTinWong]

What should and should not be included in the Bible would be at the top of the list.