We differ in our beliefs about the Bible. To me they are as imperfect as we should expect them to be.Everyone knows God in heaven didn't write the entire bible personally. I do believe the writers were inspired of God and honestly it might as well be as if God himself wrote it. God wrote the 10 commandments. I'd even be willing to go so far as to say that God himself wrote genesis chapter 1, and that Adam wrote chapter 2.
The only time peoples "understanding of God" changed throughout the bible is when new covenants were instituted and inspired by God to men. And from my reading through the OT there weren't any major changes to people's understanding of God, He is the ancient of days and he does not change. Jesus was God in the flesh I believe. And His teachings for everyone were perfect. He could even read peoples thoughts. So to me of course he was wildly different than anything people had heard of before.
The so called word of God was quoted many times by Jesus to affirm who He was. People didn't reject Him because they believed in the so called word. They rejected Him because they didn't believe in Him. They didn't believe He was the anointed one their so called word of God prophesied about. Their hearts were hard, they made an idol of their religion even if it was the word of God. When Moses climbed down the mountain the people crafted the golden calf literally to represent God and it infuriated Him. The Pharisees in essence were much worse because they crucified the Man! Jesus came and set up a new covenant. He brought teachings nobody has ever heard yes, but when has a new doctrine or teaching come to earth whereby God himself sets up a new covenant like in times past? It hasn't happened. It's not going to happen. We already know the future and that's to reign with Christ forever after all the evil has been cast into the furnace.
Fallible men don’t write infallible books. Religion has imperfect men making imperfect descisions. Holy men who were capable of killing the Son of God were capable of writing vastly exaggerated history about themselves as “God’s chosen people”. We know the earth is old and life evolved from primitive life forms. I believe that life was created and planted by celestial beings 550,000,000 years ago.
Jesus quoted from the true contents of scripture to the extent that his words were adiquatly recalled when the gospels were written.
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