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RE: MODERN = GOOD, OLD = BAD
How would know? The Bible was not written in English. You are taking things out of context like Disney did to Star Wars.
How would know? The Bible was not written in English. You are taking things out of context like Disney did to Star Wars.
I see. Are you suggesting that you can't be a Christian unless you know ancient Hebrew and Aramaic and Greek?
Reading the translations is not sufficient?
Grace Through Faith
A person becomes a Christian by saying to God, "I'm not perfect. I'm not immortal. I'm just a human. Help me. Save me. Give me a new heart." Ephesians 2:8-9 talks about that. Two main components to salvation, soteriology, to being saved. First, grace. Second, faith. A Christian does not work to become saved. You get saved and you do good works. These are two different things.
Definitions
What does it mean to be a Christian? Does the Bible define what it means to be a Christian? The answer is that the Bible talks about salvation and about fellowship. Now, these two things are conflated. But these two things are not the same thing. But many people confuse the one for the other. So, we can talk about what it means to be saved. That is one thing. And we can talk about how a person can live a better life which might apply to Christians. But living a better life applies to non-Christians as well. So, the Bible has some good advice for all people regardless of if they are Christians or not. The Bible has proverbs, wisdom, eternal principles.
Understanding The Bible
The better you understand the Bible, the better you can understand the advice inside of it. So, it is better to understand world history. It is good to read other writings from those times. Because there are cultural, historical, etc, gaps between us and those people from those places from those times to some extent. So, many things in the Bible were not really written to us, to people now. The Bible was written a long time ago to people of those times. Yes, some argue that the Bible can be for us. But not to us.