Why is the Bible so misunderstood?
by 
xjimmyloudx
ANSWERS: 12
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bc odds are you are reading it from a version using archaic language that is almost 400 years old now ... if you really want to understand it, go to a local christian bookstore and ask for a modern day translation or just go to walmart and buy an NIV (new internation version)
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I don't think it can be....It's written to be interpreted and implemented into your everyday life...I think you can take it however you like.
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It's difficult to understand something you've never read.
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Some is old english. But mostly because people don't read it. They read a verse here and there. But not the whole thing to get it into context and see how it intertwines with the rest of the Bible.
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Because it is used as scripture by several major religions, which means that a large percentage of the world's population actually believe it.
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Because of its very own nature.
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LOTS and LOTS of antiquated words!
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Because it was written so very vaguely, and many concepts were culturally specific. And then; WHICH Bible are you referring to? Because many many books have been left out, in today's versions. http://www.thelostbooks.com/
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because there is no lable on the cover that says "fiction" .
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We don't live back in the times when those wordings were popular. Therefore they confuse the crap out of us today. I can't read more than a page of the Bible before I go cross eyed. lol
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this is why ; the bible contradictions; http://www.evilbible.com/Biblical%20Contradictions.htm
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Because it was written in ancient languages by ancient peoples with a different way of thinking and radically different categories of thought than we have today. (e.g., their idea of suspense is to give you a geneology with 6 names in it: you're suppose to realize that it's one generation short from fulfillment and 4 short of completion.) Consequently, the Bible can't just be read: it must be studied - for decades - along with the languages and cultures that produced it, and a good bit of literary criticism/analysis thrown in. Even then, according to the Rabbis, every passage can be read at 22 different levels.
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