I've read the whole thing more times than I can count. If you believe that the book is every word true (which is a self-reference, written by people) then you can't dig deeper. If you do allow yourself to dig deeper however, you find a much larger understanding.
If you look into such things as how we got the books of the bible we have, who exactly created and/or determined the dogma we got (their affiliations, social status, how they benefited, etc.), how it was pushed on the public (by penalty of death, by Roman law), who wrote the OT (an aristocratic priest class of Jews, the same group that runs the world today behind the scenes) and when (post Babylon, where they incorporated money magic and priest magic into their new works, changing the torah and supplementing it with new laws and stories), what motives they had (solidify power, take from the public, control beliefs), external archeological evidence (El was the Canaanite name for the Creator, Yahweh was his son (according to older versions of the bible)), genetic data, translation arguments and script comparisons (you think the bible you have reads as original?), why other gospels were removed, even though there is evidence that some of them were written before the four we got, just to name a few of many discrepancies. you will find a very different appreciation for the teachings of Jesus.
The very best way to tell a lie is to remove context.
Open the Bible. Read it. That's my view.
Jesus said that unless you repent, you will perish.
I've read the whole thing more times than I can count. If you believe that the book is every word true (which is a self-reference, written by people) then you can't dig deeper. If you do allow yourself to dig deeper however, you find a much larger understanding.
If you look into such things as how we got the books of the bible we have, who exactly created and/or determined the dogma we got (their affiliations, social status, how they benefited, etc.), how it was pushed on the public (by penalty of death, by Roman law), who wrote the OT (an aristocratic priest class of Jews, the same group that runs the world today behind the scenes) and when (post Babylon, where they incorporated money magic and priest magic into their new works, changing the torah and supplementing it with new laws and stories), what motives they had (solidify power, take from the public, control beliefs), external archeological evidence (El was the Canaanite name for the Creator, Yahweh was his son (according to older versions of the bible)), genetic data, translation arguments and script comparisons (you think the bible you have reads as original?), why other gospels were removed, even though there is evidence that some of them were written before the four we got, just to name a few of many discrepancies. you will find a very different appreciation for the teachings of Jesus.
The very best way to tell a lie is to remove context.
The bible we have today has lost all its context.