When the Creator of the Universe contemplated to the humanity in his totality, not to the one of certain time and place, but to the TOTALITY: to the nomadic shepherd of 3 millenia ago and to the philosopher of, the two ago industralist carrying a Blackberry of the 21st century and to the farmer of the average age, when it saw all that one panorama by all means that it knew in its immense love two things: that all we (the HUMANITY) would have very many questions that to do to us with respect to why exactly we are here in this world. Why we thought, that we are exactly and Who put to us here and why.
That is something that all the humans we have common. The capacity to do questions to us about we ourself.
A dog, a lion, a dolphin or any other animal will not ask anything about its origin nor of its destiny. But the human being, unlike the animal, was equipped by the creator of OWN EXISTENCE, of BRINGS BACK TO CONSCIOUSNESS yet what she implies: capacity of analysis, observation, intelligence, capacity of deduction, feelings and emotions. And it leaves from that “software� or operating system by means of which our brain works executes a constant question: “Who I am and why I am here�
Some before the frustration of not finding an answer simply silence that question ignoring it. Sometimes all the life, as one bothers window of warning in a computer that we chose to close time and time again. There is nothing can explain why beings product of the chance would develop a so urgent NECESSITY TO KNOW to their origin and its destiny. But the certain thing is that NECESSITY of same knowledge about one this present in each human being and science and the religion have been born to a great extent product from that necessity.
When the astronomers explore the space or when certain monks meditate in fact about that same deep space they are doing the same: looking for answers about its origin. And somehow the human being knows instinctivamente that the answers are beyond this earth.
Having this in account, having this present necessity in all human being, the Creator had to put the answer to this necessity.
As well as the Creator put the necessity to us to feed to us and desire to do it (the hunger) and also placed Earth foods. In the same way that the Creator incorporated sexual desires and the love and the way to satiate these desires and feelings when placing us in two unique and complementary sexes clearly defined by Biology and science.
The Creator had to put an answer on our origin and future and the unique way to make it of global way, the unique way to generally place a visible answer that explained everything what we have necessity to know era by means of a book because the written language is the unique lasting code in the time able to be included/understood by men of all time and place. The men we are born with the capacity to read, soon we learn to do it.
A book is the unique way that had God to speak to him to Egyptian of the century a 10 AC and to a Roman soldier of century II, to a shepherd of century III AC and to a clerk of century XX.
They would read that book in a camel leather, others in a parchment, others in printed paper, others in a portable device or a computer.
The Creator was in charge of which a Great Book with the answers that we needed, throughout about 1500 years was written and using 40 people (because the book same volume but time in being written which the life average of very many people) and soon was in charge to spread it to global scale. The Bible is the book but printed, spread and read mainly the planet.
And in spite of which many create, since it were written to respond questions and it does not stop to seed doubts, is very many but simple to read than many they create.
The great problem has been the INTERPRETATIONS of this book, especially the interpretations that are superposed to the conclusions. Generally when one reads a book, if nothing has to him counted of this book, reads and according to which reads extraction conclusions. And that would be the correct way to read the Bible: to leave Bible spoke it by itself.
But the problem is that when a person approaches the Bible to read it so what is for the first time, already arrives at her with so many prejudices and previous histories that the majority of the words that one reads it associates them to concepts that nothing they have to do and so the Bible says.
For example, the surroundings repeat until the fatigue that Jesus is God, and that the Christians adore Jesus. One is not only the churches: but of the programs that speak of the churches, the newspapers, the studies, the documentary ones and until the jokes. The surroundings give like a fact that the Bible standard that Jesus is God and that the Christians are a new religion founded by Jesus who said that it was God.
Then when they abren the Bible and they read whenever Jesus speech thinks that it is God “done man� who speaks or something thus.
The certain thing is that if one reads the Bible of principle to aim, without no formed previous concept, and no interpretation: drawing only conclusions than it reads, one Lee who Jesus is a man.
- It is born from the belly of a woman, like a man.
- It walks, it eats and to duer com to me a man.
- The son of the Man is called constantly to itself “�
- He never affirms to be God or to an angel or nothing who is not a man by nature.
- He dies and he bleeds like a man
- When he returns to the life, when he revives. he again makes in a body of meat and bones as a man and returns to eat and to drink to make the idea clear.
That is the Jesus of the Bible and is the Jesus of history. The historians say that Jesus was a rabbi or masterful Jew who lived in century I, and the Bible agrees with that. The Bible which beams is to explain why this Man was so special.
This it is an example of how often people approach the Bible to support with interpretations some previous arguments that do not come from the Bible. It is the worse form of prejudice than it can exist.
In order to read the Bible we must return to us like children: to do of account that nothing we know of her. That where says BREAD it means BREAD, that where it says WINE it says WINE. Sometimes we will have to leeer the context to know if WINE talks about to a drink or the verb to come and will not be difficult: if it says WINE WALKING FROM SUCH CITY will be the verb TO COME, if it says DRANK WINE will be the WINE LIKE DRINK. The Bible is a book that can simply be understood if we read as a book indeed, like a REAL HISTORY and not like a mystical fabric of dark passages and veiled hints that a few theologians only can understand.
The function of the truly Christian theologian nowadays, has been but to help “to cleanâ€? the Bible of preconceptions, that to establish or to discover new things. To forget the bad thing learned has been the untiring work of the majority of our masterful brothers in these almost 2000 years of apostasÃa and obscurantism where many tried masterful founded religions affirming that they were based on the Bible and protected on her.
If sos of those people who become questions on their life, its existence and its future. I invite abrir your Bible to you. But solo, and far from any previous idea. For of account which not sabés nothing of her, tené that humility because but the probable thing is that it happens to you like when comenzé to read it with honesty: nothing of her knew in fact.
That is the problem with the Bible: one always creates to know but than really it knows. For that reason humility is required and a abierta mind to leave it Bible is the one that teaches to us and it speaks without looking for something to us specific. To leave Rep them them of the Bible they find and specifically not to look for tal o cual thing us in there.
Some questions will be born, this clearly. Sometimes he is useful to have but of a translation of the Bible in the same language because the Spanish language has even changed with the years and some words have fallen in disuse and others arrived at the daily use. It is good for comparing a passage in both translation to clarify some text not very clearly where perhaps the translator of a version was but accurate that the one of another one.
We remember that the Bible was written originally in Hebrew, in Greek and in Arameo and very few among us we spoke those languages. What we have in our hands they are translations of the old manuscripts that are by thousands (joined from all time) in the museums.
The way simple to read the Bible is indeed TO READ IT. To sit down, abrir it, and to read it as if escucharamos to Somebody to tell the important history us but of all. The Bible is, but that any other book to which that expression could be put, the HISTORY OF OUR LIVES.
But we must undress of all previous idea to read in her what says, and NOT TO READ WHAT IT DOES NOT SAY. As important as to read what WHAT says it is NOT TO READ IT DOES NOT SAY and not to give anything by seated. NOTHING.
God is ALL-POWERFUL? We do not give it by seated. We read if it says it to the Bible… it says if it is it. Clear in this case it says clearly very many times to it I put but it of example of which NOTHING must occur by seated, but to leave Bible it says it to us.
The soul is immortal? Where it says the Bible to it? It says perhaps it clearly. it describes to the people leaving his body when dying, or describes that the people return to the dust and stop existing?
That is another ingrained concept where the majority CREATES to know what the Bible says without really knowing it.
Today it is a good day to begin to read the HISTORY OF OUR LIVES, of how they can change our lives, of the meaning of our lives.
Today it is a good day to begin to read the Bible.
Shalom
