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Joe wrote:How long has it taken some of you to finish the Bible? I feel I am more focused on just understanding it and enjoying what I am reading ...but still...]
For greater spiritual understanding, I had to read the works of Christian Identity scholars, which better gave me the key to understanding the scriptures. Individual study is important, but there's no shame in relying on the works of more knowledgeable people to improve your ability to study. See further by standing on the shoulders of giants!
This used to be a fundamental part of a child's education, learning all the major stories and figures in the Bible. It was our shared heritage, just something you knew, like national history or literature. There was something in the news recently about how professors could no longer assume students would understand references to Solomon or Moses.
I've just looked it u, he seemed to be referring to the "KJV Zondervan Classic Reference Bible", which I don't have any direct experience of. When I originally read the KJV it was online with an excessive number of references listed, and with the Rotherham one I mostly use now, a lot of the references merely link to things that use similar wording, but refer to different things, or those that link to earlier passages that only serve to prove the internal consistency, but not my external understanding of what is said.I use the Bible that Clifton Emahiser has for his 'Bible with a good cross-reference prove Christian Identity'. Most of the cross-references I feel are important to understand where the Bible connects together.
The commentaries often have things like 'this refers back to...', 'this is similar to the time' or 'this verse could also mean'.
I know I don't get much more from it, but every so often there is a gem.
2 weeks?, lol.
I never much understood the New Testament until I was much older. The significance of Jesus is very hard to justify without Christian Identity, (and this was Jehovah's Witness confusion anyway) and I much more enjoyed reading about the adventures of the ancient Israelites. Thinking back now with all these "New Testament Christians" denigrating the Old Testament, maybe I was closer to understanding than I thought!I remember when we had to read the Bible at school, most of the time it was difficult to understand the significance of it or what it was saying. But now it is much easier to understand the common theme with an understanding of the Covenant, race, idolatry, the Law. It is then that you finally get the most nourishment from it.
Of the daughter of my people; see Jer_4:11; possibly because Jeremiah loved them, instructed them, admonished them as a daughter.
And the moon, and all the host of heaven, viz. all the rest of the stars, to show that they should not lie out in the day time only, but night also, before the moon and stars, Jer_36:30. Their carcasses shall be cast to their idols, Lev_26:30 2Ki_23:14,20; a kind of lex talionis, that as they had served and worshipped these creatures, God doth, as it were, appoint them as spectators and witnesses of his vengeance, and what contempt he pours upon them, their carcasses being brought before their idols, which will be so shameful, as if one should draw forth the adulteress with the adulterer into open view, and expose them together; and it also insinuates the inability that is in these dumb idols to help them in their misery.
spread ... before the sun, etc. — retribution in kind. The very objects which received their idolatries shall unconcernedly witness their dishonor.
Joe wrote:I know other people use 'Concordances', but I am not familiar with them. That's what I was hoping to get some advice on.
Joe wrote:Thanks again Fenwick. I also think it would be hard for me to understand much of the more obscure passages without some help/different techniques.
I use strongs and other dictionaries through esword.
If anyone wants some help getting a bunch of different free translations (including the Septuagint translations) and commentaries and dictionaries for esword, just PM me.
I wish I knew how to make the esword Bibles, I was trying to learn. I would probably make a private translation of the Christogenea NT. Of-course I wouldn't release it anywhere or tell Bill about it.
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