Have you ever wondered why did God make the Bible in such difficult to understand and ambiguous?

Hebrew for the Old Testament, Greek for the New Testament. Even if the Bible remained only in those languages, there is bound to be different interpretations by different people reading it.

Most biblical scholars adhere to the view that the Greek text of the New Testament is the original version.[10] However, there does exist an alternative view which maintains that it is a translation from an Aramaic original, a position known as Peshitta Primacy (also known in primarily non-scholarly circles as "Aramaic primacy"). Although this view has its adherents, the vast majority of scholars dispute this position citing linguistic, historical, and textual inconsistencies.[11] At any rate, since most of the texts are written by diaspora Jews such as Paul the Apostle and his possibly Gentile companion, Luke, and to a large extent addressed directly to Christian communities in Greek-speaking cities (often communities consisting largely of Paul's converts, which appear to have been non-Jewish in the majority), and since the style of their Greek is impeccable,[12] a Greek original is more probable than a translation.

But which book? Certainly not all the books?

Well, all the apostles are jews so it is obvious that gonna be in hebrew

Jesus told him, “Go and [SIZE=14]do[SIZE=14] likewise.”
If you do not know, Jews and Samaritans have no dealings with one another because they are traditionally enemies.
Jesus purposely used a Samaritan as the good guy compared to the Priest and the Levite who left the injured Jew by the roadside. The Priests were like the pastors of the day and the Levites like the church workers.

What do you think Jesus was trying to convey?

Yes we can . We can answer this in 2 ways:

First way

First, salvation is not merely regeneration. It encompasses our entire Christian life from regeneration to glorification.

According to the Scriptures, there are three aspects of justification. We can cover 2 for this post. The first aspect is before God, which we obtained when we believe. In other words, once we are saved, we are justified, or we may say that once we are justified, we are saved, since God’s salvation includes justification. A justified person is a saved person (Rom 3:24, Gal. 2:16; Rom. 3:20 etc).

Second aspect of justification, the Bible shows that the second aspect of justification is before men - after salvation. We obtain this gradually after we are saved.

1. “A man is justified by works” (James 2:24).

When we were saved, the justification we obtained before God was by faith and had nothing to do with works. But after we are saved, our justification before men is by works, not by faith. Faith caused us to be justified by God at the time of our salvation; works cause us to be justified by men after our salvation.

2. “Let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works” (Matt. 5:16).
3. “We exercise foresight for what is honorable not only in the sight of the Lord but also in the sight of men” (2 Cor. 8:21).
We should exercise foresight for what is honorable in the sight of men in order to match our justified status. Otherwise, even though we may be justified before God, we will not appear to be justified before men.

4. “He who serves Christ in this is well pleasing to God and approved by men” (Rom. 14:18).

Second way

Not so recent Finnish scholarship on Luther's writing -> Christ is present in faith.

Justification by faith is not merely forensic but involving a union of the divine life. It is not something that we are convinced of in our mind; it is something that we receive when we are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). When the living Christ indwells us, His faith becomes our faith. We believe because He is faithful, and He cannot deny Himself in us (2 Tim. 2:13). In our organic union with Him, His faith becomes our faith, and our faith is His faith.

The Christ who is preached to us is infused into us through the word of the gospel. Rather it is the apprehended reality of what is preached; Faith comes from hearing the word of Christ, and this word is not simply about Christ but that which bears Christ into us. The ability to believe that is infused into us (work) is actually Christ as our faith.

This faith is the faith of Jesus Christ in us, which has become the faith by which we believe in Him, as in Rom 3:22, 26; Gal. 2:16, 20; 3:22; Eph. 3:12; and Phil. 3:9. This can only be understood in the union of Christ as faith. It is He who justifies but the abitily to believe out of free will is an operation of his Person as faith infused into us. And tis is faith is in us that God justifies us.

It is a mystery. The twofoldness can only be experienced in the mysterious union with Christ in the Spirit.

That would also mean you are saying Luther is a heretic, right?

LOL, whatever makes you happy, prophet.

"Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’

We serve a great God. We serve a great, great, great, great, God.

It's my privilege to follow Jesus Christ.

If God calls us to not worry or be anxious (Matthew 6:25-34, Philippians 4:6-7), do you all think worry is a sin? I wrote an interesting article on this topic recently.

https://www.christianityunfiltered.com/is-worrying-a-sin/

A Christian blog that challenges traditional church teachings

False. They undertake the vow of chastity voluntarily.

The Code of Canon Law reflects these three “significances” in Canon 277, which mandates clerical celibacy:  “Clerics are obliged to observe perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven and therefore are obliged to observe celibacy, which is a special gift of God, by which sacred ministers can adhere more easily to Christ with an undivided heart and can more freely dedicate themselves to the service of God and mankind.”

Celibacy bears no causal relation to any type of deviant sexual addiction including pedophilia. In fact, married men are just as likely as celibate priests to sexually abuse children (Jenkins, Priests and Pedophilia). In the general population, the majority of abusers are regressed heterosexual men who sexually abuse girls. Women are also found to be among those sexual abusers. While it's difficult to obtain accurate statistics on childhood sexual abuse, the characteristic patterns of repeat child sex offenders have been well described. The profiles of child molesters never include normal adults who become erotically attracted to children as a result of abstinence (Fred Berlin, "Compulsive Sexual Behaviors" in Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors [Boston: NCBC, 1998]; Patrick J. Carnes, "Sexual Compulsion: Challenge for Church Leaders" in Addiction and Compulsion; Dale O'Leary, "Homosexuality and Abuse").

But according to ur understanding, did the god died on the cross?

So u agree god died on the cross?

QUOTE(aral3005 @ Mar 24 2020, 12:18 AM)
If 'the lord' here refer to jesus, then jesus himslef said this in luke 18:19
“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone

One thing i cant understand is, do the christian follower read the bible before believing, or speak or giving statement?cz mostly the bible itself that contradict their understanding.

Bro, the trinity/triune is already an extrabiblical concept/doctrine as u can found in christian history

This virus is a world pandemic. For something this disastrous, can only mean the devil is usually behind it.

I can't remember if the last pandemic in history was this bad...meaning it affected worldwide lives and in turn effects trading.

I don't remember.

Why u called jesus as 'little god'.

Yes, it's written in jewish culture/language, as i try to state that 'son of god' does not mean literally the god have son, or daughter, it's an expression of a believer.

The surely u can show me where the god manifest as 1 person/being from the scripture?

  True, it can be always two-sided .... The Greek word is the same for both temptation and test. With God it is a test; with the enemy it is a temptation. When we pass through the temptation of the enemy, we pass through the test of God to be approved by God ...

It is something I do not agree.

I believe....Now we are in the period of God's Grace. God's judgement will come but under the dispensation of Grace, I believe God is reserving his judgement.

This can be seen when Jesus read Isaiah. (Luke 4:16-19)

Jesus stops at "to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor". Think about it. He could have continue but He did not.

But if you continue reading Isaiah 61, it continue saying "and the day of our God’s vengeance"

With that being said, it doesn't mean there is no disipline or correction from our Heavenly Father.

It's not the same thing though IMO.