I understand where you are Coming from. Everybody has their own belief in Christ now days. Just about everyone have A different view in Jesus Christ and who he is.
And All kinds of Bibles and commentaries. And itching ears of the kind of teachers they want. It was already determine and why Christians slaughter their own brothers and sisters and whole families from young Children to no one was left in the house. And killed millions to keep the "Holy Scriptures: in the original language and the last thing they wanted to do is put The Holy scriptures in the common mans Language remember? But the reformer said so what if every one have there own interpretation if only a few get it right it is well worth it for the few. Noah it was 8 Sodom it was 3, Elijah 7,000. So if only out of 1 million if only 10 get it right it was worth it,
"LORD will it only be a few" only a few of us out of every generation will make it. it is a small door. tight.
…"23“Lord,” someone asked Him, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered, 24
“Make every effort to enter through The Narrow Door.For MANY, I Tell You, Will Try To Enter And Will Not Be Able. 25After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply,
‘I do not know where you are from.’…"
"Jesus Does Not Lie"
So it has come to pass everybody has there own Translation, and there own private interpretations now. No such things as rule of
"hermeneutics" any more or
bibicailical terminologies, Any Body Can Be A Leader Of A Church, boy, girl, a woman, a sissy, a grandmother, a man dress up in a dress with lipstick on, a women who dress up like a man with a women wife. they come in Bishops and Apostles, this is Christianity in This Modern Day World.
Adultery is The preferred lifestyle in Christianity, is The Original Copied Manuscript Surprise!
Nope.
There are all kinds of Bibles, everybody got their own view of their persona GOD, Half of Christianity do not believe That Jesus is the Son of God, and the other half do not Believe tha
t "The Parakletos" is a person. and 75% or better do not believe in
"original Sin, and the other 80% believe the most of People are good and the other 90% believe that we are born Good, and make bad choices. and the other 60% believe there is no hell, now, these are christians who believe in the Bible, and only 60% believe it has no error, and the other 40% believe it just a good book. and the other 40% believes it has errors in it, and the others believe that GOD is A girl, And the other ones that is left of the christians over 60% believe GOD is still learning!
By the time Jesus get back, I do not think any part of the real "FAITH" will be left!
So I do understand believers will and throw out the rest they don't like and choose the kind of Bibles they like. for the interpretations any way you want it. and forget about how another interprets, Do it The Burger King way! "have any way you want"
No rules of interpretations, keep developing your own definitions of bible words do everything according to your own Order, do it your way.
And I will do it my way! like I have been doing it for almost 50 years!
and this has been my Motto in Biblical Truth: and studying for a long time and have not change or adopted another mans way.
1.
New International Version
This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls
2
.KJV Psalm 1
1Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2But his delight
is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4The ungodly
are not so: but
are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
3.
PSALM 119 KJV
1Blessed
are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
2Blessed
are they that keep his testimonies,
and that seek him with the whole heart.
3They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
4Thou hast commanded
us to keep thy precepts diligently.
5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
8I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
ב
BETH.
9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
thereto according to thy word.
10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
12Blessed
art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
14I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as
much as in all riches.
15I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
ג
GIMEL.
17Deal bountifully with thy servant,
that I may live, and keep thy word.
18Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
19I
am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
20My soul breaketh for the longing
that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
21Thou hast rebuked the proud
that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
22Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
23Princes also did sit
and speak against me:
but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
24Thy testimonies also
are my delight
and my counsellers.
ד
DALETH.
25My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
26I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
27Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
28My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid
before me.
31I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
ה
HE.
33Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it
unto the end.
34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with
my whole heart.
35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
36Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity;
and quicken thou me in thy way.
38Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who
is devoted to thy fear.
39Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments
are good.
40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
ו
VAU.
41Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD,
even thy salvation, according to thy word.
42So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
44So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
45And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
46I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
48My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
ז
ZAIN.
49Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
50This
is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
51The proud have had me greatly in derision:
yet have I not declined from thy law.
52I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
53Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
56This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
ח
HETH.
57Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
58I intreated thy favour with
my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
60I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
61The bands of the wicked have robbed me:
but I have not forgotten thy law.
62At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
63I
am a companion of all
them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
64The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
ט
TETH.
65Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
67Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
68Thou
art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69The proud have forged a lie against me:
but I will keep thy precepts with
my whole heart.
70Their heart is as fat as grease;
but I delight in thy law.
71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
72The law of thy mouth
is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
י
IOD.
73Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
74They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments
are right, and
that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
76Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law
is my delight.
78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause:
but I will meditate in thy precepts.
79Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
כ
CAPH.
81My soul fainteth for thy salvation:
but I hope in thy word.
82Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke;
yet do I not forget thy statutes.
84How many
are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
85The proud have digged pits for me, which
are not after thy law.
86All thy commandments
are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
87They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
88Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
ל
LAMED.
89For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
90Thy faithfulness
is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
91They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all
are thy servants.
92Unless thy law
had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
94I
am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
95The wicked have waited for me to destroy me:
but I will consider thy testimonies.
96I have seen an end of all perfection:
but thy commandment
is exceeding broad.
מ
MEM.
97O how love I thy law! it
is my meditation all the day.
98Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they
are ever with me.
99I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies
are my meditation.
100I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
103How sweet are thy words unto my taste!
yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
נ
NUN.
105Thy word
is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
106I have sworn, and I will perform
it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
107I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
108Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
109My soul
is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they
are the rejoicing of my heart.
112I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway,
even unto the end.
ס
SAMECH.
113I hate
vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
114Thou
art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
116Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
117Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
118Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit
is falsehood.
119Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth
like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
120My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
ע
AIN.
121I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
122Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
123Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
124Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
125I
am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
126It is time for
thee, LORD, to work:
for they have made void thy law.
127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128Therefore I esteem all
thy precepts
concerning all
things to be right;
and I hate every false way.
פ
PE.
129Thy testimonies
are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
130The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
132Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
135Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
צ
TZADE.
137Righteous
art thou, O LORD, and upright
are thy judgments.
138Thy testimonies
that thou hast commanded
are righteous and very faithful.
139My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
140Thy word
is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
141I
am small and despised:
yet do not I forget thy precepts.
142Thy righteousness
is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law
is the truth.
143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:
yet thy commandments
are my delights.
144The righteousness of thy testimonies
is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
ק
KOPH.
145I cried with
my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
146I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
147I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
148Mine eyes prevent the
night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
149Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
150They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
151Thou
art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments
are truth.
152Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
ר
RESH.
153Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
154Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
155Salvation
is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
156Great
are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
157Many
are my persecutors and mine enemies;
yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
158I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
159Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
160Thy word
is true
from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments
endureth for ever.
ש
SHIN.
161Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
162I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
163I hate and abhor lying:
but thy law do I love.
164Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
165Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
166LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
167My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
168I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways
are before thee.
ת
TAU.
169Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
170Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
171My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments
are righteousness.
173Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law
is my delight.
175Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
4. "When the common sense of "Holy Scripture" makes common sense seek no other sense"
5. Historical Grammatical form of "Hermeneutics"
6. as the Bible for study: "NSRB" copyright 1967 and The 1969 "NSRB" Study System
7. And reading just for reading and relaxing reading "Thompson Chain Reference Bilble Pre 1984 "NIV" plus one of the first Paraphrase "The living bible to just take it apart word for word. as a team.
8. a Reading Bible for reading only and true to the Text, "Harper Collins Study Bible" RSV Pre-1977
9. a True more to The Original Copied text but not a reading Bible but true to the original wording"ASV" pre-1977
10. Collegiate Dictionary
11. Unabridged updated
12. "ISBE"
13. Young's Concordance
14. Strongs Concordance
15. Englishmen Greek Concordance
16. Vines dictionary of New Testament words
17, Englishmen Hebrew Concordance
18. Brown-Diver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
19.Thayer's Greek English Lexicon
And after about 20 plus years of going through every pages over and over again, reading from front to back all those listed above. and not verses. when I st. learn verses Chapters are not ordained or Authoritative by God and not in His Original WORD, I refused to remember them or gave them any regards. But I remember Paragraphs, sentences and stories by conversation, and since I always read those bibles over and over again I knew where to turn to them. by recalling the story that was told in the book. and yes when studying always used a Concordance.
They laughed but I enjoyed it. they only thing I have ever enjoyed doing in this World all my Life was reading the Bible in Quiet alone. and reading "ISBE", and Lexicons, I have never enjoyed any thing in my life more than reading the Bible, more exciting than sex or vacationing or being with my wife.
And those around me knew it. " I Love The Word of GOD" I use to hold it in my arms and go to sleep with it.
Then one day the day came, I did not need any more lexicons, nor any more Concordances, no more dictionaries those Books had been stamped on my Soul and recorded in the memory of My mind, A brain surgeon told me that everything you have seen and every word you have every read is recorded in Your Brain, you might not can recalled it up as your want but it is there. And I Thought, GOD could, and The "Parakletos" is in me. I smiled, "Lord bring to my memory in times of need!" I got happy, like the old folks use to say!
"I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me"
I do not need those things any more, and sure did not need to waste my Brains cells. on reading books, using Bible verses as "Witch Potions" and magic spells scripts. for healings and how to get rich quick solutions, or repeat this bible verses three times a day, or repeat them for 7 days straight! Like so many christians did and tried to pass that stuff off to me, and how to use bible verses to hit the Lottery, and play The numbers! and how to use special bible numbers to unlock things. and how to use oil and rub on people for anointing and how to lay your hand on them to bless people and how to "desire the Gift of Prophesy. I did't,
People and ministers and some pastors just would tell me all the time That as soon as I start singing or move up to the podium the anointing was on me.
Many would say all of these years you are something else, the anointing is on you. and you do not even know it, how strong it is on your. no matter what time of day. Then there were others standing by and they wondered what are they talking about will a bewildering look on there faces.
So I do not need that stuff no more, I am retired now from those events since 2015. I have worn myself out, doing what every he commanded me to do.at any given time. and not by working in a soup kitchen.
So what am I saying. Christianity is not christianity any more, it is the wild Wild West in Christianity now! no rules no order just do it and do it your way.
LUKE 18 KJV
5Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
6And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
8I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless When The Son Of Man Cometh, Shall He Find Faith On The Earth?
I do not think HE will find it, is almost gone already. "where sin abound Grace abounds that much more"
Everyone has Gone his own way. he will find "Entertainment centers", "soup kitchens", "Investment Gurus" and Motivational speakers! and "Women CEOS", and Yoga pants!
NASB 1977
All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
New International Version
Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.
But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'
