My Hebrew Bible class has brought up some interesting questions this semester. As I knew already, there are seemingly irreconcilable contradictions in there, which I have found to actually be reconcilable, when you take into account the beliefs of the authors. However, there are some passages which the Christians interpret one way, and apparently the Jews interpret other ways, which we have been studying. It is completely true that when you read something, you're going to interpret it in a biased way, depending on your personal beliefs and preconceptions about the material. For instance, I read many of the passages in the Bible to look forward to Jesus. But when they were written, Jesus had not come yet, and therefore many other people interpret them to be talking about Israel as a nation, or a future messiah king. My TA, who is a Christian, does not read these passages to be talking about Christ. So my question is, does salvation require you to believe in the Bible? I understand in the NT, Paul (?) said all Scripture is God-breathed, or inspired, and therefore is the word of God, and obviously we should believe it. But we are saved by grace, not anything we do. How do we reconcile that? I believe that believing in Jesus and what he did brings us salvation, and everything else stems from that. But if those other things don't follow, what does that mean? Are you really not saved and only fooling yourself? Or does it matter to your salvation? I'm pretty sure that's something I'll never know.
Cool quote of the day:
**Live life like it's going out of style**
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