Organic Church – Holy Triage

How can people who read the same Bible and attend the same church have completely different interpretations of both God & the Bible?

Think of it like SECURE people and an INSECURE people.

If an INSECURE single person gets a smile from an attractive member of the opposite sex how do they handle it?

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If a SECURE single person gets a smile from an attractive member of the the opposite sex how do they handle it?

When Jesus taught His parables He knew people would react in one of three different ways. Some people would interpret His parables totally wrong, some people would not be able to interpret them at all and some people would actually totally get it.

Today if I read the Bible believing God is mean and He hates me I will add something to it. If I read the Bible believing God loves me it makes it almost impossible to subconsciously add to it… since God is love.

Example: In the parable of the talents it is clear that the man who received the one talent did not believe God was good. See how not believing God is good effects his behavior…..

Mat 25:24-30 “Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’ “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. ” ‘Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Example: Few people in the Old Testament really GOT God like David did as revealed in the Psalms. David is even considered a man after God’s own heart.

Mat 12:3-8 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent? I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

I happen to believe the God of the old testament was totally misunderstood by His followers. In the above scriptures even Jesus clearly indicates these people didn’t GET God (saying David did get God). This makes me question some of the writings in the Old Testament