"THE BIBLE IS MORE THAN JUST A
PLACE TO STASH YOUR DRUGS"
- Thor Ramsey
The Bible is not as family friendly as we have all been allowed to believe. I remember as a younger Christian being offended by discovering that our Bible versions were sanitized. You know, "The SV Bible (sanitized version). It's where biblical scholars have tried to tone down, tame, and not make as offensive some of the more crude and course language of the Bible. Whether it be the prophet Ezekiel railing against Israel with sexually explicit statements or the Apostle Paul calling everything proverbial crap (you can fill in the blanks here) compared to knowing Christ, things are not as near as neat, clean, and tidy in the Scriptures as some people would like them to be.
Or people don't like to talk about the texts of terror, messy parts of the Bible, nor does the Bible really care about making various biblical heroes always look good. Nor is the Bible or even Jesus afraid of you "not getting it." The Bible tells us the truth so matter of factly at times that the truth is neither flatterning nor does it always "feel good" to hear it stated so bluntly.
Some have even said that the Bible is a dangerous book. Maybe people who live out this dangerous gospel are the only ones who really know what this book 'really' says?
PLACE TO STASH YOUR DRUGS"
- Thor Ramsey
The Bible is not as family friendly as we have all been allowed to believe. I remember as a younger Christian being offended by discovering that our Bible versions were sanitized. You know, "The SV Bible (sanitized version). It's where biblical scholars have tried to tone down, tame, and not make as offensive some of the more crude and course language of the Bible. Whether it be the prophet Ezekiel railing against Israel with sexually explicit statements or the Apostle Paul calling everything proverbial crap (you can fill in the blanks here) compared to knowing Christ, things are not as near as neat, clean, and tidy in the Scriptures as some people would like them to be.
Or people don't like to talk about the texts of terror, messy parts of the Bible, nor does the Bible really care about making various biblical heroes always look good. Nor is the Bible or even Jesus afraid of you "not getting it." The Bible tells us the truth so matter of factly at times that the truth is neither flatterning nor does it always "feel good" to hear it stated so bluntly.
Some have even said that the Bible is a dangerous book. Maybe people who live out this dangerous gospel are the only ones who really know what this book 'really' says?
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