I don't want therapy

[Juls]

I have never been much of a touchy feely person, looking for a liberal approach to understanding Christ or the Bible. I also don't go for the atitude where just because it seems right, or feels right that it should be right. Yet, I am not a legalistic person either. I just want to know what those dog gone Greek and Hebrew words meant and how they are meant for us today. Many choose to trust the church (doesn't matter which denomination, they are all the same) to tell them what they mean. My best guess after studying, praying, and looking at them objectively they don't seem to mean what I was raised to think they mean. Which is a good thing. And sooner or later it will sink in. I hope.

[awediot]

Originally Posted by Juls

I have never been much of a touchy feely person, looking for a liberal approach to understanding Christ or the Bible. I also don't go for the atitude where just because it seems right, or feels right that it should be right. Yet, I am not a legalistic person either. I just want to know what those dog gone Greek and Hebrew words meant and how they are meant for us today. Many choose to trust the church (doesn't matter which denomination, they are all the same) to tell them what they mean. My best guess after studying, praying, and looking at them objectively they don't seem to mean what I was raised to think they mean. Which is a good thing. And sooner or later it will sink in. I hope.

You've got a scholarly bent for exegesis and hermeneutics that tends to invoke counting the hairs on my head I didn't pull out, or trying to make a cigarette from all the old butts, just for a distraction...

CrossWalk
BibleGateway
Blue Letter Bible
e-sword (has extensive, free downloadable software of study aids.

Finding out our best, personal method to understand the bible may be as important as what we find in it... More power to ya...(let me know when anything gives you an epiphany or shock you gotta share...)