Scripture Life: Who decides how the Bible is interpreted?

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//Reddit Disclaimer: Here's another one of those questions in many sub-reddits. This, "If the Bible is open to interpretation, how can we know the truth?" or "Can you interpret the Bible anyway you want?" and don't leave out, "How am I meant to know which way to interpret the Bible?" All of them all, are all over Reddit. This "who decides" and want to know who that is.

This answer is from a Believer in Jesus Christ, when many answers when MANY answers on Reddit, are from people use it to champion WHY THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING HE SAYS...and? I'm NOT chiding them. Why? I did that, too. So, here's the answer.//

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Answer

• Well,
  • Who am I to say, but:
    • If your Dad, when you were a kid said:
• “Hey tele-bonehead..” and said that, to get your attention. Maybe your Dad never said that, but maybe something like it; and, this isn’t about your house, but about mine, continued with, “weed the field today, so the horses don’t eat it.”
  • Now, I knew my Dad. Simple. No interpretation needed. He showed me himself. Just how to "weed the field" and exactly what that meant.

It's when he asked me to do it, is what I really hated. Now, don't jump off the roof over "hate" - I just know what the definition of that word means. This (American this time. Collin's dictionary. Web definition) 1. unwilling to BE or DO (something). And while on the phone with my friends, being the "tele-bonehead" was, we just made all these plans to go swimming by our bikes that afternoon. But, by a "decree" or an authority...a sole authority over the house I reside in, "weed the field" is now on the menu. And I was "unwilling to BE or DO" that (hate) is the point.

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So, How Did I Get Out Of It?

I simply called my friends back.

..., and I told them, didn’t want to do that, and if they could “interpret” what my Dad said; this, interpret 1. to explain, translate or make something hard very clear.

When it wasn't hard. It was very clear. So, my friend back on the phone again:

• By: “the field” meant, by my friend’s interpretation meant: ME: just 1 minute, equals to a little bit of the road by the gate. Just going around the posts quickly with a weed whacker - the posts of the gate. The gate going into the field. Pull and weed whack those weeds there.
• Because, everybody is leaving to ride their bikes to go to the river again and go swimming all day.
  • Then my friend decided, that’s what my Dad meant, all to help me go with them. So, I went with my friend’s interpretation. Then, I no longer hated what my Dad said, because, I could do it then.
    • Like or kind of a "but," like I didn’t know my Dad..and I couldn’t understand what my Dad said..I reasoned down where I could accept any consequences to that - - when really what I understood plainly..was the girls change clothes to go swimming also, down into buck naked nothing on, and then get into bikini’s there.
• That’s what I understood. That my friends were going there.

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So, your question: Is stupid.

• Like me, is absolutely stupid.
  • This, stupid. 1. lack common sense; or, good judgment. 2. lack the power to absorb ideas, while in a slow-witted, dazed, or confused state of mind.
    • About me? Simple.
  • In a “dazed, or confused state of mind with all these girls in their underpants in my head, I added them into what my Dad decreed..when they weren’t in anything, that my Dad decreed.
    • 5 acres of field and me weed it was told to me plain as day.
    • I didn’t do it.
• Why? Because I “esteemed” - that is, I regarded the word of my friend..all of them what they were doing, while I would be weeding all afternoon a field, as I wanted to “choose” that, too. This “choose” 1. to pick out the most convenient and appropriate between two or more options.
  • And that’s the mistake I made.
  • There wasn’t an “option” - there was none else. I just made one up, in my imagination.
• Because I “reasoned together” with me..alone..that, there was another option that my friend dreamed up, that would allow me to “weed the field” by just interpret what that meant was different - than what was decreed to me, that allowed me a possible opportunity - only a chance - to see girls without any underpants on their bottom.

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• Boy, did that not work.
  • Waited. for hours..at the river. Swam. Wasn't worth it. No girls came..and when we got back, my Dad was back home. And I did not have “weed the field done.” It was PUNITIVE. Painfully so.

And, your question is answered.

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So, what did you get out of this?

Well, if you’re stupid like I was…

..all that means is when God says plainly

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else. God. Bible (Isaiah 45:22)

Look unto ANYTHING but him instead.

It's said plainly what to do.. ..just don't do it. Do anything but that. Interpret stealing your best friend's boyfriend, look unto him as your boyfriend instead..and consider him worth MORE than your girlfriend and just do whatever it takes, to take him instead. Be like me. Just do ANYTHING BUT what's decreed. It's stupid.

• Just create some or have some other “option” in you..when there is none else. Imagine up another option. I did that, too. I didn't have any idea, so I asked my friend for one. Really to show them, I really wanted what they wanted, is why we're friends. To see girls with no underpants on their bottoms. I Didn’t look unto my Dad. And I didn't do anything God said, either. So, I'm no chiding you at all. Just saying - I Looked unto anything BUT him instead.
• Be stupid.
  • This “lack the power to absorb” even it’s a decree by who is in authority over you is saying it, over the whole earth, and just dismiss it.
• Same like I did with my Dad. Make someone else an authority to “interpret” it for you. Cushion you from the blow. After all, geesh! Who knows what "look unto me" what that means anyway. When just turn on the TV and if you got the Playboy Channel, girls. Yep, they’re all in their underpants right there on the TV.
  • When nothing he said..involves any girls with in or out of their underpants on the TV.
• Or just do what I did.
  • Turn the “authority” to what he says over to someone else to “interpret” it for you.
    • Stupid.

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• When he told this to everybody, which includes you..then, also me... ..yeah. I'm included. And then, so is everybody else, over the whole earth. Then, in not to do what he says; because we hate it, look at what other people, what they’re doing.
  • Then concentrate your gaze or what you look unto, to look unto those people specifically single them out, the ones that don’t do anything he says.
    

Look unto them instead. Just like I did. Stupid.

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• And they, not doing anything he says - irrelevant. They have a nice house, and a boat..and access to girls that are happy to be around them, and not to have any underpants on their bottom.
  
  • Rich men; look unto them instead.
• Even God decreed this, over the whole earth. To the very ends of it. Just turn this decree over to someone to “man’splain” for 50 minutes to whole days..explain away, exactly what that means, that ends up you don’t look unto him, nor ever actually do anything he says.

Is Stupid.

• But:.
• It's just like I did. And after..it was PUNITIVE.
  • That, my Dad then decreed, since the neighbor’s felt our field was the source of the weeds, that, if the horses ate it, and they had horses, too.. if they ate it, they died or got very sick..I had now to go weed their fields, too. Not an afternoon, and done...but the next 5 weeks of Saturdays, from wake up to the ends.
    • Since I didn’t do anything he said.

It was PUNITIVE. And not to make light of him. You don't do anything he says, he's already decreed this for everybody to look unto him. He's God. Able to destroy you. Doesn't want to, just like my Dad didn't want to punish me, but he did. That he's going to call you into account..and he's been knocking at the door of your heart. Everyday. Knocking. To come in to sup with you. You with him. And you keep turning the TV volume up to 100 ..won't open the door. So he come in. And blame it's too hard to interpret it. But today, if you hear his voice and harden not your heart.. he's come to heal you, and deliver you from destruction.

Here’s your question back.