Preface
I know that some of the readers of this book will wish that my passion for wanting to understand the Scriptures would not have led to the discoveries presented within these pages. However, when the truth comes to set us free, the change it brings about does not have to be painful even to those who have been caught off guard. Fear is a choice after it is recognized. We do not have to allow ourselves to fall prey to it. The truth should always be welcomed, for it is meant to be part of who we are.
I never had a bible until after I had graduated from college and married. It had been simply understood in our family that you did not need one. You could say that we put an inordinate amount of faith in the person who read and explained the Scriptures every Sunday. I must have dozed off a lot during those years for I missed the truth that ‘We are always in a process of becoming how we treat others,’ and ‘we come to know God only to the degree that we treat others with goodness, justice, tenderness and compassion,’
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When I did begin reading the Scriptures, it was because I had a desire to understand them; but I found out that it was not all that easy to perceive what much of it really meant. When I went to the commentaries, I found that even those authors disagreed with one another. This book is about the journey of how I came to understand the intended meaning of the Scriptures. What I found out will surprise you. The Scriptures were written clearly and succinctly with the purpose of enlightening the reader who understood the literary form in which they were written. ...continued |
