Why repeatedly reading the entire Bible is import?
Why repeatedly reading the entire Bible is import?
One has to keep repeatedly reading the entire book of the Bible to soak oneself into the language culture in order to gain more understanding of each Bible verse. Sometimes recital Bible verse is helpfully as daily reminder or responding to unexpected events and temptation. One can only get the superficial meaning or may even miss-interpreted the meaning by just looking into a specific Bible verse. In order to understand the true meaning of each verse, one must not only read by language, but also bathed oneself into the language culture.
For example, we cannot just pick one verse:
Acts 16:31
31They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household
If one is familiar with the language culture of the Bible, one would immediately doubt the “stand-alone” power of Acts 16:31. There must be some more to it.
One must read its following context as well:
Acts 16:32-34
32Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.
If you just read the Acts 16:31, one may think that if I believe in the Lord Jesus, then all people in my household will be saved. However, this is not true.
Following Acts 16:32-34, one has to spread the Gospel to people in his/her household and all people in the household have to believe in the Lord Jesus before everyone be saved. Therefore, salvation only applied to individual person who believed in Lord Jesus. There is no “relatives” relationship in God’s Kingdom. You believed in Lord Jesus then you will be saved. If you don’t believed in Lord Jesus then you won’t be saved. It is simple and direct.
One has to keep repeatedly reading the entire book of the Bible to soak oneself into the language culture in order to gain more understanding of each Bible verse. Sometimes recital Bible verse is helpfully as daily reminder or responding to unexpected events and temptation. One can only get the superficial meaning or may even miss-interpreted the meaning by just looking into a specific Bible verse. In order to understand the true meaning of each verse, one must not only read by language, but also bathed oneself into the language culture.
For example, we cannot just pick one verse:
Acts 16:31
31They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household
If one is familiar with the language culture of the Bible, one would immediately doubt the “stand-alone” power of Acts 16:31. There must be some more to it.
One must read its following context as well:
Acts 16:32-34
32Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.
If you just read the Acts 16:31, one may think that if I believe in the Lord Jesus, then all people in my household will be saved. However, this is not true.
Following Acts 16:32-34, one has to spread the Gospel to people in his/her household and all people in the household have to believe in the Lord Jesus before everyone be saved. Therefore, salvation only applied to individual person who believed in Lord Jesus. There is no “relatives” relationship in God’s Kingdom. You believed in Lord Jesus then you will be saved. If you don’t believed in Lord Jesus then you won’t be saved. It is simple and direct.
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