Do Christians ever learn that all parts of The Bible are not equally authentic, nor relevant, nor true?
As a New Christian, I was taught to preach the Great News to people, that, if they did not Repent- preferably immediately then they would go to Hell when they died- because their Souls were not Saved, like mine was.
After I developed to the point where I could think for myself, I saw that the Bible Answers that I had been given were often based on monocular interpretations, which ignored any Biblical Data thhat did not fit the Denominational Theory.
. ECCLESIASTES 3:19.
19. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
A LOT OF STORE is set by the statements of an unidentified author, whose writings were added to a collection of known Prophets, who thhoroughly identified themselves, and were recognized as Messengers of God- whereas THIS.... well, bozo makes no claim to Divine Inspiration, but EXPLICITLlY STATES that he is just giving HIS OWN OPINION, and talking about HOW THINGS APPEAR TO HIM.
. ECCLESIASTES 3:18.
18. I said in mine heart, concerning the Estate of the Sons of Men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
THE OWNERS OF THE SCRIPTURES are the Hebrew People, not the Gentiles. They would not be enthusiastic about Gentile races hijacking THEIR God out from underneath them, so they incorporated DEAD LETTER BOOBY-TRAPS.
. MATTHEW 13:47-48.
47. "Again, The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a Net, that was cast into the Sea, and gathered of every kind:
48. "Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the Good into vessels, but cast the Bad away."
GENTILES ARROGANTLY SUPPOSE that just because a thing WAS created by God, that they have the Divine Rght to eat it.
THIS was the First Sin.
God reserved the Right to tell us what we cannot eat.. Gentiles don't believe that.
Therefore, a Gentile, seizing The Bible without the guidance of a Levite, nor a Rabbi will swallow every booby-trap, and blow his brains up, trying to incorporate incongruencies, because they think they need "EVERYTHING" that is in The Bible, just because it is "in The Bible."
Whereas, even the Jews have no use for the verses that Gentile Christians robotically use to build scaffolds to hang themselves on, like Haman the Terminator!
Doctrines built on those verses are not valid.