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Private interpretation is forbidden by God: 2 Peter 1: 20-21
The reading of the Bible is complex, easily misunderstood: Acts 8: 27-31; Hebrews 5: 8, 11; 2 Peter 3: 15, 16 The Bible says specifically that our Lord taught by Preaching, and sent forth the Apostles To Preach. Nowhere does God tell the Apostles to Write his teachings down. Nowhere.
Teaching is by Preaching: Romans 10: 14, 17; 1 Corr 15: 1,2; 2 Thess 2:14
100% false that everything Jesus and the Apostles taught are in the Bible. John says the opposite: John 20: 30; John 21:25.
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And our Lord established One Church, with the keys to Heaven to Peter: Matthew 16:18-19.
1 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
how do you get that “God forbids private interpretation” from that verse?
those two verses have nothing to do with the believers access to reading the Word of God. the passage is declaring that the prophecy recorded in the Bible was not a product of a man sitting down and making stuff up, but it was directly inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:27And he arose and went: and, behold,
a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
28Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
29Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
30And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
31And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Believers need guidance, but that does not mean they cannot read the Bible by themselves. we should stop and ask questions when we need to, but the Bible remains in our hands.
Hebrews 5: 8, 11 i do not see what that passage has anything to do with the topic. Please explain it to me.
2 Peter 3: 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things;
in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
these passages are not saying that people should not read the Bible. it is only saying that people that are unlearn and unstable tend to bent all scripture not only the difficult passages.
you say “Nowhere does God tell the Apostles to Write his teachings down. Nowhere”.
Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
God telling John (the apostle) to write down in a book and sent it to seven churches. Epistoles dictated word by word by Jesus.
It’s is true that not everything that Jesus did was written in the Bible. i know that for a fact because it is in the Bible.
John 20: 30; John 21:25. I bet that the things that Jesus did that the Bible does not register were pretty much in the same nature of the ones that were registered. You cannot use that fact to justify traditions that have no base in scripture.
I think it would be better if we dont discuss the last statement because i feel that it would result into an argument and not a healthy dialog.
Tony
