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The Bible is ...Self interpreting
Being Born...
The Bible is self-interpreting IF you have the right equipment. God's covenant is so powerful that it creates a whole new life in you born out of His own Spirit. Without his Spirit, the Bible is just rules and confusing stories.
One time Jesus was talking with Nicodemus, a trained teacher of Jewish Law observence and he explained to him,..
John 3:3-5 
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb again and be born?
Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God. [Ezek 36:25-27 .]
What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. AMP
You must be born from above.. or you cannot even see God's Kingdom, let alone understand how it operates and how you are to live in it. But when you are born from above (born of the Spirit)...
You have another birthday
...and You have the right to BECOME Sons (actual blood relatives) of God
John 1:12-13
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. KJV
Jesus said, My words are SPIRIT…
John 6:63-64
3 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe." NIV
"Spirit" here is the greek word, "pneuma" meaning "breath" or blast. It means "Inspired word", the pneuma of God, "Breath of God", or "God breathed"
Genesis 2:7 describes how God breathed into Adam, and what He breathed into him was Life. It is the same action, when God speaks, Life comes out, when we record His words and later read and believe them, they still produce Life because His words Are actually Life itself.
His word is ALIVE - it contains POWER to change things. the Bible is not a book of rules, it is a book of life.
The only thing that hinders Life being produced in us is our receiving and believing his words for what they are. The concept of "believing" is more than just a casual agreement with a general idea. Believing in the biblical application involves a complete surrendering over to your life into what is being revealed by the words said. It is nothing less than entering into covenant relationship, yielding over your whole self completely to the words and Spirit of God.
When the scriptures say that
Gen 15:6
And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God). [Rom 4:3 ,18-22; Gal 3:6 ; James 2:23 .] AMP
it is describing Abraham recieving and walking in the strong bonds of God's covenent, not just a casual belief.
God's word has power to create things, In the beginning, God said, Let there be... and it was. All of the universe, and life exist as a result of God's words being released.
The Bible can only be fully understood from the realm of the Spirit. God is Spirit (John 4:24 ).
If you read with common understanding, the Bible produces legalism, arguments, and death instead of life.{mospagebreak title=Bible is Not a Book of Rules}
The Bible is not...
The Bible is not just a book of rules.
The bible is not a cosmic "to do" list to earn God's love. When we measure our goodness according to the standards given on the Bible we all fail. Some of us can perform rather well in certain aspects of righteous living but the message of the book of the covenant says:
Rom 3:23-25
Yes, all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious ideal; yet now God declares us "not guilty" of offending him if we trust in Jesus Christ, who in his kindness freely takes away our sins.
25 For God sent Christ Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to end all God's anger against us. He used Christ's blood and our faith as the means of saving us from his wrath. TLB
The blood of Christ is the life offered to enforce and satisfy god's covenant. "Our faith" is the same as Abraham's "believing" or signing over everything of himself and his ways into God's covenant proposal.
The bible is not just a history book.
The history in the Bible is a record of many events important to the making and verification and teaching of God's covenant relationship with man. The history in the Bible is accurate, but it is not a complete history of the earth. There are some events like the three years of Jesus life on earth that are recorded in some detail, but huge sections of time aren't even recorded. The reason is that as the book of the covenant, only the information pertinent to finding and living in God's covenant is collected and preserved.
The Flood of Noah is described from this same perspective. It doesn't describe the science of how the flood came and the cataclism of climate change, the elimination of most dinasours, mastadons, etc. The Bible tells us what we need to know about why the flood came, and what renewed covenants God gave to Noah, his sons, and all other life after the flood. The bible gives us the "need to know" covenant news and lets the rest of discovery to good sound science and archeological investigation. Many people claimed the story of the flood as fiction, but the more we find out about the earth, rock layers, fossil records, and such, the more evidence is found to support the truth of the bible.
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