You're entitled to express your opinion just as everyone else is. Everyone interprets the bible in a way that meets their expectations and their moral standards.
Sadly, your right, most people do.
sadly people do not look at the word. And just seek to interpret what Jesus said. Or what the word actually says.
God is put on trial and most hate Him because He doesn't do thing their way.
Most people do not hate God. They hate the religion that makes out God to be somethign he is not.
God says he is a God of love and justice. When people claim God is neither, by what they preach, then they make God out to be somethign else.
The problem we all face is, there is no arbiter to tell us who has the right or wrong interpretation.
Yeah we do, Its the word of God. Like I tried to explain to another member, we have the perfect word of God inspired by God himself. All we have to do is look at the Bible and interpret it so everything in it agrees. When we see a contradiction, We do not just overlook ot, or ignore it because it makes our belief in error. We correct our beliefl
Sadly many just ignore it, or try to explain it away in a way which does not really remove the contradiction. Or worse yet. Say look at history.
We all run with our own private interpretation and hope we're on the winning side on judgement day, if we are on the winning side we get to go into eternal paradise but if we're not then we are cast into the lake of fire.
lol. No one wins my friend
The tax collector did not win, He humble self and called out in fear and a lack of hope in his situation, and God came in and rescued him
thats the issue, people make it about self. And not about God..
The problem with the bible is that there are 45,000 different interpretations, that's why we have 45,000 Christian Denominations. Each one claims to poses the correct interpretation, so the Church is not united and there's a lot of bad blood in the Church because of all the different interpretations.
Typical catholic response.
there are only 3 gospels
1. Legalism - They believe in salvation by Grace But we must do our part (works)
2. Licentiousness - Reject Gods grace and claim that because they believe and said some sinners prayer, they are saved, and now can go on living in sin, they are ok. Jude says rightly their destruction was fortold
3. Grace - The tax collector. Jesus paid the penalty of sin in the cross, he who had no sin, became sin for us. Offers us forgiveness, peace and eternal life. But we have to become poor in spirit and recieve it, Like the tax collector.
there is no other gospel.. those are the three..
if we break it down to these three. We quickly see who has the truth and who does not..