"Can we change the bible"?
I'd say for most of Christian History (Ad) 100-1960, A majority of christian thinkers were bible-based and followed a belief system based on the Bible.
2nd Timothy 3:16
"All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,"
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
JOHN CALVIN
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only records in which God has been pleased to consign his truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized, unless they are believed to have come from heaven, as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.[7]
Matthew Henry Commentary on the bible
Rev. 22:18, 19. He that adds to the word of God draws down upon himself all the plagues written in this book; and he who takes any thing away from it cuts himself off from all the promises and privileges of it. This sanction is like a flaming sword, to guard the canon of the scripture from profane hands. Such a fence as this God set about the law (Deut. 4:2), and the whole Old Testament (Mal. 4:4), and now in the most solemn manner about the whole Bible, assuring us that it is a book of the most sacred nature, divine authority, and of the last importance, and therefore the peculiar care of the great God.
The Revelation of John 22:18
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. 19 And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.
So I ask myself this.
Do I belive the bible as True... Yes
Is it the inspired word of God. Yes
Is it Literal: yes
Is it history: Yes
is it Symbolic : Yes
Is it a story: Yes
Is it present: yes
is it future: Yes
I am discouraged by a lack of scripture readings, and following by the modern church. I asked myself the other day when did Christians stop bringing the bible to church? I'd say when the 1st church hooked up a projector and displayed the scripture on a screen. We have in the modern church been given a fast food message. Easy to digest. I admire the liturgical church. Some of the passages are hard to read. some are easy. I like the fact that we study scriptures continually.
I feel as there is a departure from scriptures. Because of this I study more, I dig deeper. The further I go, the more i want to go. Its where I hang my hat.
This is my Bible.
I am what it says I am.
I can do what it says I can do.
I will never be the same.
I will never be the same .
Never, never, never. I will never be the same.
In Jesus name. Amen
