Author: captainbars

When I completed a writing course several years ago, I began seeing the Bible in a different light when reading it. My bible is the KJV, and reading it through the eyes of a writer, I then understood people's complaints that it was contradictory and confusing. Many of the men God chose as secretaries to write His Word were educated and literate. But none of them were schooled in writing books. They're repetitive, often backing up to insert something they forgot, or make a point, and have long sentences that stretch into paragraphs, and, well, become boring in many places. Mix it together with the tongue-twisting archaic English spoken in the 1600s, and you have a form of writing that can often send you to sleep. This is why most people hate reading King James. But when you're searching for treasure, you need a pickax, shovel, and light—in this case, you'd have to either learn Hebrew and Greek. But the simplest way is to buy a Strong's Concordance or download their app from the Google store. Whenever you hear sermons or read spiritual articles/books, there are two ways to determine the truth. Search the bible, and/or ask the Holy Spirit (Acts 17:11, 1 John 5:6b). It is the LORD Who places these articles in my heart, to write about them, and I pray for His wisdom and guidance. The Bible is the world's biggest jigsaw puzzle, so if you want to find the complete picture of whatever story is written there, you must find all the pieces. Another helpful hint in bible study is the "law of first mention." You go back and find when a particular subject is first mentioned in the bible. It's often surprising.