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[edit] Is the Bible too mysterious for us to understand?

Discovering the Word: The Ultimate Resource, Part 2:

Is it really a locked book, filled with hidden codes? Do you need to have a degree or be a theologian to get its secret meanings? The answer is an emphatic “no!” And I [Doug Batchelor] say that because I’m exhibit A—living proof that you don’t need to be a great professor of religion to grasp the Word.

[edit] Can uneducated people understand it too?

Yes!

Discovering the Word: The Ultimate Resource, Part 2:

When I first started reading the Bible, I was a high school dropout. Comparatively uneducated, not a great reader, and faced with a King James Bible, I was nevertheless able to understand what I read. God was able to speak to me through His Word, even though I didn’t get everything straight the first time. Eventually, it became clear. And today, even after many years of studying, I am still blessed with new light when I read my Bible.

How did I do it? It’s not a great mystery, and everyone else can do it too. I’ve outlined some basic principles that have proven very useful to me in studying the Bible. These ideas have changed my life and helped me to become an avid student of God’s message. I have no doubt that if you apply these principles, you too will be able to understand, and your life will never be the same.

Discovering the Word: The Ultimate Resource, Part 2:

John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim’s Progress, said, “Read the Bible and read it again. Do not despair of help to understand something of the will and the mind of God as if they are fast locked up from you. Neither trouble yourself though you may not have commentaries and expositions. Pray and read and read and pray for a little from God is better than a great deal from man.”

Bunyan wrote one of the best-selling books of all time, but he was technically an uneducated man in the sense that he didn’t have a lot of formal training. He didn’t have a Ph.D. But he became a brilliant man through the devoted reading of Scripture. He read passages over and over again until they finally made sense. That’s exactly what happened with me [Doug Batchelor].

Who do you think Jesus spent most of his time teaching when he was on Earth? I believe it was the uneducated: the fishermen, the farmers, the tax collectors, the children... His messages and parables, in fact, seem to be tailed just for them. He taught on their level, in terms they could understand (using analogies like harvest, seeds, fig trees, fish...).

[edit] How do I read the Bible and understand it?

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