Why Is The Bible So Little Understood ?

[goodlife]

Foolish are those professed Christians who would serve God and Christ and who would at the same time be friends of the world!

To try to mix the two is like trying to mix oil with water.

It just cannot be done! Why not? Because, as the apostle John tells us, “the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.”—1 John 5:19.

[atalanta]

goodlife should have stopped after the first five words of his/her question.
Actually the title of his/her question has nothing to do with the question itself.
The reason the bible is so little understood is the same reason Grimm's fairy tales are so little understood. People just can't be bothered with both books.

[birdie1971]

Goodlife - "Birdie.. As usual you got hold of the wrong end of the stick.... unless you have understanding of the scriptures you won't get the insight. The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one, so no matter who you are, you are influenced by the God of this System things. This has nothing to do with the God of the Bible..."

Gibberish. This is profound buffoonery of the highest order.

This hogwash may make sense to you Goodlife, but I assure you, it makes those of us unencumbered with the burden of religious belief metaphorically weep at the circular reasoning, inanity and general insanity of it all.

And just so you know, you haven't slipped it past me; you haven't countered my accusation that, "In essence what you're saying is - do not love your neighbour as they are most likely wicked...". Your reply doesn't address my question. Your reply is a dodge and a fudge. In that regard, I give you credit - you are adept in not answering questions in such a way that may fool the casual reader into thinking that you have.

I'm not holding up a white flag just yet but quite frankly I'm getting tired of attempting to coerce some kind of logic out you. You seem to be a genuinely lost cause; incapable of logical discourse and blinded by belief to such an extent that you're unable to construct a cogent argument. An empty vessel who has filled themselves up with fatuous lies and half-truths and who now feels compelled to spout their myopic version of reality onto the rest of us.