Frequently Asked Questions: Bible & Bible Quotations Session 1

By Jesus (AJ Miller) and Mary Magdalene (Mary Luck)

Jesus discusses the truth and error contained within the Bible, how the flaws in the Bible have impacted on the Christian faith, and the Bible verses about his life in the first century and the second coming of Christ.
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This ebook is a collection of answers given by Jesus (AJ Miller) on the topic of the Christian Bible. The answers were given in an interview with Mary Magdalene (Mary Luck), who posed frequently asked questions from members of the media and public, on 21st January 2013 in Wilkesdale, Queensland, Australia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Divine Truth Pty Ltd
• Release date: Jan 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310929731

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Frequently Asked Questions:

Bible & Bible Quotations

By

Jesus (AJ Miller) &

Mary Magdalene (Mary Luck)

Session 1

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This ebook is a collection of answers given by Jesus (AJ Miller) on the topic of the Christian Bible. The answers were given in an interview with Mary Magdalene (Mary Luck), who posed frequently asked questions from members of the media and public, on 21st January 2013 in Wilkesdale, Queensland, Australia. In this session Jesus discusses the truth and error contained within the Bible, how the flaws in the Bible have impacted on the Christian faith, and the Bible verses about his life in the first century and the second coming of Christ.

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Table of Contents

1. Are you banking on your followers being biblically illiterate?

2. What is your general opinion of the Bible?

3. Is the Bible the full and only truth that we should live by?

4. What subjects does the Bible cover that you believe are seriously flawed?

5. What are the Bible's most serious flaws?

6. What subjects does the Bible cover that you believe are beneficial to humankind?

7. What subjects in the Bible do you believe contain inaccuracies?

8. How do you feel the Bible portrays your character?

9. What are your comments on verses about Jesus' 2nd coming?

10. John 5:26-30 Do you see yourself as the judge of humankind?

11. Matt 24:29-31 Why haven't you made things right here on earth?

12. Matt 24:23-27 How do we know you're not a false prophet?

13. Matt 24:4-5 Are you not just another false Christ deceiving us?

14. Are you not a false prophet and deceiver? You will go to hell!

15. Matt 24:4-5 Who would come in your name and deceive many?

1. Are you banking on your followers being biblically illiterate?

Mary: Are you banking on your followers being biblically illiterate?

I have to smile at this question, hey. Obviously a lot of sarcasm comes through with a lot of the questions we receive, particularly questions that we receive from Christians. There seems to be quite a lot of sarcasm present in the questions. Am I banking on my followers being biblically illiterate? Well, probably the first thing I'd like to do is discuss the issue of sarcasm in questioning.

According to the Bible and maybe if I could use the Bible’s quotations … The person here is talking about being biblically illiterate. Obviously the person has a feeling that they are biblically literate themselves and therefore they feel that biblical literacy is very very important in anything that is being presented. Of course, I say quite frankly and openly and honestly at all of our seminars that we don't agree with the Bible being God's word, so there really is no need for a person to be biblically literate in order to understand the different things that we are presenting to them. In the first century there was also no need for anybody to be biblically literate to understand what I was teaching them, and that's the case in both centuries. The need for literacy, with the common word of the day that was agreed to be God's word is not important in understanding Divine Truth and it's definitely not important when it comes to demonstrating Love.

But we can maybe just go through some Bible verses talking about this particular attitude of sarcasm and then I'm happy to answer the question more fully. Let's look firstly at the Jesus of the Bible, in his words as recorded in Matthew 22. The verses I'm looking for here were the verses where he was asked the question What is the greatest commandment? and in Matthew 22, verses 37-39 he gave this answer. He said Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second, like it, is Love your neighbour as yourself.

So the primary commandments of all of that was written before Jesus came onto the Earth in the first century … and it's very hard for me to talk about Jesus in the third person for the sake of people because it was me who was saying all of these things, but when I was on Earth in the first century I could see that the primary commandment that was required was to love, and love would be the guiding force of everything. And then, if we look in Matthew chapter 7, there's another verse that says So in everything, do to others what you would have them do unto you for this sums up the law and the prophets. Here I was talking about this point of ethics. The point of ethics is, Don't do to other people what you would not like to have done to you.

Now this person here is being sarcastic with me. I'm pretty sure this person would probably not like to have people being sarcastic with them, so they have already broken that particular principle. Although they are biblically literate they have already broken the principle that they say they are literate about. So just because a person has biblical literacy, it doesn't mean that they love and it doesn't mean that they have any idea what love actually is nor have any idea what ethical treatment of another person is.

Literacy doesn't guarantee understanding at the heart level. In the first century there were obviously many people that I spoke to. I spoke to Pharisees quite frequently. Many of the Pharisees had exactly the same attitude. They would come to me asking sarcastic questions demonstrating their lack of literacy when it came to understanding. They understood from an intellectual perspective. They were literate; they were well educated. They knew about the Bible at that time, let's call it the Torah, which was the main thing that they understood, but they had also read many of the prophets. They read it as a point of holiness. They didn't read it for personal application. They read it for a point of holiness, a ‘proof’ of their own holiness or worth. As a result of that they would read this material and then of course they would try to force the people to follow the material, even when they did not follow it themselves.

And their literacy did not guarantee their honesty, did not guarantee their truthfulness. It did not guarantee their love. In many cases it actually assisted them to have a poor character because they felt more important than others, that they had more worth than others. As a result of that they were very unloving people at the time. And this is what I find with many Christians who send me abusive emails. They can be very unloving while at the same time quoting a whole heap of Bible verses to me. Now generally I don't feel inclined to answer a lot of these questions. But I am going to point out their unloving behaviour to people and I feel this is why, with the answer of this question, it's very important for me to first focus on the unloving behaviour.

There's another scripture in First John, chapter 4 verse 20 which talks about love and it says If anyone says ‘I love God’ yet hates his brother he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. Now when I look at that verse I go, "Okay. Here is a person who’s demonstratively not really asking a question but making a sarcastic statement. They have no love for me at all, in fact quite a lot of anger and hatred directed towards me in the question, which is a demonstration that they do not practice those three verses that I've just read out. Even though they may be biblically literate, it hasn't helped them to come to a proper understanding of the truth. It hasn't helped them to become more loving. It hasn't helped them in any way really. In fact, according to ‘their Jesus’ words, they are not even following their Jesus, the Jesus of the first century that they say they believe in.

Obviously those are words that I did state and they are definitely not following the teaching that I gave them in the first century, let alone anything I might teach now. So my suggestion to such people is, "Stop asking sarcastic questions, start looking at your sarcasm as a problem, as an issue of love or lack of love and start addressing the particular problems that you have with a lack of love. It's the lack of love that will determine how well your life will be lived on Earth and how well you will be received into the spirit world. It's not