How not to read the Bible

The focus is on the Holy Spirit transforming us and how that brings about the Spiritual relationship, in which all believers should be overwhelmed by. It all flows into this relationship that is pictured as us being the bride in the ultimate marriage that is rich enough to be enjoyed by all for all eternity. But we lose the focus and instead of trying to navigate our way to the relationship, we instead focus on squeezing much more then we should out of letters and parables in the Bible. Parables are parables because they are used to express a single point that just a few words could not. This same language barrier we have today between the spiritual and the physical world. The world labels things, feelings, and actions in the world around us, but when you have things, feelings, and actions that are not like the world then we have no worlds to represent them. You have to experience it to label it. So putting words into the speakers mouth or writer of letters to support your own Spiritual ideas is wrong, but our Christian culture supports taking such liberties. I wonder what Paul thinks of what we have done with his letters. How we have let our logic create our own flavor of legalism.

The road for believers is by way of identifying distractions and turn away towards that which is Spiritual. Distractions for one may not be a distraction for others and will change over time. I find Paul writing to churches about issues that are a stumbling block, but that does not mean it is a stumbling block for all times. But more importantly if reading the Bible and applying it to your relationship does not significantly deepen then something is wrong. We have replaced what should be unending desire for the relationship with a love for Theology. Our love for Theology is only a way to put ourselves on the thrown. This is all part of our church coulter and is supported by our Christian training system and honored by those who excel. We do not look up to those who have developed a deep relationship but those who have some logical incite to the Bible. We are on the same path as the Pharisees of Paul's time. While the law of the New Testament, that we have created, is not as stringent as the Pharisee's law its' affect is the same on Christians. It shuts down the spiritual and fuels the mind.