I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

yea

Jeremiah 20:14-18

14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

16 And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

a very intelligent man that Jeremiah

he lived in an evil time too

How come we need to have knowledge of the bible?

Can’t we just acknowledge that it is right?

you don't need to have knowledge of the Bible technically, but iti s helpful

I don’t know if I’ve actually formulated what a bible verse has actually had meant using different words

I’ve only ever said that a bible verse spoke to me due to it being simaler to something that happened to me in life

oh i see what you mean

But I have thoughts that we should only acknowledge it for what the context is

how do you mean?

When I read the words it should only pertain to the theme of the book

I shouldn’t take a scripture and explain it in different words

If someone doesn’t understand it then suffa

Next time I study the bible I’m not explaining what it means

I’ll outright tell them

oh lol well kinda, i mean you can say the same thing in different words obviously, like obviously there's a difference in middle english comapred to modern english though the words still mean the same thing

ie: saying you instead of thee

Not that

When someone reads a verse and says what it means in their own words explaining the sentence so someone understands it, making it easier for the other person

I find that people don’t even ask what the verse means and the person is explaining it to them

yea i see what you mean, i think it's okay to talk about the verses, but yea i think it's true a lot of people, especialyl churches of stone i notice, they'll explain away a verse or passage to the point that it doesn't even mean what it says anymore

Haha

The word is too good to babble on about

Respect that you don’t know anything about it

Put the baby to bed

well you can know, that's probably a big reason why the various people wrote it down lol

Greater works that he shall do but we sit here and chat about how a bible verse means to me

i think bible teachers are more helpful when they cross-reference to tie it all together, rather than just talking about what they think it means

every church of stone's Bible teacher i encountered never read the entire Bible, which i found sort of ironic, and then a good number of them simply cannot beleive half of what it says

and you're right Chase, that's a good point

I have thought and feelings about how it is demeaning to tell someone about the bible

In their own words

With cross referencing

lol sean

well i think cross-referencing is important

to contextualize concepts