Christians claim it is inspired by Jesus whatever that means
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No, its the inspired Word of God. Jesus isnt even in the Bible until the New Testament. The easiest way to begin understanding this is to get literally everything you currently think of Christianity. Like I said, you are mistaking Christianity for Chrurchianity, or worse Judaized Christianity. None of that has any relevance to Christian Anarchy.
How do you know it’s the inspired word of god?
I was clearing up what you said about it being inspired by Jesus' words. Nobody has ever claimed that. Ever.
Most Christians I know quote the Bible as if it is the word Jesus so I wouldn’t say that no one has ever claimed that. You can claim that they are wrong but it is a common belief that any religious scripture is the word of god.
Again, Churchianity is NOT Christianity. Most of those clowns are 100% Biblically illiterate.
Okay so what do I with the Bible then? Because the verses I showed you were fake according to you. How do I know which is real and which is fake?
Fake? I never said nor implied anything of the sort. I said it is another person speaking.
Pick a podcast, any and all can explain this better
I would rather just go to the direct source/evidence. Is the Bible a credible source?
Yea, read it yourself, thats the best way for sure
But when I shared a Bible verse about loving the church, you rejected it. I’m so confused
All I said was it was not Jesus speaking so its less important than things He did say. The entire Bible is valid, just the teachings of Jesus supercede anything anyone else said. They werent wrong for telling people to commune with each other (church then is not the same as church now, often it did not involve anything but people gathering outside) but church as in a physical building is an Old Testament Judaic concept (temple, and they did mean a physical building).
Those podcasts also refer directly while explaining the position. The Bible itself isnt going to explicitly explain Biblical Anarchy. But its there for those with eyes to see. And as you are not a statist, I think you will be able to see it. Just forget / unlearn all you know about mainstream Christianity first
Give this a listen when you can
I’m not a religious person bro
Unless I am misunderstanding you, to be fair, plenty of Christians do claim that. They claim Jesus is god (and the holy spirit is god for that matter), and that the bible is the divinely inspired work of god. Therefore, the bible is the divinely inspired work of Jesus. Also, I am pretty sure there is a large subset of Christians who would take exception to your "Jesus isn't even in the bible until the new testament" argument and would state that the entirety of the bible is about Jesus. In fact, i believe I saw a pretty well known npub on her state that just the other day. If you are saying that only the words of Jesus matter in the bible, then why revere the bible at all...if you don't take the entirety of the bible as a whole being the divinely inspired work of god, then what is your justification for following Jesus?
I have never once heard anyone say the words 'the Bible is the inspired Word of Jesus' regardless of Jesus being God in the flash. And besides, no version of the statement exists anywhere in the Bible.
And when did I say I thought the Bible was anything other than divinely inspired?
That is where the "misunderstanding you" prefix in my note came from...I sensed some less than devout enthusiasm for the bible other than the words of Jesus in the thread. I was obviously incorrect. Sorry about that.
I'm curious if you view the bible as the divinely inspired Word of God which reveals Jesus Christ, who is himself the ultimate Word of God (John 1:1) but that Jesus (the Word of God) does not inspire the bible (the Word of God)?
I had the same sense regarding the Bible
Nowhere in the Bible do either of those statements exist though. Obviously its inspired. But the statement itself is just made up.
And yes, I do have less enthusiasm about parts that dont directly pertain to Jesus. Not that the whole thing does not have value or great messaging, but the whole point is Jesus. Without Him, there would be no Bible.