Understanding The Bible: My Understanding Of The Bible

My understanding of the bible is in a ways at conflict, I 'm not sure what I understand when it comes to the bible anymore. Growing up, I was raised as a Christian girl, a preachers ' grandchild at that. Reading and learning the bible is something that I didn 't question I just did it, like a requirement, it was something that was in our weekly routine . But as I 'm growing up and reading the bible I 'm learning how to compare the different verses, critique it, I 'm learning how not to be bias of the bible, and I 'm learning that it contradicts itself. Being that I was raised a certain way within the church, and I 'm now taking courses that makes me question things I never had to question before, my thoughts and understandings are now

A way to live and go throughout their life span the way the bible says they should. Some people follow the bible but in a secular way. As in they believe in the things the bible is supposedly teaching them but they also believe that some of the worldly views are just as important or they tie in with each other some way. A believer looks at the bible, reads the bible, try to live by the bible, and learn from not only the other characters mistakes but the right things they have done. The believers who try their best to do this try to live as holy as possible and/or how God may have wanted them to live out their lives, saying as though everyone has a reason for being on this earth and whether or not they are living their lives through that purpose. The people or believers, uses the bible basically like a guide to a great after life in heaven.

I understand the bible can be used as a tool as well. It can be used as something positive and something negative. Back in the days when slavery was about, the bible was used as a tool to control and enslave the black race and even once slavery was over they found a way to use it as

One thing for instance is that Moses wrote the first five books of the bible. Also that the bible is actually in reality just a big collective of different stories, written by different people in the bible. The bible is broken up into two different parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament. The most unquestioned Testament is the Old. The bible was also written in three languages which is Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic. Seeing as though there is many different beliefs I was also recently taught in my African American history class that the monolithic view was brought upon by Queen Nefertiti and her husband Akhenaten not Abraham, so that goes back to my confusion state. All and all my understanding of the bible is all bunched up and hopefully after this class ends I will have a clearer view and understanding and know more an about the bible and what I believe my religion