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What I believe- 1- : The Holy Bible


I hold to the confession of faith below, which reflects my current understanding, not infallible in any sense, but just a reflection of the revelation I reached up till this day. I am faithful to preach and teach what God has revealed to me with all zeal and love, without being closed to a wider understanding that God might reveal in the future.
1.    I believe in the Holy Bible, the written form of the word of God, which is a message and not a book. The Bible is the Gospel as presented by the early Church, through the apostles and those who had proven Apostolic authority or pseudo-Authority as in some minor books of the New Testament.
2.    I believe the Bible is inspired by God and is infallible, still our interpretation of it is not. Thus, an understanding of the Bible might Change, as we increase in our knowledge and understanding. I believe that the interpretation of the Bible should not always be literal, but rather depend on the Literary form of the book and the age it was written, thus the truths mentioned in each and every book are divine, but the literary form is based on the age and culture in which it was written, and a proper understanding of the Bible would require a study of the cultural context and the linguistic style, with the understanding that God, our heavenly father/mother deals with people at different seasons based on their capability to absorb and the level at which the culture was capable of processing the eternal truths.
3.    I believe that the Old Testament should be viewed in a Spiritual sense rather than a literal sense, as confirmed by Jesus and the New Testament apostles and teachers. Understanding that all war histories mentioned there were merely a prophetic mirroring on God’s dealing in History reflecting spiritual truths, which only were written after the History occurred, rather than a call to kill or an approval to kill, as wrongly interpreted by some. A clear understanding that the Biblical mentioning of any call to kill was written hundreds of years after the mentioned people were extinct from existence, and thus there was not one call in the scriptures which endorsed or encouraged the murder of Human life, but rather it was a cultural language to convey a message.

4.    I believe that understanding the Bible should be based not on a single verse analysis but rather on putting the dots together and understanding the whole picture of God’s dealing with humanity, where God is drawing a picture of Divine love and relationship with humanity. 
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