Is it normal i can't understand the bible?
I WAS TRYING TO READ IT BUT I COULDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT. THE PSALMS ARE TOO CRYPTIC FOR MY DENSE BRAIN, I THINK. IS THAT NORMAL AT ALL?
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I WAS TRYING TO READ IT BUT I COULDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT. THE PSALMS ARE TOO CRYPTIC FOR MY DENSE BRAIN, I THINK. IS THAT NORMAL AT ALL?
The main reason the Bible has survived and been revered for so long is because it's such a huge, steaming pile of ambiguous crap that people have always been able find just about anything they want to confirm their personal prejudices and basic human idiocy somewhere in it, and because people who have a deep need to control other human beings have used the so-called Word of GOD to guilt people into conformity and compliance.
If you're involved in health care, you don't read the Roman author Galen for advice on how to treat leukaemia. If you're a farmer, you don't pay any attention to ancient Greek texts which claim female ewes are born when the wind is from the south when the mother is mounted by the ram, and male lambs are born if the mother ewe is mated when the wind is from the north.
So, apart from an effort to understand the narrow, ignorant perspectives of an aggressively expansionist iron age tribal people who lived in a harsh desert environment, or maybe to try to get your head around the equally ignorant, bigoted mindset of today's Bible bashers, why the hell would you want to read the book?
The King James translation of the Bible was published in 1614, which was just a year after Skakespeare wrote his last play. So it is true that the English of the KJ version of the Bible is the same as that of Shakespeare's plays and poetry, but not even a rationalist, anti-religious cynic like me would believe that ol' Will wrote the text of the King James Version. Unlike virtually everything actually in the Bible, there is strong historical evidence of the translation and publishing history of the KJV.