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What an awesome point about a book that is divine/human coauthored!

You are appalled because cognitive dissonance causes you to get agitated with reality. It is inspired by the same author - God - over a 1500 year period, through various cultures, languages, empirees....etc. Yet the books still retain the names of their author's because God GAVE them credit for writing down what he inspired in them. That's a lot more than VPW ever did -- he gave nobody credit but himself. It would be a wise choice to try and understand the Bible for what it is, and how it actually came into being in the form we recognize today. But the problem with so called Biblical research as practised by the way is they like to change everything else to match their premise.

CP #5 Go forth as leaders and workers in areas of concern, interest, and need. The concern is getting ahead of their neighbor the interest is in political capital and the need is for the ego to be stroked. But those principles are pristine

No matter whose responsibility it might be, the READER does interpret what s/he reads. Wierwille just wanted to gaslight, or had no idea who was responsible, PFLAP zombies into delegating the responsibility to him. What happens when the "zombies" so delegate? Confusion and every evil work, perhaps? Not my fault, I was only doing (and believing what I was told... and one can't go any farther than they're taught, right?).

Do you really think any of us go and carry out the homework assignments you give? If you want me to read it then post it all at once or as an attachment so I can actually read it with continuity. How/why was john the Baptist a weirdo?

VPW's statement that the Bible interprets itself is nonsense. The act of interpretation of any text is done by the reader of the text. People interpret what they read. They are the ones who give it meaning. Surely we can see that this is a basic reason for many different denominations. They have different interpretations of Scripture. People interpret books and make decisions about what the books mean based on lots of factors, such as the times in which the book was written. We're talking about reading literature here. I'll say the obvious: Bibles are collections of pieces of literature. BTW, some Bibles have different pieces of literature in them compared with other Bibles. People who understand what literature is and who were not brainwashed by Wierwille, realize that books don't "interpret themselves." People interpret books. But because many of us who were vulnerable PFAL students and considered VPW as some great Biblical scholar, when he said that nonsense, many of us believed it. BTW, he's not the only Bible teacher who passes along that thoughtless statement. In Undertow I show my experience in realizing that books don't interpret themselves, people interpret books. I highlighted that point mainly for readers who were indoctrinated in The Way. Readers who never bought into Wierwille's propaganda know that already.

65. Taking classes from teachers with no formal background in the languages studied and with no theological background and either no accredited education or education in other fields not Bible study opens the student up for establishing a habit pattern of exegetical fallacies. You can find many of these directly in the class.