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Do you agree with the lecturer that a person must be a born-again Christian in order to understand the Bible? Give reasons for your answer.
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I believe that God speaks to unbelievers and can choose to reveal any meaning of the Scriptures He wants to reveal in order to draw non-Christians to Himself. However, once you are a follower of Jesus, it is often easier to understand the Bible because your spirit is alive and you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you to help you interpret Biblical truths.
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Yes, I do believe that a person must be born again in order to rightfully understand the Bible. As the lecturer quoted Paul from 1 Corinthians 2:4 “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God for they’re foolishness to Him. Neither can he understand them because they’re spiritually discerned.”
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I do agree. And believe that as Christians our teacher is the Holy Spirit that leads, guides, and gives us an understanding of
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To understand yes but to apply the general principles of the bible I don’t believe that one has to necessary be a Christian to do that. Case in point, the world for decades has monetized biblical principles and passed them off as “original thought” and use them to build world systems. Ecclesiastes 11 talks about a method of trade and diversification of assists. Sounds like financial planners of today to me. In Exodus 18 Jethro told moses to appoint able men over groups of people, sounds like corporate structure.
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Yes because the word says spiritual only can be understood spiritually