Why can't everyone understand the Bible?

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Those that read the Bible, rarely do they agree on what the Bible's message actually is. Why is that? Why didn't God make the Bible easy to understand for everyone? The Bible holds the key to the answer to this question right?

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2timothy316 wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:51 pm Those that read the Bible, rarely do they agree on what the Bible's message actually is. Why is that? Why didn't God make the Bible easy to understand for everyone? The Bible holds the key to the answer to this question right?
Can you show one example of what is difficult to understand?
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1213 wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:44 am
2timothy316 wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:51 pm Those that read the Bible, rarely do they agree on what the Bible's message actually is. Why is that? Why didn't God make the Bible easy to understand for everyone? The Bible holds the key to the answer to this question right?
Can you show one example of what is difficult to understand?
Really....you need examples...? There are countless websites, including the one you're on right now, where people use different scriptures to explain their ideas which then in turn conflict with someone else's ideas and scriptures. Why isn't the Bible clear and easy to understand?

For your examples just take a look at the titles of topics on this and other forums. Take your pick from: the trinity, what happens when we die, are we living in the last days, do we have freewill, what is murder...if the Bible was clear and easy to understand we wouldn't have all these differing opinions. There would be no forums like this one. I wouldn't even have to ask the question. However, this topic is not about singling anyone thing out, its a collective question about why doesn't the Bible clearly address everything.
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2timothy316 wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:51 pm Those that read the Bible, rarely do they agree on what the Bible's message actually is. Why is that? Why didn't God make the Bible easy to understand for everyone? The Bible holds the key to the answer to this question right?

It is because they do not
have the anointing within them.

From your own bible.
1 John 2:27
But the anointing which ye
have received of him abideth in you,
and ye need not that any man teach you:
but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,
and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you,
ye shall abide in him.

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2timothy316 wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:04 am ...Take your pick from: the trinity, ...
The word Trinity is not in the Bible, so it is not a Biblical problem.
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