Someone wrote to me saying that I do not tolerate other's interpretations of the Bible?


THE SERPENT SEED

Q. Someone wrote to me saying that I do not tolerate other's interpretations of the Bible.

My Response:

I do not accept your point about interpretation however. This makes the Bible like a poem where we all sit around and wonder what the author really meant. I do not do this. I open books, get into the Hebrew (as best I can) use the concordance to root out what God wants me to know. Not what I think it means. I will even go so far as to say that Mr. Truth_Child will agree with me on this point. The Bible says what it says, it is not open to interpretation, we must unlock the truth:

Proverbs 25:2
2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
KJV
This does not say to interpret a matter, but to seek it out. There is only one "right" meaning. This is what we debate here.

There is one on this list that keeps telling us how poor Christians we are because of all of our bickering. I disagree, we are all good Christians because we are trying to help others. However there is a time when the debate should stop, and for the most part you will not see me promoting my belief unless someone else attacks it. I stand for something!

I have told people that I do not expect them to change their lifelong beliefs based on what I post.

When I post something, it is up to the reader to take it or leave it.
This is a free world, we have freedom of religion and I respect that.

I don't care if people are waiting for the second coming of Bozo the clown, I may try to point out the error, but I will not push it.

I have made reference to increased understanding of the Bible. This is not a judgment, it is a fact.

I know that the Serpent Seed is among the most hated of beliefs, do you think I stick with it because I like being called all those names and I love being laughed at? Great fun. I have been called names here that I have never been called in my entire life. Just for discussing that which I believe is true.

Do you really think Eve ate a apple? And this lead to a conception? DO YOU? Eve was pregnant before Adam "knew" her. It is written. This is not a point of interpretation, it is believing what is written. I have seen this descirbed in different ways in all the Bibles.
Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
KJV

Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel."
NASU

Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel."
(from New International Version)

Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel."
NKJV

Genesis 3:15
15 and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
ASV

Targum of Palestine
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between the seed of thy son, and the seed of her sons; and it shall be when the sons of the woman keep the commandments of the law, they will be prepared to smite thee upon thy head; but when they forsake the commandments of the law, thou wilt be ready to wound them in their heel.

Targum of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzzel
And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy son and her son. He will remember thee, what thou didst to him (at) from the beginning, and thou shalt be observed unto him at the end.

JPS 1917 (Jewish publication)
3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.

JPS Tanakh (and) The Torah
3:15 I will enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers; They shall strike at your head, And you shall strike at their heel.

The Bible - James Moffatt Translation
3:15 And I will set a feud between you and the woman, between your brood and hers: they strike at your head, and you shall strike at their heel.
Now I have taken time to locate and paste or type in this same verse from 11  different translations (one each for the Tanakh and the Torah). How many different ways must this be written before one understands that the serpent has an offspring? If you ask me, there is no room for intrepretations, it is simply written.

I like the way the Targum spells it out however:

And the woman beheld Sammael, the angel of death, and was afraid; yet she knew that the tree was good to eat, and that it was medicine for the enlightenment of the eyes, and a desirable tree by means of which to understand.
and

And Adam knew Hava his wife, who had desired the Angel; and she conceived, and bare Kain; and she said, I have acquired a man, the Angel of the Lord. And she added to bear from her husband Adam his twin, even Habel.

There is the seed of truth and there are apples!