The greatest challenge that a Christian often finds is in choosing between something which you find that the Bible teaches, and something, which life and experience, even logic and common sense seem to teach you.  It is always encouraging, when these two such things are the same.  However, when they are not, that is, where what the Bible teaches is different than what life teaches, the Christian’s choice appears to be simple: Choose the Bible, that is, after carefully checking, interpreting and finding what the Bible really does teach in a given matter.

In the abstract, one would always choose to go with what the Bible teaches; however, in actual, real-life situations it can become quite difficult.  The temptation is always strong to choose what life and experience teach and then to try to change what the Bible does say and means, so as to fit these two together, that is, trying to make the Bible “say” what one really wants to do or believe, in other words, to twist what the Bible says to make it fit.  Peter describes this in 2 Peter 3:16 – “undisciplined and unstable people put the Scriptures on a torture-rack” to distort and force the Bible to say something that is not true.

A study of the Bible in its original Hebrew Tanach Old Testament with Aramaic and the original Koine Greek New Testament with some study of the Septuagint within their context of ancient history will provide the best understanding of theology and the Christian Life and morality.