>>100201295>Catholics and the Orthodox Church cherry-picked different parts to create their respective doctrines.This is true, and added contents which were manmade concepts that don't exist in the bible like Rapture and Trinity
>the Bible as a whole is contradictoryHowever, this is false. Contradictions only arise due to the lack of understanding, misinterpretations and inconsistencies with trying to understand the bible. The bible itself repeats the same concepts over and over again using different stories and parables, so it is self-correcting even if there is a single translation error. If you don't understand what "Eating Flesh and Blood of Christ" means, you should at least still be able to try to understand at least one of these: "Eating the scroll", "Spiritual eating and drinking", "True Fasting", "Passover food", "Fruit from the Tree of Life, "Invitation to the Thirsty", "Food served at the banquet", etc. There are many, literally, describing the same thing on repeat. There is no way all of them have translation errors at the same time on all languages on all versions. Even Judaism would be a completely different religion if that were to be the case.
>> The orthodox understanding is that the consequences of Adam are permanentThis is false. God's words are absolute, but not permanent. Covenants expire. Shadows expire. The old order of things passes away.
>Hebrews 8:13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.>Romans 7:6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.We have already been released from the law of sin, but people just don't understand how. A reminder that law = system (like Laws of Physics).
When sin entered through Adam, death entered because God said it would happen, considering circumstances are met, just like in Physics you know things fall to the ground due to gravity.
But death isn't the end, just like things don't always fall to the ground. If there is a new system created like the System of Resurrection (by God), or the System of Avionics (in IRL), you can defy what seemed impossible before. The problem is, people can't build planes if they don't understand the System of Avionics, likewise with the System of Ressurection, you can't have eternal life without knowing the inner makings of the spirit. But God already provided everybody the System of Resurrection in the bible, not just Jesus. If you can understand Jesus in plain language, you can understand the System of Resurrection in plain language. So far, nobody could, because even to this day, people still take Revelation literally rather than symbolically. That's like worshipping math symbols instead of using math symbols to calculate the science behind aerodynamics to build a plane.
Under the System of Sin:
>Romans 3:10-13 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”The one who is righteous will be the one who can wield spiritual symbols like they're math symbols, untangle themselves from the System of Sin and passover to the System of Resurrection. Jesus was a builder, and that's to show you to be like him, spiritually speaking. Not of physical, but of spiritual, just as Jesus didn't build an actual temple in 3 days, he rebuilt his body through wielding spiritual knowledge. Jesus did things physically to represent spiritual concepts; that's why he's going around causing miracles and speaking in figurative language (even being annoyed when people don't get it, some he even explains the meaning of), not only for the purposes of fulfilling prophecies, but also for you to use that as part of learning how to grow spiritual knowledge.
Through the physical things/events in the bible, you can understand God.
>Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.And in case you're wondering, yes, Jesus is a creation (Isaiah 54:5, Colossians 1:15) which you can definitely understand God's divine nature from.
>Hebrews 10:1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.So, do not worship the shadow of things, for the same reason you don't worship math symbols but use them as stepping stones to understanding; do the same with spiritual symbolism as well, do something with it, don't leave it dead.
>James 2:20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?Religion is a science.
