The Bible should be updated, else it might lose its essence and true interpretation in time

Good to be back scribing again, I really apologize for the hiatus I took, let us say it’s been a really engaging month, but I am back. true story. The idea, I am going to be diving into its ocean is one I have had in mind for a long time, the “how will people take it” syndrome  got the best of me but here we are in this pit, get your oxygen mask and best have a web feet as we dive in.

The scribing of the Holy Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit, when I think about this and the way I see it, it must have been true, because almost every situation you can be in prolly has a reference in the Holy Bible, even something as silly as “the salary of a prostitute”, the answer the Holy Bible will give might not be straight forward or might not suffice but your situation can’t just elude the grasp of the Holy Bible, have you met Pastors before? Such scribing, aged 2000+ years, with such grasp on everything, even 2000+ years after, must have been scribed with the help of an external force. 

As powerful as the book is, I feel it should be updated, why? “Bible” itself in the dictionary, after its meaning as the Christian’s book, also means a “manual” like the one that comes with your phone, yah that is your phone’s bible. The Bible is meant to be our manual on how to live our lives as a Christian or even as an human being in general but to me some of the Bible's scribings seem rooted to the “past-history” the bible was scribed over 2000-3000+ years ago, if we are including, scrolls, read in the synagogues as a variant or the foundation of the Holy Bible.

3000+ is really a long time you see, the Holy Bible was scribed with its then-present history, that it included what was happening and the  culture of Rome, Egypt, Israel etc. as at that time, as much as we have given the Holy Bible the supreme authority over morality, it is to be noted that some of the things in the Holy Bible that were recorded as events then, were human made, like it happened purely because of human interaction and relationship for example tax collection, chosen occupation etc. without the intervention of what God wanted or did not want, human themselves formed their ways of live, like how to build their houses (except holy places), technology, businesses etc. 

Why I am saying all these is because the Holy Bible, rightly so, has attained a position as the supreme moral authority for us all. But 2000-3000+ years is very different from now, so it seems improper if we judge some of the present happenings on the basis of 2000-3000+ events just because they made it to the Bible. I got into an argument with someone about what a man and a woman can do in marriage or the rights they both have in marriage. His opinion was that the man in his own right (backed by the Bible) can have extra affairs and marry more than one wife but the woman is not allowed to, in the Holy Bible the likes of Abraham, Solomon and David all have many wives and it was not noted that God was angry or did not love them because of that, but women were never allowed to have more than one husband. That women were seen or portrayed as “property” -Man ‘love’ your wife, wife ‘submit’ to your husband- according to him a man, in his nature, can still love a single woman and still cheat on her without his love for her diminishing but a woman cannot or should not do that. Well, some are of this school of thought. You need to watch “The Viking” to fully understand what I am saying.

My point was that people like Abraham, Solomon and David were permitted to have many wives then because their culture allowed for it, just like when our fathers and forefathers in Nigeria here had many wives because they needed many children for their farms and chosen occupations, at the time sticking to one wife was not only bad for you as a farmer or whatnot it was not in vogue, you are not “Man” enough if you have just one wife. I do not think we will then go as far as saying most of our fathers and forefathers are all in hell because they had many wives, of course not. But my opinion is that these things should not be seen as right just because they have appeared in the Bible.

God never explicitly condemned or supported polygamous marriage, rules like 10 commandants explicitly showed what God wanted and what he doesn’t, like the issue of homosexuality the Holy Bible lucidly showed that God condemned it, this has nothing to do with our culture or our “rights” as human, God doesn’t support it. David was punished when he peeped at a naked woman, loved her and set up her husband to die just to marry her but he was never reproached for having many wives. Does this mean that God supported polygamy but not adultery? Off-the-cuff, I tied it down to their culture and what it permits (polygamy) but that God explicitly hated adultery (do not do it). So, I approached someone I believe is a bible scholar, we are lucky to have him as an author on this blog, y’all will know him soon. 

He told me about the “progressive-revelation” nature of the Holy Bible, that is God revealed his plans to us in stages and not once, a progressive nature that found termination in Christ, that is, you need to be well versed in the Bible to fully understand God’s plan, he explained how the intent of God for man was and still is monogamy, starting from Adam and Eve through to the “marriage” between Christ and his single bride -the church, after all we are meant to be Christ-like as Christians and as human. According to him the mere fact that the Holy Bible did not explicitly condemn polygamy then does not mean it was God’s plan for us as humans but he revealed his plan for us progressively, before it found its termination in Christ. Still the fact still remains that more than 70% of Christians do not understand the Holy Bible this way, I don’t. I know most of us have been in an argument and you hear “is it in the Bible?” such is the position the Holy Bible has taken. I am not challenging this position, if you have read the book before, Christian or not, you’d be a fool to challenge its position, same goes for the Holy Qur’an. Being an authority, sentence like “Man ‘love’ your wife, wife ‘submit’ to your husband” can be interpreted literally by many that God intended that only the man should love the woman and the woman should not love but only be submissive to the man, just because it is written like that in the Holy Bible without regards for any antecedents or the situation that led to it, again have you met pastors before?

Which is why I feel the Bible should be updated because even if the Holy Bible has answers to everything hidden in it. It should be explicitly updated to cover some contemporary issues like racism, marriage, gender equality etc. since everything that makes it to the pages of the Holy Bible is seen as an authority. Like the 10 commandments and God stance on homosexually is explicit enough to understand but not on marriage, racism and gender equality, you need some level of Bible scholarship and spirituality to understand God’s stance on them, well most of us are not on that level, are we? Moreover, the Holy Bible was updated from scrolls and the catholic Holy Bible is more than the normal Holy Bible, even some scripts that were meant to be in the Holy Bible have been lost in time. Finally, I feel some Bible worthy events have occurred too.

Phew, what a long swim, yeah? I hope it was worth your time and you see reason in my nonsense or not, it doesn’t matter it is the Daniel’s Pit nothing is harmful. So, that is me for now. Hope to be back soon with some rumblings that have decided not to leave my jobless brain.