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Am I reading the Bible without error?

  Am I reading the Bible without error?   (To begin) Why do believers read the Bible? The answer to this is likely to seek salvation. Therefore, they realize that their perspective on the Bible is truly important. Many churches today hold the view that the world was originally a perfect creation, but it became this way because Adam misused the free will God gave him. They explain that God created a perfect world and intended to dwell forever with Adam and Eve, who offered Him praise, worship, and adoration starting from the Garden of Eden, while He communed with them. However, because Adam and Eve misused their free will and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, this vision was broken, and God had no choice but to destroy the world. Consequently, they believe that God's people perform good deeds with a good heart, aiming to change the world and, furthermore, transform the evil world into the Kingdom of God. However, believers must realize that ...
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Regarding Heresy in the Church

  Regarding Heresy in the Church   1 Corinthians 11:13-14: "Judge for yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him?"   This implies that in the church, if a man prayed with long hair like a woman, and a woman prayed without covering her head, it would be considered strange — even from an instinctive perspective — in that era. Paul invokes these historical circumstances and human nature to explain the relationship between men and women within Christ.   He argues that covering the head or having long hair symbolizes the Mediator who covers sin. Through a metaphor of real life, Paul explains that all humans are spirits who have sinned in the Kingdom of God, and that salvation is impossible without the mediation of Christ.   He asserts that while there may be many debates regarding men and women in the church, arguing without understa...
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Let the woman have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels.

  Let the woman have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels.   1 Corinthians 11:10: "Therefore let the woman have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels (dia δι ὰ )."   The word dia ( δι ὰ ), translated as "because of," means "through" or "because of." The woman symbolizes the fallen angel, and the head symbolizes the man (Christ). This means that all people placed in this world are women, and the man is Christ, who is there to save the woman. Therefore, although men and women are separated, they become one in Christ. Ephesians 5:31-32: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is profound, as I speak concerning Christ and the church." Man, as the first man (Christ), leaves his parents (God) and becomes one flesh (the sinful body destined to die and the resurrected body of eternal life) with his wife (the fallen ang...
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The head of the man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man.

  The head of the man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man.   1 Corinthians 11:1-3: "Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. I commend you because in all things you remember me and keep the traditions I handed down to you. But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God."   The word "mimetai" ( μιμητα ί ) is translated as "imitate" in English. It says to become imitators of me (Paul), but the translator incorrectly translated it as "I become an imitator of Christ." It means, "Just as I (Paul) have become the possession of Christ, you too must become imitators of me." Therefore, it means that you too must become the possession of Christ.   If a saint follows the example of Christ, they will have accomplished everything that Christ did. The saint dies together on the cross in Christ, rises together, and is seated in the heavenly places.   ...
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Some tested the Lord and perished by snakes.

  Some tested the Lord and perished by snakes.   1 Corinthians 10:9-11: “ Some of them tested the Lord and perished by snakes. Let us not test (epeirasan) as they did. Some of them grumbled and perished by the destroyer. Do not grumble as they did. These things happened to them as examples, and they were written to warn us who live in the last days. ”   This content is from Numbers chapter 21. The cause of their destruction was testing God and grumbling. God had the Israelites depart from Mount Hor and travel along the Red Sea route, bypassing the land of Edom. They complained to God, asking why He made them take a detour when they could have reached Canaan by going straight without the detour, and there was nothing to eat in the wilderness. Consequently, God sent fiery serpents to bite the people, resulting in the death of many Israelites from snake bites. When the devil tempted Jesus, in the second temptation, he said that if Jesus jumped from the roof of a buil...
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