How did they cause this extreme paradigm shift in me?
And how are they going to revolutionize your bible reading?
To truly explain what these principles are, let me tell you how I felt when I discovered these principles...
You see, all my life, It was like I was reading the Bible through these thick foggy glasses...
Every time I opened the Bible, the words were there, but they were blurry and distorted, and they often didn't make much sense.
I knew the Bible was important, but I couldn't quite grasp why or how it applied to my life.
These foggy glasses represented years of misunderstandings, oversimplifications, and out-of-context interpretations.
They were smudged with the fingerprints of well-meaning Sunday school teachers, pastors, and authors who, despite their best intentions, had sometimes given me a limited or skewed view of Scripture.
Those foggy glasses blocked my view when I tried to reconcile science with faith...
I remember when I was in college, my childhood buddy Jake said to me:
"James, this Christian thing is not for me."
You see, we were in the same college, and we were roommates…
I remember sitting in our living room, a couple of beers between us, marking what felt like the end of an era.
I felt my stomach drop.
Jake had been my church buddy since we were kids.
We'd grown up in the same congregation, gone to the same youth camps, and asked the same questions.
And now, here he was, walking away from it all.
"James, I just can't reconcile the Bible with what I'm learning in science," he continued…
"It just doesn't add up."
I wanted to argue…
I wanted to defend the faith we'd shared for so long.
But the words stuck in my throat.
Because deep down, I understood.
I'd been wrestling with the same doubts and the same questions that Jake had.
The point is that these are the foggy glasses that most Christians read the bible with.
And they never truly fall in love with the Bible.
It took me over a decade more…