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Yeah I clearly read this the wrong way. That is my bad. > "divinely inspired" is meaningless. As for "so easy a child can understand it", what's your basis for

Yeah I clearly read this the wrong way. That is my bad. > "divinely inspired" is meaningless. As for "so easy a child can understand it", what's your basis for saying so? It’s been a minute but “so easy a child can understand it” is out of the New Testament. The other stuff - I heard it growing up religious. It’s pretty common language you hear from pastors, etc. At least in the world I was forced to live in. Thank you for your perspective. Honestly. Not snarky.

hn_acker 3y ago
> It’s been a minute but “so easy a child can understand it” is out of the New Testament. > The other stuff - I heard it growing up religious. It’s pretty common language you hear from pastors, etc. Might have been the Old Testament, but I did learn something new. Psalms 119:130 in the American Standard Version [1]: > The opening of thy words giveth light; > It giveth understanding unto the simple. (Other translations say "childlike" instead of or in addition to "simple" [2].) In my previous comment, I thought that the average child would need someone to explain Bible verses in simpler terms, but I was probably wrong to think so. A child who doesn't understand all of the formal words in the average will still grasp the context clues enough to understand the lessons that the words teach. Whether the word "camel" was a mistranslation of "rope", a child will still understand that rich people who go to heaven will leave behind their material possessions. On a separate note, I shouldn't have written something as vague (or even meaningless) as > "divinely inspired" is meaningless. in my previous comment. What I should have written was: the extent to which the Bible is "divinely inspired" has little to do with how easy-to-understand the Bible is, unless by "divinely inspired" you meant that God intended for the Bible to be easy to understand. [1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+119%3A130&version=ASV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+119%3A13... [2] https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Psalm%20119:130 https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Psalm%20119:130

hn_acker 3y ago

> It’s been a minute but “so easy a child can understand it” is out of the New Testament. > The other stuff - I heard it growing up religious. It’s pretty common language you hear from pastors, etc. Might have been the Old Testament, but I did learn something new. Psalms 119:130 in the American Standard Version [1]: > The opening of thy words giveth light; > It giveth understanding unto the simple. (Other translations say "childlike" instead of or in addition to "simple" [2].) In my previous comment, I thought that the average child would need someone to explain Bible verses in simpler terms, but I was probably wrong to think so. A child who doesn't understand all of the formal words in the average will still grasp the context clues enough to understand the lessons that the words teach. Whether the word "camel" was a mistranslation of "rope", a child will still understand that rich people who go to heaven will leave behind their material possessions. On a separate note, I shouldn't have written something as vague (or even meaningless) as > "divinely inspired" is meaningless. in my previous comment. What I should have written was: the extent to which the Bible is "divinely inspired" has little to do with how easy-to-understand the Bible is, unless by "divinely inspired" you meant that God intended for the Bible to be easy to understand. [1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+119%3A130&version=ASV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+119%3A13... [2] https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Psalm%20119:130 https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Psalm%20119:130