A known problem when trying to live 'according to the Bible', is that there are many version and translations of that famous collection of books. Because the Bible is just that: a collection of books. And the patriarchy decided which books to leave out because they were displeasing to them.
Left out Bible books contradict the story of Genesis, give details about the early life of Jesus church leaders don't want their sheep to know about, because apparently little Jesus was known for his capricious acts. The early church leaders left out Bible books that give details on historical events that don't fit the narrative they invented but also tell interesting tales about angels.
The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden contain quite a bit of writings that would unsettle evangelicals and a lot of other christians from any of the 45,000+ denominiations of christianity and the 7 main denominations of Judaism. Believers would seriously question their church leaders and the church leaders would not like that.
So, if you got married 'according to the Bible', do you have 1,000 partners just like Salomon (1 Kings 11:3)? Or a wife, a concubine and a male lover like King David? Or a relationship like Lot had with his daughters? Who together fathered the founders of the tribes Moabites and Ammonites?
And did you know the Moabites once defeated the people of the tribe of Israel?
I could go on and on and on. But the point is clear, I think: many people who call themselves 'christians' have no idea of what's actually in the Bible - let alone what's in the books their leaders left out on purpose - because they blindly believe (...) what their leaders order them to believe.
If you call yourself a true christian, you're probably reading this from a prison cell. Because you killed your neigbour for washing his car on Sunday 'because anyone working on the Sabbath shall be killed', as ordered to you in Exodus 35:2.
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