How I Interpret the New Testament of the Bible

This posting continues yesterday’s discussion on the teaching of Jesus Christ in the New Testament of the Bible. As I said yesterday, the teachings of Jesus are of a divine origin. This means that the presence of Jesus Christ in our world was the presence of a one and infinite God in our world. Only spiritual atoms and a new creation theory are able to recognize the eternal need for this presence. I divided the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament into two audiences. One audience would be called the blue collar audiences of the Jewish culture, as we would call them today. The second audience would be the intellectual leaders of the Jewish and Greek culture. The writings of Paul, John, and Thomas represent Jesus’ scientific teachings whereas the other writers in the New Testament represent moral teachings.

To blue collar audiences, Jesus used the literal language of the audiences because these teachings apply mostly to morals or rights. In the US Declaration of Independence, the founders identified moral philosophy with the Laws of Nature’s God. To intellectual audiences, Jesus used a metaphoric language because these teachings apply mostly to science and technical audiences. In the US Declaration of Independence, the founders identified natural philosophy to the Laws of Nature. So, the founders aligned the founding of the USA to Jesus Christ rather than to Christianity. To the founders, Christianity had too many divisions and not enough natural philosophers.

The interpretations of scriptures have not considered the fact that all sensual data found in written materials are symbolic. This was not know until the 1920s. So, perfect interpretations of ancient scriptures are not possible. This fact should draw all national leaders together to identify and solve this linguistic problem.