The Bible Beyond the Words

by Fred Snider

Is the Bible hard for you to understand? Do the contradictions trouble you? If you answered yes to either or both of those questions, you are in good company. Virtually everyone has difficulty understanding the Bible. And many are troubled by the seeming contradictions. In The Bible beyond the Words, Fred Snider reveals the solutions to both of these problems by digging beyond the writers' words to the deeper meanings of which Christ himself is the author. There is a message in the fact that God carved the Ten Commandments in stone. They are forever unchangeable. The doctrine of Christ-which in principle includes the ancient, Old Testament narratives-is a different story. It was cast in living spirit and calculated to grow with time and humanity's growing body of knowledge. After nearly two millennia of Christianity, most of its adherents have yet to recognize the excellent wisdom of Jesus's course of action. They are still trying to set in stone what he intended to be expandable to accommodate our growth. Consequently, we are still in the infancy of our understanding of his Gospel, operating under a vast cloud of immature interpretations.

264 pages, Hardcover

Published September 6, 2016