There is general agreement among Christians as to which books were inspired by God, the disagreements among Christians are over interpretation. The Catholic church has sacred tradition which is how their scholars have interpreted the Bible. The protestants rejected sacred tradition, but protestant churches have each developed their own sacred tradition. Like the Catholics they believe their own interpretation of the Bible has the same authority as the Bible.
All interpretations of the Bible should be evaluated based on their consistency with the Bible regardless of the credentials of the person who developed them, regardless of when they were developed, and regardless of how consistent they are with other interpretations.
The following is a new interpretation of the Bible that is more consistent with the Bible than what is taught by the Catholics, the Orthodox or the Protestants.
Why God Created the World.
First, God intentionally created a world of good and evil, so He go with us in our life’s journey. God did this to experience sorrow, loneliness and many other emotions through us. God feels what we feel. To know sorrow is to understand love, and this understanding would be essential to a righteous God.
Satan is Still in Heaven
Satan and the demons were intentionally not given any righteousness. It is these evil spirits who bring us into existence. They influence us causing us to sin to result in our eventual death. Evil spirits do this to grieve God, and they do it without committing a sin themselves. Satan is not so stupid as to openly battle God, so Satan is still in Heaven.
Satan cannot harm God other than causing God to grieve over us. By doing this, the devil does precisely what God wanted him to do, but righteousness must prevail in the end. This means that God must expose the hidden hatred of Satan, and God must redeem all the good humans.
The Justice of God Destroys Evil, and It Also Punishes Sin, and Rewards Righteousness
The Day of Judgment is when God destroys all evil.
Goodness is rewarded, and sin is punished before the Day of Judgment in what is called temporal judgment. Everything we do is subject to both temporal judgment and the Day of Judgment. These two different applications of justice are both essential in God’s response to suffering, and these two different applications of justice explain some of the confusion in the Bible concerning heaven, hell, judgment and being saved. Sometimes the Bible is talking about temporal judgment.
The Trinity
God the Father transcends time and space. God the Holy Spirit is a consciousness of God moving in time in Heaven. God the Son is a consciousness of God moving in time at a level of reality that transcends Heaven. God the Son was born into the world as a human named Jesus. He lived and died, rose from the dead and returned to the transcending level of Heaven which is called the Right Hand of God.
The Explanation for the Trinity had to be Kept Secret
Jesus said on the cross, “My God, why have you abandoned me?” God looked away from the crucifixion, and Satan openly cursed God not knowing that Jesus transcends Heaven. Satan and the demons are all thereby condemned as Jesus is a witness against them. This is what caused the suffering of Christ on the cross.
How Jesus Redeems Us
On the Day of Judgment, Jesus will lay down His body and this will allow the children of God to do the same. There is a great abundance of separation in the Bible often associated with redemption. Redemption by separation should be obvious, but the Gnostics were sent as a distraction. Our spirit is perfect and without sin. The flesh is not evil, it is weak. It is a straw in the wind easily influence by spiritual forces, and the flesh is absolutely attached to the spirit. The oneness of spirit and flesh is why the Messiah is necessary to justify their separation.
Sometimes when the Bible speaks of the righteous, or those who do only good, it is speaking of the spirit within us, which, thanks to Christ, is judged separately. This understanding also clears up some confusion in the Bible.
