What Leloaia is basically saying (my 2-cents, and she is beyond my writing/reading skill too at times, she’s awesome!) is that people read into the text of the Bible what isn’t there. The WT is notorious for this! So are a lot of other Christian, religious groups! And the simple message, no matter how unscientific or primitive it is, is not understood or believed, because people try and read into the scriptures what isn’t there, to make it fit preconceived ideas!
What I’ve learned recently is that the Bible is an entirely different book or collection of books/letters from what I was taught to believe while in Witnessdom! The Bible writers themselves, especially those that wrote the so-called, Christian Greek Scriptures, wrote these books/letters long after the events that they describe! And Gospels, like Luke, frankly say that the information contained was gathered from what others have said, and thus were not inspired (please read Luke chapter 1). Even books like Romans, although possibly penned by Paul initially, were rewritten by more astute Greek-writers, possibly Luke (Paul’s Greek was simply terrible at best). At least I can see this now!
Consider the book of Genesis, as another example. There’s nothing there that says regarding the creation event “this is what God says…” “God told me that this is what happened...” No, this isn’t what is presented. The Jewish Priests simply wrote what they thought happened, based, no doubt on secular history from the area they lived in, based on what was then known. There is no indication that God told them what to write, or "inspired" them!
My 2-cents, from a humbler person than what I was as a JW!
