What The Popular Bible Versions Don't Tell You: The Accurately Translated Bible's UNIQUE Worldview
What Most English Bible versions don't tell you...
12 Unique Characteristics of a Worldview Based On the Accurately Translated Bible, That Make It Superior To All Other Worldviews
A short excerpt from the book Hell Is A Mistranslation by Marc Speed
At the end of this article I will present to you twelve unique characteristics of a worldview based on the accurately translated Bible, which together set it apart from every other worldview in the world – and in my opinion, make it superior to all others. You will have to judge for yourself whether you agree with me. Before I list the 12 unique characteristics, I need to give you a little bit of explanation so that you understand them when you read them. For the short version, click play.
The key to the twelve unique characteristics I'll list in this article is unraveling a few blatant mistranslations that are found in many popular English Bible versions. So first I'm going to talk a little bit about worldviews in general (and how to go about forming a complete one), and along the way I'm going to reveal what's wrong with most popular Bible versions. Then I'll reveal the 12 Unique Characteristics of a Worldview Based On the Accurately Translated Bible That Make It Superior To All Others.
3 Groups of People In the World
Most people don’t have a fully formed worldview. They just get along by going along, without giving much thought to where we came from or where we are going, or for how/if the world’s problems can/will be solved.
Some people have a partly-formed worldview. This would include many people who may be religious, but parts of their worldview don’t make logical sense (or in the case of atheism, offer little hope that mankind will ever be able to fix its own problems, thus dooming us to perpetual exploitation by the rich and powerful until the universe expands to the point where life is no longer possible and we all cease to exist). Because it is difficult to press past the barrier of “what I believe doesn’t make complete sense or offer a full/true solution” (and because doing so would require them to leave their comfort zone, admit they were wrong, or leave behind what they grew up believing), they stay “stuck” without ever really figuring out the answers to the difficult questions they have.
Then there is a third group of people, a small minority of the human population, who really want to know the answers to the three great mysteries of life: “Where did we come from?”, “Where are we going?”, and “How can the world’s problems ever be fixed?” People who fall into this category are willing to spend significant amounts of time trying to find logical answers to these questions. I assume you wouldn’t be reading this unless you’re one of these. You are the truth-seekers for whom I do what I do. I don’t expect all of you to agree with me, but I do expect to give you something to think about, and I believe what I have to say is logical enough that I may convince many of you to agree with me on many things.
So before I reveal the twelve characteristics that set a worldview based on the accurately-translated Bible apart, let’s talk about what a person must do to go about forming a logical, complete worldview.
How To Form a Complete Worldview
All worldviews can be divided into “God-based” or “non-God-based” categories. “Do I believe in God?” is the first decision every person must make in deciding what they believe about the origin and meaning of life, the future of the human race, and what must happen to fix all of mankind’s terrible problems. I won’t go into great detail on this subject here as I do in other articles on this site; for the purposes of this article let me just say two things about it.
First, it requires exactly the same amount of faith (belief in the unseen) to believe in atheism/evolution as it does to believe in God. Atheist evolutionists don’t know where the matter that makes up the universe came from, and God-believers don’t know where God came from. Both groups are starting from the same place: faith in the unseen/unknown.
Second, after listening extensively to both sides of the evolution vs. creation argument, it became apparent to me that although each side is looking at the exact same information, they come to opposite conclusions. How can this be?
Simple. It’s because each side believes what they want to believe. Many atheist evolutionists and scientists (and other thinking people) don't want to believe in God, because they understandably despise the “God’s plan for mankind is a tragic ending for most people” versions of God they are presented with by the major religions. On the other hand, creationist Christians (for example) want to believe in God because many or most of them have had what they believe are personal experiences with God, and/or (in the case of Christians, for example) they relate to what they believe is the beauty, wisdom, and logic of the Bible’s moral code. Other religious people also want to believe in God because (among other reasons which might exist which I know little about because I am not one of them) that is what they grew up learning (this reason applies to many Christians too)
For all members of all these groups, it’s not fun to admit or explore the possibility that “I may be completely wrong about my beliefs” because it feels like admitting “I’ve been stupid”. This is why many Christians and other religious people never think through all the ramifications of their belief system, especially the part where most of mankind is burned and tortured forever (or has some other type of tragic ending such as reincarnation as a cow). Because this is terrible to think about and seems to make no sense (wouldn’t a God who is able to bring us into existence have a better plan? and why would He even bring us into existence if He knew that would be our end?), most God-believers largely avoid this part of their belief systems in their thought life, and most religious preachers avoid preaching about it.
Those preachers who do preach about it simply expose to more scrutiny the seeming ridiculousness of the idea that a loving God would create mankind knowing beforehand that most of His creations would have an eternally tragic/tortuous ending.
In practice, members of both camps (God-based and non-God-based worldviews), by and large, simply keep on believing what they grew up believing. Changing one’s worldview is hard to do, because it requires saying “I was wrong” – which no one likes to do. A hard-core truth-seeker must often be willing to press past what their family, their social group, and other large groups of people say, to find the answers to the parts of their worldviews that don’t make logical sense. It requires rebelling against the status quo that surrounds them, which most people are not willing to do. But I can say from personal experience that the rewards are well worth it.
Once you have decided whether you believe in God or not, there is a next step. If you decide you don’t believe in God, the next step is to try to figure out a way to help mankind fix their own problems. Good luck with that. (We’ve had many thousands of years to do it, I ain’t holdin’ my breath.) If, on the other hand, you are like me and decide you do believe in the existence of God (or gods), the next question is, “Who is God (or gods)?” All the religions can’t be right. Either only one of them is right (and the rest are wrong), or none of them is right. Or, maybe one of them is partly right.
In my research I have come to the conclusion that one religion is partly right. If you read my article 5 Logical Reasons I Pay Attention To The Bible in the God & Science sectin of this website, you will learn why I believe the accurately translated Bible was actually inspired by God and is a trustworthy account of how life came to be (the past) and of how all of humanity’s problems will eventually be fixed (the future). And in my other articles you can discover why it is so important to translate the Bible accurately - it eliminates the pagan-originated ideas of conscious death and eternal punishment which are artificially-inserted through mistranslation of several different Greek and Hebrew words. (See my E-Book Hell Is A Mistranslation for details.)
Interpreting Genesis 1 and the geneologies in the Bible accurately also eliminates the main beef secular science has with the Bible’s account of creation – the rigid “6,000-year-history” of earth to which many Christians unnecessarily cling.
The power of a worldview based on an accurately translated Bible is that it not only is the only “holy book” that has actual proof that it was inspired by God (telling the future accurately many times without a miss so far), but it also eliminates the two main problems atheists have with God (God is a torturing monster, & the 6,000-year-old universe), while at the same time eliminating the two main confusions God-believing people have (“Which religion has logical proof that their God is real?” and “Why would God create billions of people knowing beforehand that most of them would end up burning in agony forever?”).
A worldview based on the accurately translated Bible is the only one based on writings that contain logical proof that they were inspired by God and it is the only one that logically solves each camps’ dilemmas about God and life.
Most religious people rarely consider if there is any logical proof that their god is who he says he is. And most Christians, even though their “holy book” is the only one which actually has logical proof behind its claimed divine inspiration, never think about why God would create people and place them in a system where He knew beforehand they would end up burning and screaming for trillions of years.
Then there are the atheists, the agnostics, or the thinking “I-don’t-know-ers”. Many if not most of these people can’t stomach the thought that God exists as the traditional religions say He does because the ultimate plans these religions claim their gods have for mankind, seem absurd. To such people, the resurrection of Christ or my friend’s ear being healed instantly and miraculously (yes, it really happened), must be brushed off as the imaginings of ignorant, weak, and/or weak-minded people who “need” religion. Even though atheists can’t explain how the Bible foretold the future so many times so accurately without missing, or why Jesus' disciples would die horrible painful deaths as martyrs for a "resurrection scam" they had come up with, or how my friend’s ear got healed in an instant, they still want to reject the thought that God exists because they've been told by the religions that God will burn and torture most of mankind forever.
The 3 Choices For Believing In God
The bottom line is, thinking people in both camps are ultimately stumped by the question, “If God did exist, why would He be a torturing monster – wouldn’t He have a better plan than that?” Thinking people seem to be stuck with only two choices:
1) The religious choice: believe that God is real but He will cause most of His most precious creations to be burned and tortured for eternity (or some other variety of tragic ending for most of mankind, such as reincarnation as a cow, etc.).
2) The atheist choice: believe that God doesn’t exist.
What I am offering to you and laying before you to test and analyze yourself, is a third possibility, based on accurate, consistent translations of the Hebrew/Greek words that end up in our English Bibles as “hell” & “forever”. (See my E-Book Hell Is A Mistranslation to learn about the accurate translations of the words that end up as “hell” and “forever/forever-and-ever/eternal/everlasting” in most English Bibles.)
This third possibility to choose from is:
3) The logical choice: God exists, but He will not burn anybody forever, rather He has a great plan for all mankind. Specifically this worldview is based on both science and an accurate translation of certain key words in the Bible (which eliminates eternal punishment and some problems with science from the Bible).
You can read my E-Book Hell Is A Mistranslation for a detailed explanation of God’s ultimate plan for humanity as revealed by the accurately translated Bible. But let me briefly give you the essence of it here.
This “3rd choice” worldview based on the accurately translated Bible says that God is working His plan of the ages (Greek “eons”), each age or “eon” being a stage in mankind’s education, which culminates at the consummation of the ages (1 Cor. 15:20-28) at which point all mankind will have been judged/corrected by God and will have learned to operate correctly (in love, without hurting each other) so we all can eventually live “happily ever after” (my phrase - the Bible calls it "God all in all" - see 1 Cor. 15:28) in immortal bodies (the word “immortal” is translated correctly in the NT). At this point God will be “all in all” and we will all live in love, peace, and prosperity with each other without hurting each other. In other words, the deepest desires of mankind will be fulfilled because God will have trained us to live the way He originally designed us to live - in love.
The accurately translated Bible reveals that the current age or "eon" in which we live is the most difficult one, where mankind is being temporarily allowed (and even encouraged and accelerated through the work of Satan which God allows in this age) to try all sorts of stupid things that don’t end up working very well. In this age, everything ends up being ruined by selfishness (for example, “democracy” ends up as just another tool for exploitation by the rich and powerful who simply use it as a smokescreen to deceive the masses into thinking they choose their leaders). This is all part of God’s plan to teach us through experience that we are not smarter than Him.
It all makes perfect sense when you think about it. I mean, put yourself in God's shoes. Before God even created humans He knew beforehand that they would want to try to live in ways other than how He designed them to live – just like any father who brings kids into this world knows that eventually the kids are going to have to learn to make their own choices, and many times they will make stupid ones, from which they’ll hopefully learn to live wisely. The accurately-translated Bible reveals that God is simply getting this “what doesn’t work” lesson over with as quickly as possible in this age. Although it seems like a long time to us, is seventy years of our lifetimes or several thousand years really that long compared to say, billions of years of subsequent happiness?
It obviously takes much longer for God to let billions of humans go through a "trying it our own way, Dad is stupid" phase than it takes for one or two children to go through their "teenage/young adult stupidity" phase - but the principle is exactly the same.
This worldview, because of its emphasis on translating the Bible accurately (which removes the pagan influence on the common English versions of the Bible that causes certain words to be translated in an absurd manner in the case of “hell” for example), suddenly becomes the only worldview where everything God does makes perfect sense. Suddenly the only “holy book” that has proof it was inspired by God, also reveals a God who has a GOOD plan for ALL mankind. Suddenly many, many dilemmas about God and the Bible that plague Christians and seem to have no logical answer (predestination, how God could throw people in hell who never heard Jesus’ name even though the Bible says they can’t believe without hearing it, etc. etc.) are solved logically and with astounding simplicity.
And suddenly Bible verses that blatantly contradict the false (artificially inserted through inaccurate translation) and nonsensical (impossible-to-figure-out-why-God-would-do-such-a-thing) doctrine of eternal punishment, are shown to mean exactly what they say instead of having to be explained away in an illogical fashion. Such verses include 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 which declares that everyone will get an immortal body eventually (believers in this age just get theirs sooner) and that death will be completely abolished so that God will be “all in all”, and 1 Timothy 4:10 which declares plainly, “Jesus is the Savior of all mankind, especially of believers”.
If you are a Christian and this is the first article of mine you are reading, please read my E-Book Hell Is A Mistranslation before judging this issue. You will discover, for example, that the Bible’s two fire-events everyone is so scared of, when the different words are translated accurately and good interpretation principles applied, are clearly shown to be physical fires that kill or burn the physical dead bodies of physical human beings – they not “spirit fires” of pagan invention.
This worldview, by translating the Bible accurately, uniquely recognizes a God and a Bible that both make perfect sense. Religions, including most of Christianity which relies on partially mistranslated (due to leftover pagan influence) English Bible versions, have neither.
Atheists may believe their worldview makes perfect sense (assuming they have no trouble believing by faith that the material that makes up the universe brought itself into existence somehow and that DNA/life can spontaneously assemble itself and that beings can somehow grow their own new body parts at will) – but the atheism/evolution combo (in addition to the three massive logical problems I just mentioned) offers no realistic solution to mankind’s problems. Thousands of years of history have proven that mankind is incapable of fixing its own problems.
The accurately translated Bible, on the other hand, teaches that God, our designer will eventually fix us and teach us to live the way He designed us to live: full of love for each other. He will do this partly by using thousands of years of human failure in trying a whole bunch of things that contradict the way He designed us to operate, to teach us when we can look back on it later; as they say, “hindsight is 20:20”.
A Unique Worldview
This worldview is unique in that not only does it offer logical proof that God exists (Biblical writers foretelling the future with astounding accurately many times without fail so far), it also offers an eventual (and the only viable/conceivable) solution for mankind’s two biggest problems, death and corruption. (Corruption is humanity’s propensity to hurt each other to gain an advantage, what the Bible calls “sin”).
This worldview has a logical explanation for the sufferings of this age, which is something the “traditional religious” worldviews don’t have. According to this worldview, we are in the most difficult age right now when mankind is being allowed to try every alternate way apart from how we were designed to operate, and see the consequences in living color – BUT thankfully, this age will not last forever.
The pain of this age (and the consequences of mankind's failure) are not nearly as bad as religion makes them out to be. When you get the accurate translations in front of you and do a careful Biblical study, you see that death=unconsciousness, not “hell” or “suffering”. (Ecclesiastes 9:5 says “the dead know nothing”; Jesus, Paul, and the OT talk of death as “sleep”; Jesus & Paul talk of being with the Lord at death but not consciously, etc.). Since death is a temporary, merciful, fair, and humane result of operating incorrectly ("sin", hurting yourself and others), and not a state of suffering, it is not such a big deal anymore.
With this perspective, the sufferings and problems of this age pale in comparison to the “happily ever after” in much the same way that an 8-year-old’s misbehavior and resulting punishment (for example, she disobeys by playing with a hot stove and burns herself and therefore is not able or allowed to go to a party that weekend) pales in comparison to the rewards reaped by the lessons learned when that girl is a successful, wise 30-year-old who through painful experience has learned not to touch a hot stove.
Some may point out that many people suffer in this age through no fault of their own. That is part of the lesson that mankind must learn – we must be so careful about our actions because they have the potential to not only hurt ourselves, but others too, and the ramifications can multiply for years and be passed down for generations. And what about sickness, disease, and natural disasters etc. – things that seem to be no one’s fault? Well, the Bible says that the first time humanity operated incorrectly and rejected God’s wisdom and design (when Adam and Eve sinned), the door was opened for all sorts of negative circumstances to enter the earth which never had power to affect humans before. Why would God allow this?
Again, it is all part of the lesson that doing things the way God designed us to do them, in complete reliance on His instructions, works well, while sin (ignoring His operating manual) has devastating consequences. Some consequences are immediate and direct upon the person who operates against how he was designed to operate, while some are less-immediate and may only affect others, or our descendants, etc. (I’m not saying that someone who knows how to operate the right principles, use wisdom, and extend faith toward God cannot live a healthy life, it’s just recognizing that in this age very few will go through their lives completely sickness-free or pain-free.) (A side note, if you’re wondering why God allows natural disasters like earthquakes or hurricanes, I hope to come out with an article about that soon.)
It is a painful process for humanity to go through, to get the stupidity (sin) out of our system. It is very painful for God to watch, just as it is painful for a parent to watch their 20-yr-old child making stupid decisions and reaping the natural consequences. But it is a necessary stage in the formation of a wise population who can make good decisions consistently. God must let humanity try other ways besides His way, in order for us to eventually see once and for all that only His way (the original operating manual of love, wisdom, and reliance on God and His instructions) has good results. Once we’ve all been living happily in immortal bodies without hurting each other in incredible prosperity for a few million years, no one is going to begrudge God allowing us to go through a few thousand years of pain in order to learn how to live this way together.
So according to the accurately-translated Bible there is a logical reason in God’s mind for the sufferings of this age. It is really nothing any parent couldn't understand. It is the primary painful “learning from experience” age of human history. God’s plan for the ages (Greek “eons” – this word “eons” is all over the Greek New Testament manuscripts but you’d hardly know it by reading most English Bibles) really is going to work. Pain is often the best teacher. God is allowing this pain – sometimes strong pain – during this age so mankind will never forget the lesson. Just like a parent who allows their 18-year-old to reap the consequences of their actions without "bailing them out".
By the time God is done with us, none of us will be tempted to “sin” (to operate in a way contrary to God’s operating manual, or to hurt ourselves or another person) any more than you or I today are tempted to place our hand on a hot stovetop burner and let it rest there for 5 minutes – we know from experience that such an action would be stupid because it hurts!
The Bible also makes it clear that after two difficult and painful periods of human history (this age and the very end of the next age) where Satan is allowed to accelerate mankind’s descent into stupidity (or to put it more kindly, experimentation with a bunch of things that are different than God’s ideal way), God will eliminate Satan’s tempting influence permanently. This will obviously make it much easier for mankind to operate the way they were designed to operate.
And by the time the “consummation” of the ages occurs (1 Cor. 15:20-28) occurs at which point all humans will have received immortal bodies, everyone will have been personally judged/corrected by God (at the white throne - see Rev. 20 and may article God's Ultimate Plan For Humanity). My point is that after God uses a few thousand years of history as an object lesson and then personally corrects and teaches every human being who has ever lived, there will also be much less temptation to sin or hurt others or operate incorrectly than there is now.
A worldview based on the accurately-translated Bible reveals God has simple, logical reasons for everything He does, which can be understood by any parent.
This worldview also eliminates the tendency toward pride which often plagues the members of traditional religions. Religious people are not necessarily prideful by nature, but often their worldview produces it in them unconsciously. For example, most Christians would say “they’re saved” because they chose to be saved. Besides the fact that they are blatantly contradicting their own Bible (Eph. 1:4, 2:8-9), they are essentially saying (though they would never put it this way) that they are better than a nice man in China who never even heard the word “Jesus” in his whole life. They are saying they made a better choice than the Chinese man – therefore they deserve eternal bliss while the Chinese man deserves eternal suffering. This is obviously ridiculous. The Chinese man never had a chance to make the choice the Western Christian made!
Traditional Christianity has no explanation for why God would send this nice Chinese man to hell when he never even had a chance to hear the name of Jesus. (The Bible says the testimony of nature is enough to make a person realize God exists, but in order to understand God’s redemption plan and “be saved” – from death earlier than others, thus receiving “eonian” life which means life in the next two ages – one must hear a preacher or read the Bible explaining it. See Romans 10:9-10, 14.)
A worldview based on the accurately translated Bible is free to recognize that God chooses some (mostly weak and foolish) people in this age to "get saved" sooner (see Eph. 1:4, 2:8-9, 1 Cor. 1:27-29). So believers in the accurately-translated Bible, instead of being prideful, are naturally humbled that they were chosen because of their weakness and foolishness! God choosing the weak and foolish in this age is part of teaching mankind the eternal lesson that "doing things according to the original operating manual, even if you're not smart or brilliant or amazing, works better than being smart and brilliant and amazing but doing things differently than God's original operating manual prescribes."
This third worldview which I am presenting to you today also eliminates the classic “predestination” dilemma mainstream Christianity has when reading the Bible (trying to explain why the Bible says God chooses who gets saved – see Eph. 1 for example). This third worldview makes perfect sense in that it recognizes God does indeed choose who gets "saved" (not from hell, but from death earlier than others), but this choice on God’s part is no big deal – God is not choosing who gets to party forever and who gets to burn forever, He is merely choosing His leadership team to serve mankind in the next age. It’s basically like a father with 10 children choosing his two eldest to help lead the other eight kids in an educational project.
This worldview is completely unique amongst all religions in that instead of causing religious pride, it completely eliminates it! Proponents of this worldview (like me) recognize that if this worldview is true and if we are truly among the minority of “God’s chosen ones” in this age, it is not because we are better than anyone else and it is not because we will get to party forever while everyone else burns. Rather, we recognize that if we truly are God’s chosen ones in this age, we were chosen because of God's grace and out of His necessity to choose someone to carry out His plan for the ages (mankind’s educational stages) – and also because we were weak and foolish (1 Cor. 1:26-31)!
And we’re not chosen so we can lord it over others, we’re chosen so we can serve others – the rest of humanity – in the next age. In this worldview, religious pride is replaced with somber humility and a profound sense of duty to learn how to serve your fellow humans wisely and well.
The Best Worldview Has Been Hidden From Mankind For the Most Part
So, in closing,
This third option, this third worldview, has never even been thought of or considered by the vast majority of the world’s population. It has been hidden from the eyes of most of humanity through mistranslation of key Greek/Hebrew Biblical words into English.
In my opinion, this worldview makes more sense than any other. It is by far the most logical worldview I have come across. As far as I can see, it is the worldview that has the least holes in it. And it ticks off all the boxes – it eliminates religious pride, it eventually solves all mankind’s problems, it logically explains why there is so much suffering in the world in this age, it explains the things evolution & atheism can’t explain (such as how the language of DNA/life arose from a non-intelligent source, where the material for the universe came from, how beings can grow new body parts at will just because they need or want them, why we humans love music even though it would be completely unnecessary for us to develop in an evolutionary competitive environment, etc.)
You see, the simple explanation for these holes in atheism/evolution is “God”. But in the mind of many thinking people there’s been a huge problem with believing in God – every major religion says the end of most of mankind is tragedy. People understandably expect that if God exists, He must have a better plan than that. If He doesn’t, is He even the kind of God you would want to serve?
This “third way” worldview eliminates that problem. And as I mentioned earlier it also eliminates the supposed incompatibility of the Bible with science by interpreting Genesis more accurately. This worldview validates both God and science in a way that makes perfect logical sense.
I have personally tested this worldview in every way and from every angle I know how, and so far it has held up to every test of facts or logic I have given it. For more details how it holds up to the many tests I’ve given it, you’ll have to read my other articles. I expect you to test it for yourself and not just take my word for it, because I’m an imperfect human being, just like you.
In fact, one of my favorite things about this worldview is that it is largely based on a book (the Bible) that commands us to test and examine everything. It commands humanity to use the scientific method on everything – including its own writings! To quote the specific verse I'm referring to, 1 Thessalonians 5:21 says “Test everything and hold on to what is good”.
To me, there’s nothing to be afraid of there. Because this worldview commands testing and examination, I, as a proponent of this worldview, also encourage you to test it. I’m not afraid of you testing or analyzing anything I’m saying. There’s so much freedom in that. Most proponents of every other worldview I know of – including atheism & evolution which are supposedly all about "scientific testing" – are often very skittish about people testing or challenging what they say. They don’t like it. Nobody likes the idea that they might be wrong about something. I don’t like the thought that I might be wrong any more than the next guy, but my worldview demands that testing be done. The Bible demands testing of everything including its own writings and claims!
So that’s what I leave you with. I encourage you to think about, consider and test this third worldview that has never even been thought of or considered by most of the world’s population.
Some of you might say, if this worldview is the truth, then why has God allowed it to be hidden for so long? Well, my short answer would be that according to this worldview, God has two goals for this age: 1, to let the world get “harmful operating procedures” out of their system and see the consequences of it in full living color as a lesson for posterity, and 2, to choose and train His leadership team to serve mankind in the next age. The “happily ever after stuff” doesn’t happen in this age – that starts in the next age (but is not finished until the consummation – see 1 Cor. 15). You’ll have to read my article God’s Long-Term Plan For Humanity to hear the long answer.
I want to close by listing the twelve unique characteristics of this worldview, which together set it apart from all others.
12 Unique Characteristics of a Worldview Based On the Accurately Translated Bible (Which Separate It From – And I Believe, Make It Superior To – Every Other Worldview On the Planet):
1. It is based on the only “holy book” or claimed God-inspired writing which has proof that it was inspired by God.
2. It commands the scientific method be used on everything including its own claims.
3. It says God has a great plan for all humanity, not just a select few.
4. It provides an eventually permanent solution for humanity’s two biggest problems – death and corruption.
5. It says that death is a temporary merciful consequence (unconsciousness) for operating incorrectly, not an eternal torturous one. (The fire-events in Scripture that everyone is so afraid of are temporary physical fires, not nebulous spirit-fires. See my E-Book Hell Is A Mistranslation.) In other words, this worldview says that God is humane, not a torturing monster.
6. It gives humans a good reason to behave wisely (because it is the way we were designed to operate, it brings good results, and minimizes pain) and believe (because it makes logical sense). (As opposed to religion which tells people to believe and behave “or else you’ll burn” in an attempt to bring fear-based faith and obedience).
7. It provides a logical explanation for the temporary sufferings of this age.
8. It successfully marries God and science. It agrees with science and solves the basic scientific problems evolutionary theory and atheism haven’t been able to solve, without making claims that are understandably rejected by scientists (such as “the universe is only 6,000 years old”).
9. It logically solves the two big dilemmas of religions (including mainstream Christianity) – “Which is the true God?” and “Why would God cause most of mankind to have a tragic/painful ending?” – and the two big problems atheism/evolution has with God – a 6,000-year-old universe and “God’s plan is some form of painful/tragic ending for most people”.
10. It eliminates religious pride in its proponents/believers.
11. It acknowledges the historically-proven reality that mankind is incapable of fixing their own problems without outside help or a change in human nature, and puts its hope in the only logical source that could ever fix human nature – God, mankind’s original creator.
12. It fulfills the deepest built-in desires of mankind: for eventual immortality, eventual loving unity amongst all people, and hope/meaning amidst so many current problems worldwide today.
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What Most English Bible Versions Don't Tell You...12 Unique Characteristics of a Worldview Based On the Accurately Translated Bible, That Make It Superior To All Other Worldviews Copyright 2010 Marc Speed
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