What is Sylvias view of the Bible?
The Bible is a fascinating chronicle of the journey toward Spirituality. The Old Testament is best viewed as an analogy of the path each person will take as they perfect their soul; it takes you from creation, through war and strife, to defamation and the “dark night of the soul” – but then you come upon the wellspring of hope that lives deep within each of us. Then we have the New Testament which gives us an all to brief look at one of the world’s greatest teachers, Jesus. His brilliant and moving lessons in Spirituality are as valid today as when he spoke them. Having said that, please realize that today there are about 25 different versions of the Bible in English, so the idea of the Bible makes no sense. Each time a new version appears the text changes, the meanings can differ, and the prejudices of the authors enter into the picture. So truthfully we cannot accept that “the Bible is the unaltered word of God.” And then consider that the original language of Jesus was Aramaic, in w
