Anyone truly understand the Bible?
Grew up in church. Fifteen years of Sunday school, youth group, the whole thing. And what I walked away with was the surface. Be good. Have faith. Here's the doctrine. Move on.
I always thought it was kinda BS tbh.
Started to come back to it recently after a friend introduced me to some different interpretations. I'm starting to slowly realized there's a whole layer under the verses.. "The kingdom of God is within you." "Be still and know." etc.
I feel my pastors never really understood, but kept regurgitating the same bullshit they've learned in school. Not sure if the Vatican knows it or they are just ignorant (curious to know what you guys think on that?).
The problem is I can't find anything that helps me read for that layer now.
ChatGPT and the Bible apps with Ai built in spit out the same slop every time. "This verse can be interpreted in many ways." "Some scholars believe..." You can tell it's not interpreting anything.
Anyone here found a way through? A commentary, a teacher, a method, anything that actually knows what the text means?