Just like the matrix where the problem is choice. I find the bible to be a puzzle book. To solve it ( a journey of a lifetime ) is a question of interpretations and attitude. How do you get past conflicting verses or that some translations have more verses than others?
List of New Testament verses not included in modern English translations
These New Testament verses not included in modern English translations are verses of the New Testament that exist in older English translations (primarily the King James Version), but do not appear or have been relegated to footnotes in later versions. Scholars have generally regarded these verses as later additions to the original text.
I am going to try and explain my attitude in a couple of verses. I can't say that it is right...
Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who heeds counsel is wise.
The problem is choice. Pick one, am I playing the fool or the wise? So what happens if we don't pick? What happens if we pick both? What happens if you say I don't need that scripture God leads me in the direction he wants me to go. Satan did quote scripture at Jesus in his temptation in the desert. The development of an attitude has its own risks and rewards. Where is the counsel in the verses below?
Psalms 119:97-100 98 Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. 99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. 100 I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.
The bait and switch as I call it. Where does your heart go to justify yourself with scripture or like a pirate? What is the reward in treasure that you trying to steal from scripture?
Psalm 2:8 Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.
Bait and the switch is the Levitates got to have God as an inheritance. Did your eyes light up at the thought of God giving you the nations as an inheritance instead of getting God himself as an inheritance?
1 Kings 3: 9-15 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?” 10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. 11 So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, 12 I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. 13 Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. 14 And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.” 15 Then Solomon awoke—and he realized it had been a dream.
One final thought is you never know what the side conversions are with God. For example, God could have had a side conversion with Moses. ' You know, if you hit that rock more than once. I am going to be angry with you and you won't get to lead these people.' I would have been banging the crap out of that rock. Like whacking day on the Simpsons.
Numbers 20: 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. 12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
Versus
Matthew 12:3-8 3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’[a] you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
That might be stretching things a bit but I thought it was kinda funny.