I do not know Mr. E's beliefs and we have never talked about them before privately to each other.
I can only speak for myself, in what I believe is true and subjective.
As people wonder at my crazy ideas that I have, well the truth to me is this:
And no one has asked me the simple question of "Matthew what are your overall beliefs in the bible?"
Here are some of my beliefs that are in my heart concerning the bible.
Jesus Christ came down from heaven in the flesh, (At one time being the Word of God). He had a second name Immanuel which means God with us (those of faith in Christ have God with them by and through the Holy Spirit as Jesus did being among them in their day in age). Jesus was born of the virgin Mary. Jesus was also the image of the invisible God, and God was with Jesus by and through the Holy Spirit when he was baptized by John the Baptist in the River Jordan. The Mission Jesus had came to do was to reconcile the Jewish people and the Gentiles to God in which the Jewish people of the Nation of Israel whom was Jesus own people; decided to Crucify him on the Cross, he was buried, and he went to hell / sheol and went and talked to those in the paradise part of Sheol and those who were in prison for three days proclaiming some message to them. Then the Father, raised Jesus Christ up from the dead, and then Jesus had ascended after being with his disciples for awhile. He promised that He was going to come back during his stay with his disciples, and told them to be ready for the wrath of God was going to come down upon the Nation of Israel in that day, and those who were not going to experience any part of it needed to be on watch and on guard, those people where taken away in that day and did not suffer wrath was the Bride of Christ the - 144,000 people of the 12 tribes of Israel in which had not defiled themselves as the other Jewish people whom either were of weaker faith, and those who went to having idols.
Overall I believe that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life, and that no one comes to Father except through Him, and those who do believe in the death, burial, and resurrection in faith receive the holy spirit, and the spirit of Christ, and that they are born again and they can continue to learn and grow from the teachings of Christ though not everything in the Gospel may pertain to us specifically, and the same thing goes for Paul and his letters, and the other apostles in their letters, there are many things to be learned and gained from reading and studying the bible however because of it's contents, there are many different denominations and there are people who teach in different formats, in which they make out things to be for our day in age, and that is where I start to disagree for the most part.
Those in faith in the Lord Jesus Christ become children of God, and they are given the power to become Sons and Daughters of God by seeking out in faith and living and abiding in Christ which produces what the holy Spirit produce, which is love, peace, gentleness, long-suffering towards other people who may be difficult to get along with, and when we die from this earth we will be given spiritual rewards based on self-sacrifice and love towards God, first over all else, and having love towards others.
