Lol.
It seems i've made quite a racket :)

I'll first explain what some of you wondered.
I opened my account when i was an atheist (a few years back :))
I simply forgot that i need to change it.. so sorry for all of you who already had a conspiracy theory that i am a theist who disguised to be an atheist :)

So no, i am no longer an atheist.

@David Killen

In the Jewish teachings, when one studies the bible, he learns it in 4 different levels.
Each level explains the words in a more elaborated way.
This is not because you change the meaning of the words rather because the meaning of the words to begin with is much more complex.

I didn't mean to say "childish" as a wrong thing, rather as a very limited and "flat" way of understanding things.

An example might be that when i'll ask you what the big bang is, the "childish" way of understanding it is to say it was a big explosion the expanded to become everything (like many theists believe, which is very "childish" from their end to think about the big bang like that)

The more mature way of looking at the big bang, is to understand the process that took place. to understand the physics and the process of expansion. to understand the way atoms are created and a lot more.

@CyberLN

The bible needs to be learned in Hebrew because in translation, there are many words that are not translated correctly.

Even the first word "בראשית" is translated wrong to be: "in the beginning".
This is not what the word really means (well, it is a part of its meaning)
ראשית in Hebrew refers also to a time frame, and not only a point of time.
This is why the word can be red in several meanings.
When you study the words in its original form, the context of things changes.

So as an example the first part of genesis should be red more like: "During the first period of creation" and not "at the beginning of creation".

In the first few verses, there are many times that the translation is very narrow in comparison to the actual full meaning of the word.

The ראשית derives from the word ראש (head) which also means top of or lead of.

So only the first verse hold several meanings that needs to be considered when reading the next verses.

What you say is true, too many (including Hebrew speaking people) learn the bible and interpret their own meanings while the fact is that there is an actual meaning to things.

In the book it self, there are instructions how to read the book.
And yes. the fault for the confusion is in the author. this is how it is supposed to be.

Please note, when i say something like "supposed", it is based on the Jewish teachings. I assume there are many who might claim otherwise, but i really think that when learning about something, it is best to learn it in its original form.

People who give their own interpretations, come up with horrible things (like that God hates gays and they are to blame for earthquakes or whatever idiotic idea people come up with).

@Cognostic...

Lol.. not going to go there as it will probably take 40 pages of text for you to understand the verses you might think you understand in your post.
Everything in the bible is stories of what happened after humans didn't understand what they are required to do.
The only rules humans are given as the "base rules" are in the story of Adam and Eve. everything beyond that are the chronicles of humans and their attempts to understand God.

@Nyarlathotep

When someone translates something that might have several meanings, it is always translated with a subjective understanding.

I can translate a song and at the end you will get a very different meaning even if the words are similar.
So what i claimed was that in order to understand something to the full, you need to learn the origin and not the translation of a translation.

Part of the Jewish teaching is to never accept something as truth just because someone told you.
This is why one is expected to question EVERYTHING he is taught until he accepts it as truth.

Geeeez. that was long :)