My Treatise on the Bible

How I understand you, my favorite book.
Truthfully, I understand you better than 
I understand my own work, at times.
Beautiful are your pages, and leafs
Which miraculously fold into small books
With thin paper, and many pages leaf through
And the excellence of your wisdom is premier.

Yet I say you are not the whole faith.
Our faith is found in the living epistles
Of every Christian--true Christian--
And your laws are excellent, but need
To be understood through a clear context.
I have that Context, for having seen it
When I was a little lad, but many have not.

I see disputes about doctrine, and Ignatius says,
"Yes, where is it written?" And I ask myself the same.
For, the Legalist is a damned Pharisee, for we ought
To know how to walk, and that in Love and Kindness.
Thus, disputes and laws, and ordinances
We ought to let go, and be at peace with the brethren.
However, what Paul lists as sin... oh, know, it is sin.
No reviler shall enter the kingdom of heaven
And yet our entire Church has become revilers of man
Wanting to find their proof from the scriptures.

It is all there, for sure... nothing lacks in the Bible
But then people want laws and ordinances and legalism
But not the Spirit of the Law, and like Cain they murder 
Their brother, over disputes and heavy controversies.
And they dispute one with each other, and Satan gleefully
Listens to their disputes, and there is no righteousness
Or peace, but only envy and slander and deceit.

The great travesty of scripture is that it is complete
But it means something. And so many shirk the meaning
For legalistic interpretations, that don't get to the heart
Of what the Bible is saying... which is to Love God and your Neighbor.