The Christian Bible's Guide to reading the Christian Bible

Update:  Please see my Translator's Preface to The Christ Family Bible.

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The Christian Bible does articulate principles that, very likely, are essential for avoiding misreadings (and mistranslations) of the Bible:

(1) Jesus Christ is the only "guide" (kathēgētēs) to Christian teaching, which is then taught and supervised by teachers (Matthew 23:8-10; 1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:11).

(2) The Holy Spirit, promised and sent by Christ to faithful disciples, guides Christians to all truth (John 14:15-17; John 16:13). 

(3) Wisdom is given freely to Christians who pray for it (James 1:5).

(4) Divinely authored Scripture as a whole is entirely orderly, never contradicting itself (1 Corinthians 14:32-33).

(5) A wicked force ("the god of this aeon") works to prevent people from perceiving God's wonderful message of good things (2 Corinthians 4:3-4).

(6) Experience confirms the correct reading, or in the words of Jesus, "Wisdom is justified [shown to be righteous] by her works" (Matthew 11:19) and "all her children" (Luke 7:35).

(7) The Christian Bible can be misread, "twisted", to the extent of the "self destruction" of the misreaders (2 Peter 3:16).