><>...David, so what's to forgive?....You are to be admired, not forgiven.....
You have done nothing but inquire as to the word of God, and God honors that.....
The study which you say you have done in Hebrew of Gen.1:1-2 is a very good place to start....What did you conclude from that study?...
We must take all studies at their completion and total them as one with all the rest of the scriptures and the plan of God becomes clearer....
Although we may live 1000 yrs. studying the word of God we will never be able to know all that God has written, but we will know all that God will allow us to know according to our efforts....
When someone shows me something that I did not know before whether it be of God or otherwise, my curiosity is spiked and I want to know how to find what it is they showed me, that I did not know before.....
Just because I have studied for many mnay years does not suggest I have studied it all......The process of knowing is a process of learning, and when we think we have already learned then we have limited our Knowing....I have been studying the word of God for more than 40 yrs. and I learn something new and exciting each day.....If we stop learning we stop living.....
David, maybe the most important aspect of learning is "Unlearning"....
Sometimes one must unlearn a mistaken belief... And lo and behold our pride can, if we let it, cause us to stay stuck in that mistaken belief....When I am faced with a new concept or piece of information that may be very different from that which I knew to be correct I get as much data from as many reliable sources as is possible and line it up with the original source.....For ex. I used to believe that the "rapture" as taught by the christian church, was a fact....After many years of always believing it I was faced with many questions that just did not sit right.....So I began an independent indepth study.....
Even in face of already having learned it good real good.....even in the face of already having believed it...
The point is David, that some times the most difficult part of learning something is "unlearning" something..to the extent of being quite impossible for some people....In those cases Learning ceases
Another most important aspect of learning is to pass it on, to be an example.....Christianity is a life-style not a religion, it is a relationship with God our Father through our Savior and Lord Jesus the Christ....To God be the Glory
Talk to you again later
Ps.133
Shalom...><> |
