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To: Katelew who wrote (220378)	2/22/2007 4:03:44 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Trying to connect with God or to know the character of God by reading scripture for oneself is a huge and difficult undertaking. I've been telling him this for days. He needs to pick up a book of commentary, or find a teacher. Very few Christians or Jews try to learn all by themselves just by reading the Bible, although plenty of people who did not grow up in a church turn to the Bible first, but this is typically someone who is searching for answers. It's a very big book, even on thin paper, and it covers thousands of years, and even the most recent parts were written a couple of thousand years ago by people who spoke other languages and lived in an entirely different culture. If you were brought up in a church, your parents read you Bible stories, and you go to Sunday school or Hebrew school, and if you went to a religious school you get religious instruction as part of your daily education, and if not, some other way. When I was a kid in Catholic school we had catechism every day, but there is so much more to learn. Christians have Bible study on Sunday or at night. Jews have something similar. The same is true for Muslims. I have a client whose daughter goes to two different religion classes each week. The mother takes the child to study the Koran in Arabic and the father takes the child to study Islam in Farsi. There is no human endeavor, from cooking to carpentry to playing music to driving a car to understanding the Constitution, that can be thoroughly comprehended without any instruction or practice.