reflections on last week and this week at the round table of morning men's Bible study:
<1> Seeking answers from The Creator, sometimes we may well be asking the wrong question and thus be looking in the wrong direction for the answer to come. Or perhaps the general question is all right, but the nature of language (determinate, mortal, specific rather than open-ended and similar to the infinite) forever holds to poorly formed questions - right direction, but weak execution of the matter.
<2> Simple but complicated. On the road to relating to The Infinite, there are many useful details to seek after and fit into one's expanding understanding. As a result there is much clutter, useful or not, though it may be. So it is worth regularly retuning the key message and purpose: Stay Engaged, wrestle with The Word. Seek the will of God and once you grasp hold of something definite, continue with a strand of (self) doubt to question if the source is one's will or that of the Almighty.
<3> They say that religion is a sort of training, habit of the heart and body, or discipline (re+ligare; ligaments over and over again). But that does not mean demonstrating one's conformity to the 613 rules that preoccupied the Old Testament times, nor enforcing the literal interpretation of the scripture to prove one's ferventness. Instead the discipline lies in forever wrestling with God's Word (literally Is Ra El, where 'el' or 'al' signifies The Omnipotent).
<1> Seeking answers from The Creator, sometimes we may well be asking the wrong question and thus be looking in the wrong direction for the answer to come. Or perhaps the general question is all right, but the nature of language (determinate, mortal, specific rather than open-ended and similar to the infinite) forever holds to poorly formed questions - right direction, but weak execution of the matter.
<2> Simple but complicated. On the road to relating to The Infinite, there are many useful details to seek after and fit into one's expanding understanding. As a result there is much clutter, useful or not, though it may be. So it is worth regularly retuning the key message and purpose: Stay Engaged, wrestle with The Word. Seek the will of God and once you grasp hold of something definite, continue with a strand of (self) doubt to question if the source is one's will or that of the Almighty.
<3> They say that religion is a sort of training, habit of the heart and body, or discipline (re+ligare; ligaments over and over again). But that does not mean demonstrating one's conformity to the 613 rules that preoccupied the Old Testament times, nor enforcing the literal interpretation of the scripture to prove one's ferventness. Instead the discipline lies in forever wrestling with God's Word (literally Is Ra El, where 'el' or 'al' signifies The Omnipotent).
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