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* It's good to suffer loss, for it draws me to the Cross where God's loss is more than what anyone ever lost. * We cannot hear what the stories of the Bible are saying until we hear them as stories about ourselves. * Let go of control. * Trust God. Thank God. Think about God. Talk to God. Talk about God.
Showing posts with label born again. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Can You Learn, Unlearn and Relearn from the "Inerrant and Infallible" Bible?

Learn, Unlearn, Relearn. 
The "conservative" Pharisees believed that Moses, their Torah and the Prophets (the Old Testament) were inerrant and infallible (Ps 18:30; 19:7; 119:89; Prov 30:5; Dt 8:3). It thus formed, framed and fixed their thoughts, consciousness and even their unconscious such that it could never change for any reason, not even upon seeing supernatural miracles (Jn 14:11). In order to learn they needed to unlearn and relearn their very own Scriptures. The problem was that they used their faith in their Scriptures to justify being closed, fixed, rigid, inflexible and not being pliable and open. They couldn't accept the welcoming and forgiveness of "horrible sinners" (Lk 15:1-2). They were "old wine skins" (Mt 9:16-17; Mk 2:22; Lk 5:37-38) stubbornly unwilling to be "born again" (Jn 3:3, 5; 1 Pet 1:23). Thus, they could not learn, unlearn or relearn anything from the Bible they claimed to believe in.