In the next few months, I'll be moving on from posting much on TOL, if not just moving on altogether 
In this, I thought I'd relate a thought I've long had on my mind, lest I forget to relate it later.
That the only difference I see that matters in how we each understand one thing or another is their potential impact on our understanding of those issues where a proper understanding is critical.
But even that continues to have limited appeal to me. For in the end, it is between the individual, The Book, and His Maker.
For example, personally, whether or not the Romans were in the Body before Paul wrote Romans does not really matter to me, as they have been gone from this earth some two thousand years now, and whatever their case was before or after the fact of Romans, has long ceased from being a concern.
Likewise with whether the 12 were in or out or down and out, or who wrote Hebrews, or what have you...
For me, the issue will continue to be what I might further refine as to my own understanding about how to study a thing out; and this is a life-long ending process.
And in this, one who is willing, is able to learn not only in agreement with those one is in agreement with, but also, from the challenge that opposition to one's own view can challenge one to - to study a thing out afresh.
Including, the challenge of studying out afresh also, how one studies things out to begin with.
I doubt am alone in some of this, but for me, this challenge to study out how I am approaching my study of a thing is a never ending fascination.
I like that; it leaves neither room for the blinding impact of needing to be right; nor for taking offense at slights, whether real, or perceived as such.
It also makes for the path to a quick recovery from those moments where one has temporarily lost sight of the above.
The result; all the room in the world for a continued, growing in understanding, Acts 20:32
In this, I thought I'd relate a thought I've long had on my mind, lest I forget to relate it later.
That the only difference I see that matters in how we each understand one thing or another is their potential impact on our understanding of those issues where a proper understanding is critical.
But even that continues to have limited appeal to me. For in the end, it is between the individual, The Book, and His Maker.
For example, personally, whether or not the Romans were in the Body before Paul wrote Romans does not really matter to me, as they have been gone from this earth some two thousand years now, and whatever their case was before or after the fact of Romans, has long ceased from being a concern.
Likewise with whether the 12 were in or out or down and out, or who wrote Hebrews, or what have you...
For me, the issue will continue to be what I might further refine as to my own understanding about how to study a thing out; and this is a life-long ending process.
And in this, one who is willing, is able to learn not only in agreement with those one is in agreement with, but also, from the challenge that opposition to one's own view can challenge one to - to study a thing out afresh.
Including, the challenge of studying out afresh also, how one studies things out to begin with.
I doubt am alone in some of this, but for me, this challenge to study out how I am approaching my study of a thing is a never ending fascination.
I like that; it leaves neither room for the blinding impact of needing to be right; nor for taking offense at slights, whether real, or perceived as such.
It also makes for the path to a quick recovery from those moments where one has temporarily lost sight of the above.
The result; all the room in the world for a continued, growing in understanding, Acts 20:32
