Some years back, while sharing the Mid-Acts Perspective with someone, they asked me a series of questions that basically amounted to the question “where is this in Church history?”
My answer was basically along the line of ‘the question is; is this in Scripture?’
For some time, over the years, I‘d wondered ‘Is there a same, recurrent, identifiable pattern throughout the teachings and writings of some, way before Darby, O’Hair, et al, that reveals that how all these men approached thinking a thing through as they’d studied a thing out, attempting to solve for it, was a same, recurrent pattern of thought?’
One benefit of this is that with the identifying of such recurrent thought patterns, one is then not only aware of said patterns, but is then able to apply them during one’s own studies, and in less time than the years that acquiring them on one’s own normally requires, through time in the Word.
One now also knows how any mind, where sound; has approached the study of one thing or another.
What I have found is that, yes, a same recurrent pattern of thinking a thing through is there throughout the teachings and writings of some men here and there, way before Darby, O’Hair, et al.
Also, that it is the exact same pattern of thinking a thing through that the Apostle Paul himself is often found not only applying throughout Romans thru Philemon, but heavily emphasizing the necessary, same use of, to his readers.
When he writes, for example, “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits… that…until the…” he is not only basically relating a perspective from which, and how, he thinks a thing through, but is emphasizing the same in his readers.
And this same recurrent pattern of thinking a thing through; of how Paul himself approached doing so, is especially evident in his earlier writings.
This is not surprising. His earlier writings were written during a time in his own ministry when he too was being assaulted from all sides because his Mystery revelation, in his case as a God-inspired writer of Scripture itself, is also “not there, to be found, in the writings of those” God-inspired writers, “who wrote before” him.
Don’t let anyone tell you “Mid-Acts is not there in history.”
What they mean by that is that their over-reliance on their own tradition’s endless books “about” the Bible, has so thrown off how they approach thinking a thing through that they are unable to see what is not only right there in the passages, but in the actually required thought process, the passages themselves also teach.
There this recurrent pattern is in Paul’s writings.
The exact same thought process that allowed the Mystery’s reemergence: from the passages themselves, to the minds of men they were intended to be made manifest unto, through Paul’s writings.
My answer was basically along the line of ‘the question is; is this in Scripture?’
For some time, over the years, I‘d wondered ‘Is there a same, recurrent, identifiable pattern throughout the teachings and writings of some, way before Darby, O’Hair, et al, that reveals that how all these men approached thinking a thing through as they’d studied a thing out, attempting to solve for it, was a same, recurrent pattern of thought?’
One benefit of this is that with the identifying of such recurrent thought patterns, one is then not only aware of said patterns, but is then able to apply them during one’s own studies, and in less time than the years that acquiring them on one’s own normally requires, through time in the Word.
One now also knows how any mind, where sound; has approached the study of one thing or another.
What I have found is that, yes, a same recurrent pattern of thinking a thing through is there throughout the teachings and writings of some men here and there, way before Darby, O’Hair, et al.
Also, that it is the exact same pattern of thinking a thing through that the Apostle Paul himself is often found not only applying throughout Romans thru Philemon, but heavily emphasizing the necessary, same use of, to his readers.
When he writes, for example, “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits… that…until the…” he is not only basically relating a perspective from which, and how, he thinks a thing through, but is emphasizing the same in his readers.
And this same recurrent pattern of thinking a thing through; of how Paul himself approached doing so, is especially evident in his earlier writings.
This is not surprising. His earlier writings were written during a time in his own ministry when he too was being assaulted from all sides because his Mystery revelation, in his case as a God-inspired writer of Scripture itself, is also “not there, to be found, in the writings of those” God-inspired writers, “who wrote before” him.
Don’t let anyone tell you “Mid-Acts is not there in history.”
What they mean by that is that their over-reliance on their own tradition’s endless books “about” the Bible, has so thrown off how they approach thinking a thing through that they are unable to see what is not only right there in the passages, but in the actually required thought process, the passages themselves also teach.
There this recurrent pattern is in Paul’s writings.
The exact same thought process that allowed the Mystery’s reemergence: from the passages themselves, to the minds of men they were intended to be made manifest unto, through Paul’s writings.
