RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 27, 2012 at 11:46 am
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2012 at 11:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 27, 2012 at 11:25 am)CliveStaples Wrote: Proverbs 3 isn't saying "don't ever try to understand things", or "never make judgments/evaluations based on your own understanding". It's talking about what you should fundamentally orient your life around--more like, "Don't think that you've got everything figured out already. Be willing to be changed/lead by the Lord".Insufficient, and honestly no different than orienting your life around thinking that you've got it all figured out (we'd just be assuming that someone else has it all figured out). If the lord could cobble together a reasonable explanation for anything then it wouldn't be the lord doing the changing or the leading, it would be the reasonable explanation.
All of this leads me to wondering why we can't trust the words on the page to mean what they say? Why didn't the text simply read......
-"Don't think that you've got everything figured out already. Be willing to be changed/lead by the Lord"-
Why isn't that what we find in the black and white? I mean sure, that's clearly what some may want it to mean, but who's offering the wisdom in this scenario, the lowly human or the god? When it's all said and done it's just a proverb, a saying of men. We say silly things sometimes.
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