Only one of you has commented much about the blog, so I am thinking that maybe since it is mainly me that will run the risk of creating concern in those who might read the blog, I am ready to run that risk and invite anyone to the blog. I have a few other people that I think might be interested only because they know I am a fringe thinker.
So if none of you that were originally invited have any objections, I am going to open it up. And you can as well. Although who you know that I don't that would be interested is not even fathomable to me.
I have had little time to read lately, but what I have read continues to hold my interest. So far none of it has moved me from my point of faith or changed my beliefs in any way. What is has done, however, is pulled the veil back on some of the issues, circumstances and scenarios in the Old Testament that had me puzzled. What I have read has not so much solved the mysteries as much as it has helped me see that I am not alone in the mystery. And having seen many of the possible solutions to the mysteries proffered by some of the top ancient writing researchers I can rest more comfortably in my opinions and not worry that I have begun to overlook an obvious translation or resolution.
At the same time I find myself becoming a lot more tolerant of other's opinions of the same situations. And I believe that is because I can smugly remind myself those in whom is found the most staunch opinion of how something must be in the scriptures really don't know any more than any of the rest of us. It also humbles me to the point of never thinking that I have things resolved or organized into "the way it was or happened" any more than others.
Here is the scenario. I am in a class and one of the ancient stories, laws, situations, or circumstances comes up and someone takes the floor to inform the rest of us exactly what happened and why the writer wrote what he did. (Bowing to the bias that all of the ancient writings were written by men.) And to myself I say "Yeah? You don't know jack."
So far, that has been the biggest thing I have learned. Concisely, I have learned that we really haven't learned much. And to believe we are right and others are wrong is pretty egotistical.
Later.
