If you follow me, my teaching, this is what I think you should believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On what basis should I follow someone who says, “I think, I believe, and so I teach.” ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Honestly, I’m growing weary of ‘respected’ theologian teachers going over and over the different viewpoints on a subject (historically and currently), and then expounding on the one they subscribe to.
It reduces Bible Study and doctrine to—choosing a person to follow—and letting them tell you what to think and believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Isn’t there a better way than repeatedly pointing out the complexity of varied interpretations.
The most loaded topic nowadays is the bandwagon of end-time time-lines.
Everybody has one, and everybody else has another one.
Repetition seldom makes presentation of any case any stronger—only increases dedication to it.
This is not how to do Bible Study—and current day consensus is elusive and un-Biblical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should we not stick to what the Bible says to start with, instead of adding Bible passages to back up our teaching ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is an age-old<\/span> problem—and that is an age-old solution, timeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you follow me, my teaching, this is what I think you should believe. On what basis should I follow someone who says, “I think, I believe, and so I teach.” ? Honestly, I’m growing weary of ‘respected’ theologian teachers going over and over the different viewpoints on a subject (historically and currently), and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7177,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}