I am increasingly weary of . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 – Man’s words from spiritual “Bible” teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 – Theological, doctrinal labels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 – Words and phrases created, that have to be explained (actually, created SO THAT they have to be explained), proven by dozens of examples, leading to #4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4 – Dependence on theologians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5 – Expectation of choosing someone to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6 – Believing them when I don’t understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7 – Trusting their teaching when I can’t find out for myself ? ? ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
–<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am increasingly WEARY of . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8 – Hearing more man’s words than God’s Words to explain God’s Word, God’s thoughts, God’s plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am increasingly weary of . . . 1 – Man’s words from spiritual “Bible” teachers. 2 – Theological, doctrinal labels. 3 – Words and phrases created, that have to be explained (actually, created SO THAT they have to be explained), proven by dozens of examples, leading to #4. 4 – Dependence on theologians. 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580"}],"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=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7581,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions\/7581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}