Subject: A Learning Experience |
Bible Note: The forum was a babe in swaddling clothes when first I logged on. I've been fairly active on it and have seen users come and go by the score; read good posts and bad ones, the latter outweighing the former; learned a great deal about human nature and managed through it all to pick up an occasional morsel of good exegesis on a passage or two of Scripture that shed some light along my path. Another thing, no it has been two things, one of which I have seen frequently and the other all too rarely. Frequently I have seen long and rambling postings on subjects about which the authors presumed to know much but knew little at all, and in which they used highly technical and profound theological terms but exhibited no evidence at all that they had even a tenuous grasp of what the terms mean or what they, the posters, mean when they use them. Let's cite the word "predestination" as an example. We've all seen it tossed about on this forum with the casualness we would expect to see displayed with the use of the word "kitten." Yet it is more than likely that a sizeable number of users of the word "predestination" would be hard put to it to put into clear and precise language what the word means ....... The other thing, the thing I've seen so rarely, is a display of the grace and intellectual honesty that come as a requisite of being willing to admit freely and simply "I don't know." It is a wise man who knows what he knows; it is a wiser man still who knows what he does not know; and it is a man, both wise and honest, who knows what he does not know and is willing to admit it. --Hank |
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