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Thank you both so much for your thoughtful insight on reading the Scriptures!

I used to read and research the Bible exhaustively with maps, lexicons, commentaries and the whole nine yards. In fact, I used to refer to it is as "the inerrant Word of God."

Then one day the Spirit led me to a much better understanding through the Gospel of John. The Word of God is God, is from the beginning and Jesus is the Word made flesh. The Scriptures came after the beginning and thus, the Scriptures are indeed inerrant and reveal God truly, but not fully.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. – John 1:1-3

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. – John 1:14

It was like the Light switched “on” inside. All of a sudden the Scriptures came alive. As my eyes read the Bible, the Spirit within me read the Word. Whenever I needed to know something, a Scripture would come to mind – as it did in post 58 above.

This is how Jesus has become my food and my drink:

Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life.

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?

Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. John 6:43-59

the Scriptures are indeed inerrant and reveal God truly, but not fully.

I could post my picture and bio on my home page, and along with my posts they would tell you a lot about me. And it would be true. But to really know me, you would have to be around me, watch me in action, see how I react to things, and generally put up with me.

If you were thus acquainted with me, you could re-read my posts and my bio and you would understand them in a different way.

You can not help but grow in your understanding of God and of Scripture as a result of living. The experiences of your own circumstance, your maturity as a person, and having observed how God moves in your own life and in the lives of people close to you, unlocks insights that you couldn't possibly have had as a younger person. God is not changing, but you are, and your understanding of him is.

Thats not wrong, its the whole point.