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To: Belteshazzar

That works, too.

That’s how I do my general Bible reading but other times I just read as I feel led, or what I’m interested in.


39 posted on 02/02/2015 10:50:38 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

How one reads the Bible in the course of time and circumstances of one’s life will of course vary. I am only suggesting that the Bible is understood best when one approaches it in light of its God-given order, knowing that what He revealed in the past He did not forget as He gave each successive revelation. “For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.” (Malachi 3:6) Always assume that everything He said in the books that precede the one you currently are reading is still very much operative and, as a corollary to that, one cannot ever set something He said in the past against something He said later, and vice versa. Otherwise He is not who the very Scriptures we read testify He is, that is, eternal, almighty, omniscient, all-wise, just, and, above all things, merciful.


40 posted on 02/02/2015 11:21:15 AM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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