I see this as splitting hairs / semantics.
i didn’t read fully, but too many people “spend time with God” without having read much of the bible to actually know about God. So there spending time is mostly conjured up in their own mind and they aren’t necessarily spending time with God of the bible but god of their own mind. The bible is hugely important if we are to spend time with God in any true sense. imho
She is fairly clear what she means. You need to read your Bible. But you also need to spend time alone in prayer and meditation. It’s not either-or. It’s both.
“Do not be deceived. People who study the Scriptures constantly and are continually mean-spirited, rude, slanderous and, aside their religious rhetoric, bereft of outward evidences of the Holy Spirit are having Bible study without God. He affects us. You can take that to the bank,” she said as the debate raged on.
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Amen!
I know atheists who have studied the Bible. I have read the Koran but I wasn’t spending time with Allah
If, as an assigned academic exercise in a Comparative Religion course in college I read the Koran, does that mean I spent time with Mohammed?
Reading the Bible does not mean that the reader is seeking meaning and a true relationship with God. I can point to many people who can spout chapter and verse but it is obvious they do not know God.
“Time spent reading assembly instructions is not time spent building models.”
“Time spent folding clothes is not time spent doing laundry.”
Hmmmmm ... no, not gonna buy into the premise.
The Bible isn’t the “Word of God.”
Jesus is the “Word of God.”
Other than that, Beth Moore is right about studying the Bible vs. knowing God.
She will be happy to sell you a study on spending time with God.
Beth Moore attracts her own ‘following’
Many of us have our personal favorites of ‘people of faith’.....but the difference is, I think, is we carefully consider their opinions, perhaps agree, but not idealize
With Moore it seems a promotion of Moore.....I do know she has found Donald Trump unworthy of her support and totally dismisses him
Please correct me if you think I’m wrong
another clueless she needs to look-up: lectio divinia
Gee. I understand both sides of the discussion. Now, if you change “read” to “read and meditate upon”, I’m guessing it gets much harder to get nothing from it. The Holy Spirit is often working in the meditation whether the reader knows it or not. Exposure to Scripture often leads to conviction and conviction to repentance and repentance to fellowship with Christ even as the person wasn’t truly aware what was happening to them. Nothing is impossible with God. He grows mighty oaks out of tiny acorns.
I would say the larger problem are people who listen without hearing rather than reading without learning. We’re becoming a less and less written society.
I heard someone describe it as when you pray, you speak to God. When you read the Bible, God speaks to you.
Obviously, if you are insincere doing either, it is wasted time.
First off, I have never cared for Beth Moore. Phone as a 3 dollar bill from the get go. Almost a “name it and claim it” gal, she is in this ministry for the cash. I don’t care what this adoration piece says.
Apparently, obviously, a piece meant to guilt the white Christian women who voted for PDJT into never voting for him again; like in 2020.
This little b!tch says she voted 3rd party in 2016 because DJT was SOOO repugnant. Well, little rich lady, which 3rd party? Stein? Johnson? Or the Mormon McMullen? Because as bad as all of them are you may as well admit you voted for Cankles McPantsuit.
But anyway, coming from the Atlantic .. does Blonde Phony know the Atlantic is a rag for hit pieces on Republicans? Or was she merely happy to contribute?
PS - In our church searches, ANY church that used this no-talent phony’s books as teaching material was crossed of the list and burned.
Mine is.
She is correct - many liberal bible scholars study Scripture and deny God at the same time.
The danger for believers is falling in love with the love letter and not the Lover who sent it.
I’ve seen sterile and legalistic “bible churches” that “taught scripture” but displayed no love of Him.
such an idiot...
Your Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against you. 119:11
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:2
You Word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path Psalm 119:105
So-called “Bible experts” are like Honey Buckets. You can find one pretty much everywhere, and they’re always full of crap.
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
1 Timothy 2:12
Heretic.
The idea is a simple one. Whatever study you do, whatever else you do in your busy day, you need to spend some quiet time alone with God, in prayer, and in meditation which is the other half of your prayer. For some people this is already a regular part of their daily devotion; this is just a reminder to the rest of us to make time with God a priority, and to let your prayer time be more than a laundry list. Its not a criticism of people who don’t, its an invitation.