Nothing will strike fear into the heart of tyrannical personality, whether they be political or spiritual, like a thinking person. When they lose control of your mind, they have lost control. Notice the last three words in the sub-head of Today’s Journal. It says “…for thinking people.” Our purpose is not to get people to think our way, but to challenge each to do his or her own thinking. We have far too many, what I like to refer to as, “Parrot Christians.”
Many, who have not had the privilege of a good education, nonetheless possess a highly intellectual aptitude. I’ve known educated people who, as my dear old mother used to say, “didn’t know how to come in out of the rain.” Both Jesus and His disciples did not have formal educations, but who would be ignorant enough to believe they did not have the same, or superior, smarts as the most learned of their day, especially the former.
For example, let’s take those who sit under dogmatic, prophetic, authoritarian Bible teachers. A thinker, when told there will definitely be a seven year tribulation period, will invariably ask the question, “What Jesus meant when He stated that those days would be shortened?” And as to the Seven Hills of Rome being the only solitary place known as such, some may wonder why they are not told of the other three places that are known for having seven hills associated with them (Babylon, Byzantium, and Jerusalem). And why something as important as the re-building of the Temple was never mentioned by Jesus or Paul? And that the “Last Days” started in Jesus’ day (Heb.1:2), not ours.
I’m not saying I adhere to any of the above, nor am I denying it; that’s not the issue. I simply want people, as Winnie the Pooh says, to “think, think, think.” O beloved of the Lord, use the mind God gave you. Don’t be intimidated by pseudo-scholarship. As much as possible, learn to be objective in your thinking. No one person has a corner on the truth. God can and will show a godly scrub-woman deep truths from His Word, just as He does a learned theologian!
Watch out for the person who gets upset when questioned!
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