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2 Timothy 3:16-4:4 – Attitudes in Studying
When coming to conclusions about the Bible seemingly no one else has, which one are you: 1) honest; 2) delusional; 3) selfishly sinful; 4) ignorant; 5) still studying.
This is a question I have to continually ask myself. Number 5 should always be true even if we conclude honestly (#1) what we have not previously believed before or that we were right all along. Prideful might fit under #2,3. It is so easy to be puffed up with pride when “I” discover something “new.” If you learn something new and true, you’ve learned what’s old but new to you. (Luke 24:45 (HCSB) (45) Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.)
Attitudes when studying is far deeper and more important than we possibly give personal credence to. For example, believing what we always have, or what the majority do, can give a sense of false comfort, so that our faith is no longer in the scriptures, but in the antiquity and majority.
2 Timothy 3:16-4:4 (HCSB) 2 Timothy 3:16; All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and because of His appearing and His kingdom: Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching. For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new. They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.
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