Really? Who taught you that?
It wasn't God!
Proverbs 5: 7 Therefore hear me now, my children,
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove your way far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house,
9 Lest you give your [e]honor to others,
And your years to the cruel one;
10 Lest aliens be filled with your [f]wealth,
And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
11 And you mourn at last,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 And say:
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
14 I was on the verge of total ruin,
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove your way far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house,
9 Lest you give your [e]honor to others,
And your years to the cruel one;
10 Lest aliens be filled with your [f]wealth,
And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
11 And you mourn at last,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 And say:
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
14 I was on the verge of total ruin,
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
I Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. 28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers,.....
Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,...
Hebrews 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers,....
Besides that, the book isn't about interpreting anything other than the bible! Furthermore, I've shown you multiple times already how whatever interpretation you've presumably found by "seek the Lord for wisdom" has dropped a doctrine in your lap that was formulated BY ARISTOTLE!!! That's right! Aristotle! A pagan, likely homosexual pervert, who taught people that God existed outside of time because otherwise he'd be a "contingent" being and other such nonsense that has nothing at all to do with the God of scripture.
The fact is that you've gotten the doctrine that you have right now exclusively from human interpreters! The book that I'd like you to simply read for yourself and make your own assessment of, is simply the best tool I've ever discovered to undo the damage that you human teachers have done to your spiritual life.
Ever wonder why there are sometime three or four churches on one block in nearly every city in America, all of which teach different things and all of which claim, as you do, that they've "sought the Lord for wisdom" and preach a biblical doctrine? Have you ever wondered why one church uses the bible to prove to you that you must be dunked in water to be saved while another insists that one must not be water baptized and uses the same bible to make his case? Has it ever occurred to you to ask why one Christian believes that you can lose your salvation while another is quite certain that you cannot? Some Christians say you must avoid unclean foods while other eat whatever they want. Some Christians observe the Passover and all the other Old Testament feast days while others feel free to ignore them entirely. Some Christians say that it is the one who does not work but believes who has been credited with righteousness while others insist that faith without works is dead. There is division after division after division one a seemingly endless variety of issues and every Christian, regardless of which side of which issue they find themselves on, all claim, as you do, that they seek the Lord for wisdom and can argue till their blue in the face with scripture to make their case.
What if there was a way to know who was right and who wasn't? If the Lord Himself showed up at your church and you asked Him to give you a single teaching that would inform you instantly and intuitively who was right and who was wrong on a wide variety of issues that have divided the Christian church for thousands of years, do you suppose He could give such a teaching? If He could, don't you suppose that He would have included such a teaching in the bible?
I'm telling you now that not only does such a teaching exist, it exists in the bible itself and it stated quite unambiguously in a single sentence in the New Testament. It is a sentence that you have undoubtedly read several times and glossed right over as though it weren't there because of something called paradigm blindness but once you see it, you'll never be able to unsee it and it will be as if someone turned on the lights. You'll be able to instantly know which group of Christians is right and which is wrong on very nearly any doctrinal issue you can think of. You'll not only understand that a particular group is wrong (or right) on one particular issue but you'll understand why they are wrong and will be able to intuitively know what they are likely to believe on a whole list of seemingly unrelated doctrinal issues. If you know what someone believes about the timing of rapture you can know with near certainty what they probably believe about water baptism, following the Ten Commandments, tithing, etc.
A great many (i.e. not all) of the most divisive and seemingly unrelated issues in the Christian faith are all resolved by one single sentence that God included for us to read in the New Testament. A teaching that is not complicated in any way. It isn't based on any fancy translation of some obscure Greek word. You don't need a lexicon, dictionary or thesaurus nor does it require any particular translation of the bible. It does not require that you go to a particular church or follow any particular teacher. It is a matter of simply reading any bible in any language that you can understand. It's as clear and easy to understand as it could possibly be.
I don't know how anyone could make a more compelling case for any theology!
One thing is required, however, and it's a whopper! That thing being the removal of the paradigm blindness imposed by all the false teaching you've received throughout your life. The more false teaching and the more time, effort and money you've spent on studying it, the thicker and more stubborn the paradigm. When I was a marriage councilor, many years ago, we referred to people who were resistant to accepting something that conflicted with their current mode of thinking as being "entrench". When it comes to theology, it is pastors who are the most entrenched. Once a person has invested what it takes to graduate from seminary, the trench they've dug has such steep walls that getting them to carve a set of steps to get out is very nearly impossible. No matter how great the potential reward, it looks to such a person as too high a price to pay to forsake all they've done to get to where they are in order to take a different path. It is an understandable tragedy but a tragedy nonetheless.
Don't be that guy!
You don't even have to read the whole book! Just give me the first four chapters! Just read four chapters of a book that doesn't try to do anything at all but cause you to see past the teachings of men and understand the bible for what it plainly states.
Clete
