Complicated long topic title to check to see if you're all awake

[MoreCoffee]

Truth is a mystery, it has to be for one reason which ought to be obvious.

So, when truth is revealed in the scriptures and human beings read it or hear it read to them, ought the human beings come away from the experience feeling quite proud of themselves for their industrious, diligent, and brilliant labour to discover it?

 

[1689Dave]

Truth is a mystery, it has to be for one reason which ought to be obvious.

So, when truth is revealed in the scriptures and human beings read it or hear it read to them, ought the human beings [come] away from the experience feeling quite proud of themselves for their industrious, diligent, and brilliant labour to discover it?

I corrected a misspelling so it makes more sense.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I corrected a misspelling so it makes more sense.

Very kind of you to notice the error.

Now, what is your thinking on the original post with the correction applied to it?

 

[1689Dave]

Very kind of you to notice the error.

Now, what is your thinking on the original post with the correction applied to it?

Paul says knowledge puffs up. So yes there is an ego problem with accumulated knowledge. It got so bad for Paul that God sent Satan to buffet him. It would be like David numbering the troops that would replace faith in God with confidence in the flesh.