So what is a Christian?
What is the Church?What is prayer? And what is the Bible? And what
may one reasonable expect from the Lord God Almighty.....if anything.
And who has the Authority to teach? Where are the answers to be
found? If anywhere? Or is it just a chaotic mass of opinions? Is
there a Absolute?
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So why study anything?
Surely without a in depth knowledge and understanding of any subject
one cannot prevail. Eg weapons development. Someone with no
understanding of metallurgy,electronics coding etc etc no weapons
would be developed.....or in pharmaceuticals......no knowledge and
and understanding of molecular genetics etc one could not develop new
pharmaceuticals to assist in the cure of diseases. From a
Philosophical point of view Aristotle is alleged to have said “The
unexamined life is not worth living.”
Some people are more
diligent than others
“Baur
was a heroic figure ,a representative of German scholarship at its
best,in its tireless industry, in the range of its operations, and in
its fearless eagerness to advance the knowledge of the truth without
regard for what the consequences may be in relation to convictions
and traditions dearly held and cherished. He was at his desk by four
o clock every morning. The works published during his lifetime amount
to ten thousand pages,those published after his death from his notes
or those of his students to another six thousand, the equivalent of a
book of four hundred pages every year for forty years.”
(The Interpretation of the
New Testament – Stephen Neill page 30)
Awesome
So with Baur we have a
example of tireless study of the Word of God over a lifetime.
