It Is Finished

[GKC]

I surely understand what you are saying, GKC. At age 63, I tire far more quickly,
and no longer have near-total recall of that which I was priviledged to read.
And I also comprehend what you are saying, with regard to scholarship.
Yet I have to say that, to me, you are a scholar. My definition of same includes
a love of learning, which I hold to be a gift from God Himself.

reen12

We are of an age, you and I.

In fact, given the immediate proximity of my next birthday, I might venture that I am slightly senior.

Reading started, seriously for me, in early grammar school. Book collecting started, pathologically, about the 6th grade.

It’s only gotten worse.

GKC.

 

[Richard_Kastner]

Years ago in Maine a Baptist minister ran a missionary boat. He once told us that God gave each of us a ;map and a compass. We do best if we follow the map He gave us using the compass He gave us. If we try using another’s compass we are going to get lost.

Are you saying that God gives each one of us a different map and a different compass. In other words each one of us has our own truth to follow. Which means there is no absolute truth at all and we don’t have to pay any attention to the map and compass that God gives to everyone. THE WORD OF GOD.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Are you saying that God gives each one of us a different map and a different compass. In other words each one of us has our own truth to follow. Which means there is no absolute truth at all and we don’t have to pay any attention to the map and compass that God gives to everyone. THE WORD OF GOD.

There is an absolute truth, and that is what we are all seeking. However, we each must start from where we are now on that journey; so our course may be different though converging.

Note that I am not propounding a deep theological truth here. It is just a simplified explanation by a Baptist missionary on why we need to be tolerant for those who are working their own path to that absolute truth.

 

[reen12]

We are of an age, you and I.

In fact, given the immediate proximity of my next birthday, I might venture that I am slightly senior.

Reading started, seriously for me, in early grammar school. Book collecting started, pathologically, about the 6th grade.

It’s only gotten worse.

GKC.

Don’t I know it. At ages 9 and 10, read an entire wall of biographies from the
local library. Read 3 books a week, outside of class work, in high school.
When my husband and I moved into our home, 32 years ago, we had 5,000 volumes.
Enjoyed the exchange, GKC. Thank you.

reen

 

[reen12]

TristanCross, please accept my apology for veering from the topic at hand.
May God walk with you, each day and moment of your life.

reen12

 

[GKC]

Don’t I know it. At ages 9 and 10, read an entire wall of biographies from the
local library. Read 3 books a week, outside of class work, in high school.
When my husband and I moved into our home, 32 years ago, we had 5,000 volumes.
Enjoyed the exchange, GKC. Thank you.

reen

So did I.

And, at last estimate, my holdings are approximately 20,000.

GKC