scripture study responses

[Archaea]

http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/list.html

I wonder how the responses will differ here as opposed to there.

[Archaea]

Okay, so my trolling doesn't work over there. It wasn't entirely trolling but I was curious to see what efforts people employ and to what purpose they employ them.

[creekster]

I study to learn, to grow, to be edified and to prepare talks.

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by creekster

I study to learn, to grow, to be edified and to prepare talks.

I study in an attempt to grow closer to God and connect with the Holy Ghost, and get myself in the frame of mind to receive personal revelation. I know that's a very trivial reason to the intellectuals of the world.

[pelagius]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Okay, so my trolling doesn't work over there. It wasn't entirely trolling but I was curious to see what efforts people employ and to what purpose they employ them.

What was the original question? I don't have a cougarboard account so the thread doesn't show up for me.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by jay santos

I study in an attempt to grow closer to God and connect with the Holy Ghost, and get myself in the frame of mind to receive personal revelation. I know that's a very trivial reason to the intellectuals of the world.

DO you mean me? I like your reasons. I sort of meant to include that in my pithy refernce to edification.

[Archaea]

Do you read them literally, using them for historicity?

Do you use them intuitively or projectively?

Do you use them synthetically or for purposes of conforming to their teachings?

Or do you use them reflectively to take responsibility for your own commitments?

Or do you use them conjunctively adaptive to reality of your life as you experience new activities, events, relationships, critically aware of the balance between certain mythic, unconscious truths and reasonable expectations of daily life?

Or do you try to integrate all of the uses to dynamically interact with your relationships, community and surroundings to positively impact those whom you encounter?

Again, because I was thinking on the fly for a particular purpose, it was inartfully worded.

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by creekster

DO you mean me? I like your reasons. I sort of meant to include that in my pithy refernce to edification.

No, I was adding to you not contrasting.

[pelagius]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Do you read them literally, using them for historicity?

Suppose, I read the book of Jonah as satire (pretty cool satire as well). Also, suppose I believe the author of the book of Jonah intended to write satire. Is my reading literal?

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by jay santos

I study in an attempt to grow closer to God and connect with the Holy Ghost, and get myself in the frame of mind to receive personal revelation. I know that's a very trivial reason to the intellectuals of the world.

I won't diminish anybody's reasons, as whatever adds meaning to your life, is worthwhile.

In advancing an argument for scholarly exegesis, not something for which I have the abilities but wish I did, how does one know what one believes one knows.

The reason for the inquiry is constant re-examination what I believe or think I believe to know shows me, I am usually only partially correct. For example, things confirmed via the Spirit, I wonder which aspects of any particular "concept" is being confirmed. Example, we love to say, "we know the BoM is true." But what does that mean? That the principles are divinely inspired, that the events are historically accurate, that the "translation" is perfect? I have answers to some of those question, but a personal working, constantly on the principles, causes me to avoid setting in stone what I think I know. I find new angles constantly and those angles shed a different light on how I perceive God to work.

The source knowledge, what one knows and how one perfects what one believes to know is a source of constant concern to me. I find I'm usually in error in my previous observations, not always in huge magnitudes, but in magnitudes significant enough to require reinspection.