When talking to someone about my faith, I often find myself unable to recall a certain argument, fact, verse, etc. I remember reading about it, but can't really use it in conversation. E.g., if you catch me in the hall, I wouldn't be able to tell you where the Bible shows Jesus as God, or how the alleged discrepancies in the Bible are solved, or what's the evidence for non-corruption of the Bible, even though I've read about it. So, I'd like to know how can I read books and remember the information better? I'm not hopeless - in fact, I'm a law student and CAN study.
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How do you remember?
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When talking to someone about my faith, I often find myself unable to recall a certain argument, fact, verse, etc. I remember reading about it, but can't really use it in conversation.
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I find the same frustration as well, I can memorize large blocks of scripture, I think I have a fairly strong grip on a lot of Christian Doctrine, even some of that which relates directly to Apologetics. However I find the same struggle with trying to remember, (especially when I need to) but I have found over the years the more I let go of a witnessing situation and turn it over to God and lay down my own intellectual understanding as to how I should respond to this person, I find sometimes I am taken into unexpected directions during a witnessing situation. We must remember that God knows the heart of the person that we are witnessing to, we don't.
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The Bible is not like other books. It is unique and it requires one to seek God's help so as to understand it. I usually pray first and after reading any verse i try my best to recall it before closing it. That is how i remember.
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OP was referring to discrepancies that people think are there...
and was saying that she could not remember them when talking about her faith
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It's like everything else: PRACTICE.
In our church, we have an evangelism team and we're constantly doing role playing.
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