The greatest scholars in the world cannot understand this book. People have come up with whatever religion, philosophy and thoughts their minds wanted to imagine using this book. Looking at the scores of different commentaries written in an attempt to explain the meaning of the Bible only proves my point. My point is that this book is no ordinary book and if you think it is, your understanding of it will fall into the same category as most people. However, there is a remnant of people scattered throughout this planet that seem to be able to interpret the deeper meanings in the same light. Before I talk about just who this remnant is, lets take a look at this book and see what it teaches about who can or cannot understand it.
Lets take a look at the letter to the Corinthians, written by the Apostle Paul to the church in Corinth. Corinth, at that time, was a place of higher learning, with scholarly institutions and was the home of many philosophers. Chapter 1&2 of 1 Corinthians make it clear on what type of people God chose to constitute His Church, or His people. The first chapter reveals that the LORD, for the most part, is not using highly intellectual people. It goes on to say that God is not calling to His Church those who are scholars or philosophers. Well, what kinds of people are being called by the LORD to become followers of His? The writer goes on to say that the LORD uses what seems like the foolish things of this world so that the glory goes to Him and not to us. So God calls the seemingly weak things of this world; those that seem to be ignorant, or without great abilities. Why? Because humility, brokenness and the fear of God are qualities, throughout the Bible, that are prerequisites for humanity in order to draw near to God. It appears that the more highly a person thinks of himself, the less the LORD will think about that person. What the writer is telling us is that the LORD is not revealing Himself to those who think they are high and mighty in this world; that happens to be those that are typically rich, scholarly and superior to others. The issue is humility and that comes, usually among the poor and needy and those rejected by most.
Because the world is filled with people who call themselves Christians and yet have never been broken and surrendered before the LORD, many do not have the ability to understand the meaning of His Word. The second chapter of 1 Corinthians in the 14 verse makes it clear that the natural man cannot comprehend or interpret it; for that person must be born of the Spirit. For the book must be spiritually discerned. So, this small remnant of true believers or true Christians is those that have been delivered from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, (Col. 1:13); those that have truly repented from their sins, and completely turned to Christ, (Acts 2:38); those that are truly born again, (John 3); those that truly can hear the voice of the LORD, (John 10:27); those that can truly understand the Word of God by the power of the Holy Spirit, (John 14:26). For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that who ever believes in shall have eternal life, (John 3:16); this means for anyone who will put their trust in Him and surrender your life to Him.
Lets take a look at the letter to the Corinthians, written by the Apostle Paul to the church in Corinth. Corinth, at that time, was a place of higher learning, with scholarly institutions and was the home of many philosophers. Chapter 1&2 of 1 Corinthians make it clear on what type of people God chose to constitute His Church, or His people. The first chapter reveals that the LORD, for the most part, is not using highly intellectual people. It goes on to say that God is not calling to His Church those who are scholars or philosophers. Well, what kinds of people are being called by the LORD to become followers of His? The writer goes on to say that the LORD uses what seems like the foolish things of this world so that the glory goes to Him and not to us. So God calls the seemingly weak things of this world; those that seem to be ignorant, or without great abilities. Why? Because humility, brokenness and the fear of God are qualities, throughout the Bible, that are prerequisites for humanity in order to draw near to God. It appears that the more highly a person thinks of himself, the less the LORD will think about that person. What the writer is telling us is that the LORD is not revealing Himself to those who think they are high and mighty in this world; that happens to be those that are typically rich, scholarly and superior to others. The issue is humility and that comes, usually among the poor and needy and those rejected by most.
Because the world is filled with people who call themselves Christians and yet have never been broken and surrendered before the LORD, many do not have the ability to understand the meaning of His Word. The second chapter of 1 Corinthians in the 14 verse makes it clear that the natural man cannot comprehend or interpret it; for that person must be born of the Spirit. For the book must be spiritually discerned. So, this small remnant of true believers or true Christians is those that have been delivered from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, (Col. 1:13); those that have truly repented from their sins, and completely turned to Christ, (Acts 2:38); those that are truly born again, (John 3); those that truly can hear the voice of the LORD, (John 10:27); those that can truly understand the Word of God by the power of the Holy Spirit, (John 14:26). For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that who ever believes in shall have eternal life, (John 3:16); this means for anyone who will put their trust in Him and surrender your life to Him.
