Thank you for that. Yes, I routinely use the Blue Letter Bible. I find it a useful resource, since I don't have the experience of the Bible that many Christians do. It has a powerful range of aids.
You're welcome Brother. I'm just being honest and I don't know it all. The BLB is an awesome resource, and many times I have looked things up, just to realize, wow I had that all wrong! Because the translators of it uh tried their best I guess, but knowing a language and it's subtleties is something that most of us don't have (at least with ancient Greek and Hebrew!) so many times, passages can be interpreted wrongly because of it. The best discussions are where participants have more academic (?) desire than pride or ego. I try to have this open minded academic honesty in effort to grow more knowledgeable and wiser rather than merely play games of I'm right huh huh huh. Anyone can be wrong and anyone can be right, to a degree. I have many faults and am wrong here and there just like everyone else. No better than anyone. (I've even learned a 'little bit' from obvious false prophets before, just because, the best lies are couched in the truth). The big difference in people, is...are they really trying to learn, so have academic integrity, or are they just trying to be right at any cost? These are easily recognizable people because most of the time, when someone makes a decent point...the regress into slurs and attacks rather than having a little honor and be honest. Eh, I try.
There are two issues here:
- There are fraudulent scientists; there are incompetent scientists; there are scientists who jump to conclusions a little too early. However, the immense strength of science is that nothing is taken for granted. Experiments and observations must be repeatable. And they are repeated by diverse researchers before they are accepted. And scientists love to prove each other wrong, so there is immense effort to question just about everything. This makes it difficult for a faulty idea to last for very long.
- The science community could do a much better job of educating the public. Mikaku doesn't have a great reputation among scientists as far as I can tell. Too flamboyant and attention seeking. Tyson seems to be much more accepted. More needs to be done. (More could be done if we weren't fighting creationists all the time.
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1. Well, true that, however, they do know that if a lie is repeated long enough that it will be believed by academically lazy people. and the do have an agenda to 'hide God' and steer people away from Him. So just because like say, Darwinism for example...has been repeated for so long...doesn't really make it true. Lol. Agreed?
2. They could do a much better job than they do (if they didn't have the agenda!). My understanding is that the American Government, is somewhere along the lines of 50 to 75 years ahead of the mainstream as far as knowledge and technology goes. But they do not want to help and educate people, they choose to dumb us down in effort to enslave us. (People don't realize it, but I think the ancient Israelite's who were enslaved to Egypt for 400 years...had it much better than we do. It's that bad for us.)
I think Einstein was a Government shill too. Nikolai Tesla wanted to help people. But he wasn't on the payroll. Einstein was asked once, how's it feel to be the smartest man in the world? Einstein said, I don't know, you'll have to ask Nikolai Tesla...It's the same thing with scientists nowadays. The ones on the payroll play ball, and the others which aren't, are not because they speak truth. So the truth is out there, we just have to dig for it by bits and pieces. And be willing to say that's absurd, when it is.
The important thing for us, is to choose what's worth spending valuable time and what is not.
