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Originally Posted by aron
I give the same advice I'd give to any newbie. Read the 4 gospels until you are blue in the face. Read them until you can say the next line before Jesus says it. Only with that level of familiarity can you safely venture further afield.
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Bro Aron, I want to thank you for this statement. This has been my feeling, desire and practice since leaving. I've been reading a different (to me) version of the NT that is causing me to appreciate and love my Jesus in a fresh way. I stopped reading the RcV with footnotes because I had a sense that the notes were blinders (the kind put on a horse to keep him from looking away) that only focussed on WL opinions and views. To me the intent of LSM is to restrict the Spirit's speaking to only that which WL saw, but the Spirit is so rich and so wanting to exalt Christ that His work can never be restricted to the feelings and opinions of one man like WL.