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Originally Posted by Exodus16
Thanks Ohio,
"The Berean believers were commended for examining the scriptures daily"
I've seen these guys referenced on this forum, but have never heard of them prior to this week - who are they?
Exodus16
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It's from Acts 17:11. Some Jews who, instead of reacting reflexively to Paul's declaration of Jesus as Messiah, whether Yeah or Nay, went into scripture and examined. The idea connoted to me is to examine objectively, neither looking to prove nor disprove. Such objectivity is very hard to come by. Usually we make up our mind on something (My Daddy was a Democrat and I always vote Democrat) and that is it. In our minds the world has been fashioned thusly and we are unable to move from that.
Conversely, while the Bereans were eager to hear and even receive, but "they went to the Scripture to see if these things were true."
I have discussed in some depth how oriental culture steeped through the local church of Witness Lee. It went unexamined. It was so ingrained in Lee that he couldn't see it. Once you are blind to something you can read the Bible 50 times and be blind to the words right in front of you. Because they couldn't possibly mean what they appear to be saying. It's really pretty phenomenal, how we can be so blind. We may read the Scripture daily, but we don't "see if these things are true", because according to our cultural preconceptions, they couldn't possibly be true.
See the thread "The Asian Mind and the Western Mind".