Lonely For Deeper Bible Study

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It is difficult to find anyone with which to discuss deep theology. I have approached the clergy throughout the years but am immediately dismissed. Perhaps it’s because they’ve listened to some bazaar “insight” from others or maybe they think I want to create controversy with a commonly held doctrine—or maybe it’s because I’m a woman?

So get with Christian women you say?  They want to study practical living, personal growth, character studies, overcoming anxiety, etc.  Or, heaven forbid, “enditmes” to which they are ill informed or ill prepared.

I want to leave the basics and go on unto perfection, as the writer of Hebrews tells us to do..  Let us talk about the Glorious Kingdom.  Let’s read and discuss , for example, Psalm 48:2 or Psalm 50:2

Beautiful for situation the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion on the sides of the North, the city of the great king.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Do you even know who/what Zion is? The loftiness of this spiritual entity is beyond measure! Of course, I don’t understand it fully myself, but that’s my point. I want to discuss and learn. Thank goodness for on-line ministers who are gracious enough to share their teaching. Still, it’s not the same as a personal conversation.

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Jill Jordan

It was at the last hour, so to speak, while building the website to feature my father’s writing, that I decided to add my own blog. Yes, occasionally I get an insight into the scriptures that is worthy to mention. From Dad I learned a style of bible study that uses the entire bible, linking like phrases together, even if they don’t immediately appear to go together. (Thus the importance of a good chain reference feature). The results are quite rewarding. As St. Augustine is credited as saying: The new [Testament] is in the old concealed; the old [Testament] is in the new revealed.
To further expand on that thought, Dad was a firm believer that the bible does not ask a question that it does not answer somewhere else in the scriptures and that symbols and definitions hold true throughout the entire Bible. These ideas have greatly enhanced my understanding of the bible and theology.

Having said all that, I’ll say this: I hope I can do C. Leo Jordan proud.

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