is there a limit to how much a person should study the things of God...? at what point do we start making things up in order to sound important or to explain away the things that are unexplainable?
this is not a license for ignorance but these questions are starting to find their way into my head as i spend more and more time studying the various theories that 'scholars' have posited regarding how we should view the Bible and theologies. i'm starting to wonder if the amount of energy that i am dedicating to wrapping my head around deep theological/philosophical problems is keeping me from using that same energy for simply loving people...
i'm sure i am just venting my frustrations with the amount of schoolwork that i am trying to do but these questions are still floating nonetheless...
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It seems all schools are the same, the teachers have had to buy into a system and now seem to feel obligated to force the students to adhere to what they had to go through. When I was in college the standard line was it's only four years of your life and at the end of it, if we the teachers have done our job well, you the students will continue to give up your life to a system. work long hours to acquire a morgage and car loans and to get your kids into the system of giving up their lives to a system ( around here teachers are stressing the knowledge of needing and using a schedual planner to public school students ). So to me it sounds like your heart is starting to tell your head to live and love, the study and learning never stops of course, but it moves out into our world. I'm not paticularly religious, to me the message has tended towards getting out into your community and interacting: talk, listen, teach, learn, help, laugh, work, dream, sleep... and on and on. Such a wonderful gift that has been given to us, this thing we call life.
It seems all schools are the same, the teachers have had to buy into a system and now seem to feel obligated to force the students to adhere to what they had to go through. When I was in college the standard line was it's only four years of your life and at the end of it, if we the teachers have done our job well, you the students will continue to give up your life to a system. work long hours to acquire a morgage and car loans and to get your kids into the system of giving up their lives to a system ( around here teachers are stressing the knowledge of needing and using a schedual planner to public school students ). So to me it sounds like your heart is starting to tell your head to live and love, the study and learning never stops of course, but it moves out into our world. I'm not paticularly religious, to me the message has tended towards getting out into your community and interact: talk, teach, learn, help, laugh, work, dream, sleep... and on and on. Such a wonderful gift that has been given to us, this thing we call life.
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