The point is we can only understand what the Holy Spirit reveals to us. Understanding is easy with the right teacher. For sure God is not teasing us. He gave His Word as an operations manual for a successful life. Like the book in the glove box of a new car. The owner’s manual. This is what the Bible is.
Thanks for your comments my friend.
Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Thank you for discussing this with me William @mhm-philippines. It helps me write out some of my thoughts.
Here is my response to the above comment.
Part of understanding more is acknowledging that I don't understand everything and probably never will - as long as I am human, the closest thing to the absolute truth that I can get is partial truths, but I think that goes for the rest of us too.
The Bible might contain a lot of truth but it is still only partial truths since there are other parts of the absolute truth not included in the Bible i.e. germ theory, advanced mathematics and even a lot of the wisdom gained about psychology is not included.
It sounds like you are only interested in the truth and wisdom contained in the Bible, that is fine and it is probably because it works for you. It didn't work for me but I still gained a lot from experimenting with the Bible.
The Kingdom of Heaven for me is Reality.
It is not a place that we have to get to by leaving where we are now - it is the here, there, now & everywhere (a.k.a. in our midst).
It's called the Kingdom of Heaven since it's in the nature of reality to fulfill a person's desires & beliefs (faith), so if we want to change our experiences in reality, change our faith (desires & beliefs) and increase our faith.
That is the message I got from testing the parables of Christ and it is universal, anyone can understand it or follow it.
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