With the exception of prophecy, and it's inherrant symbolism, anything written in any Bible - In my humble opinion - was so translated and so provided by God as to provide a simple understanding to anyone - be they "schooled or not schooled" - who sincerely wishes to understand it. It does not take scholars to decipher it for us. It does not take Strong's word definitions to decipher it for us, and it takes ABSOLUTELY NOTHING extra-biblical for us to gain the gist of what is being relayed to us. THAT is a FACT! Proven throughout christian history.[sup]1 Cor 14:26[/sup] How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. [sup]27[/sup] If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. [sup]28[/sup] But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. [sup]29[/sup] Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.
I would propose that Scripture is simple. If you open the refrigerator and state the food is "cool", then you use one context of that word (i.e., the concise Feminine text). However, if you say a car is "cool" you use a different context of that word, (i.e., the inconcise Masculine text). And where Scripture CLEARLY uses the inconcise text, who is it that interprets it as though it were the concise? Is this person either ignorant of language conventions or is there an agenda which defies what the AUTHOR intended?!?
But of course, if GOD's use of the Masculine text is too difficult a concept to grasp then maybe GOD is so far above us that we can never comprehend HIS Word, and HE is simply playing games with HIS creation.
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As to prophetic understanding....Ron Morgan may be right. Prophetic understanding may be revealed by direct teaching from the Holy Spirit only. For if it did not come in that manner, then maybe we wouldn't have 200 million different interpretations of prophecy by the multitude of well-intentioned individuals who try to interpret it. Who is the authority on earth who will finally set-straight the interpretation of prophecy? And will we listen to him when he comes?