ScottA
Well-Known Member
Granted, teachers and preachers cannot always cover everything they may touch upon--but God has done better, and many speak as if their partial understanding of what is written is all that God has inspired to be written...even contradicting other relative passages while making claims and assertions.Hmmm. Sounds like too much is expected of teachers and preachers, if that is the case.
Not only are teachers and preachers imperfect human beings, long ago online I rejected the stated expectation that all my posts should be comprehensive in scope. Likewise, teachers and preachers only have a short amount of time. Of course they are not including all that is written on a given topic.
While focusing on one thing, they may touch tangentially on another.
One annoying observation I've been about such discussions is the anxiety that not everything is defined in said discussion. It makes communication impossible if we are not already speaking the same language with the words already defined prior to the discussion's beginning. For instance, Jesus said, 'take the plank out of your own eye before taking the speck out of your brother's eye.' It is memorable precisely because of its brevity.
If he included the definition of every word and all that was written about every word, it would be a forgettable mess.
When I was in school, students had the burden to figure it out for themselves - and ask questions to guide them in their self discovery. Now, the teacher is blamed for not closing the knowledge gap of all the students - a completely unrealistic expectation.
Having said that, I don't think this is the case. That is, I don't think the thread is about that. In life, we have to make choices despite not having all the information. (It is a coping skill that is being simultaneously undermined in another thread.) In fact, making decisions in the face of ambiguity is a hot topic in business, military and politics as witnessed in the recent global pandemic.
But here you do the same thing you accuse @Episkopos of doing...not accepting the burden of figuring out what he may have left out, and not rather asking questions, but making accusation.
Maybe we should start over.