I am sorry. I don't mean to get off topic or intrude in your discussion. I agree. I threw away all the books that I owned that taught different interpretations of scripture. I try to stay away from commentaries and rely on the Holy Spirit to teach. Yet, this brings great conflict within me. I am not a teacher. I am a writer and as a writer my passion is to write about Christ. When He reveals something, even if it is something others have known for a long time, I long to share it. For the longest time the Spirit seems to be moving me to interview married women within the church. It seems He is telling me that He will write the book through their words and experiences and lessons, not mine. That I will have no part other than recording and writing down their voice. It seems He is telling me there is wisdom there for other women amongst the gap between newly married women and the mature married women. But why would God want or encourage another book? Why would the Spirit be encouraging this? I have been praying over it and this scripture seems to hold the answer. H. Richard, if you don't mind, what does Ecclesiastes 12: 11-14 speak to you? "The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." We are commanded to "study to show thyself approved". But what about writing books? Is this of the flesh and serves as only a distraction from Christ crucified?