Proverbs 1
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
If you want to play the silly quotemine game, remember that I have been doing it longer than you and I am likely better at it.
The various Bibles are a big ass resource written by a blue brazillion different authors and redacted by a gaggle more then translated by another band of merry (need I say Gay) men.
What ever point you happen to want to support, or refute, you can cobble together some quotes from the Bible to prove your point.
In the end, you have nothing.
If you are not to be a fool despising wisdom and discipline, you need to learn to think, examine and question on your own.
Did you even continue reading Proverb 3? I doubt it, because if you had you would have found...
13 Blessed is the man who finds wisdom,
the man who gains understanding,
14 for she is more profitable than silver
and yields better returns than gold.
and
21 My son, preserve sound judgment and discernment,
do not let them out of your sight;
22 they will be life for you,
an ornament to grace your neck.
and
35 The wise inherit honor,
but fools he holds up to shame.
Read all of the material Phat, don't just skim and grab some part out of context as though it supports your position because it is likely that there is a reader out there who actually has read the whole thing.
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Is it possible to accept full responsibility for all of our own actions and at the same time "not be wise in our own eyes"?
Of course. In fact, what do the two even have to do with each other? Who other than you should be responsible for your own actions?
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Is it possible to accept responsibility for what we do and still "lean not on our own understanding"?
In the end, as Proverbs 3 actually says if you read the whole thing, it is only what you know that you can work with. Again, how does accepting responsibility exclude understanding? Don't you think when you do something wrong it might be a good idea to understand what it was and why it was wrong?
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How do you interpret the meaning behind the wisdom of the Proverb?
Did you actually read the Proverb or are you asking me to address the little quotemined part you posted?
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Why is it that you always make me explain myself further? In so doing, you force me to conform to your logic, reason, and reality standards rather than simply using your intuitive speculations on what I am talking about!
Because I thought the goal was to actually answer and discuss and not for me to just intuit what I think you are saying.
By the way Phat, the whole series, Proverbs 1 through 4 are on guess what,
The value of wisdom. They are about learning from those who went before you, on the value of knowledge, on the need to continue learning, on how wisdom is more valuable than gold or anything else, yet you pulled one little piece out of context as though it opposed wisdom.
Even the passage you quoted is only saying "Don't think you know it all."
Why do so many of the CCOI folk choose to quotemine? Do they really think that just because they don't read the whole thing that others do not? Just because they do not get challenged when in the Christian Communion of Bobbleheads, do they really think the rest of us will just sit and nod?
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