A woman broadcasts nutrition “information” on YouTube. She lifted part of a study that claims oatmeal is harmful to your health that mainstream media reported.
Many published research papers show the many benefits of eating oatmeal—it has fiber of which most Americans eat way too little; it appears to help regulate glucose; it helps decrease one type of cholesterol (I am a sample of one there).
We do that with theology, too, don’t we? You know who you are. You who lifted one verse from the Bible or other spiritual work and constructed a theology around it. The end of the earth, the role of women, the superiority of certain races.
Discernment—perceive, understand, and judge things correctly. Maybe it means reading an entire paragraph, or the entire passage, or letter, or book. After finding context and checking translations, perhaps we lay people can achieve a partial understanding of the breadth and depth of God.
So many learned and intelligent men have written lengthy systematic theologies beginning with the Bible. And they all differ. What hubris do you have thinking you can know it all?
Humility is the beginning of understanding.
Faith Venture 
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