Matthew Currier
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
Isaac Newton
This work is a compilation of the biblical information that has been distilled through me. The Logos, and God’s revelation of it via the Bible, is the only truly unfathomable material worth plumbing. It is with the utmost sobriety and modesty I can muster that I present these works publically. There are bound to a multitude of typos and errors, both of the grammatical and theological variety. However, it behooves me to record what I have learned (much as possible) as freely and completely as possible. A great effort has been done toward my salvation and it wouldn’t do to waste that cost.
There are many patterns in Scripture. If these patterns are divinely inspired then they will be approachable and digestable inasmuch as God wants them to be. This method involves four ways of gleaning this information:
These approaches can be applied to the book as a whole, to passages, or to topics. More on this method in How to Study Your Bible
There are various notes and studies that attempt to do this- hopefully the format is easily digestable and will motivate people to pursue God. Apologies for the earlier stuff that is a journaled and scatter-brained.
I believe in a personal God, the God of the Bible.
I believe that He speaks through His Word to us and the most salient points are revealed to us by His Spirit.
I believe that it is okay if there are things about Him that we don’t fully understand but the essential things are knowable by all.
I believe that He is holy, good, and just: but also, thankfully, merciful and gracious; but we cannot fully know any of these things.
I believe that we cannot stand in His presence in our natural state and that is a purposeful dilemma designed to draw us to ask, “Why?”