So just who is this God? We as Adam's men, men drawn into certain circumstances, must filter this true God from the vantage point as seen in the kaleidoscope of our natural minds. With that in mind God saw fit to, by His grace, bestow upon us His very Word's. A actual description of all He is, and what we are in His sight and what we became exclusively in His minds eye; through the very person of His Son. If this description or something like it is not a aware part of your Christian personality and open expression you have lost or never had a important communication channel with the living God.
How can we know this to be true, that is His word? Is it only by faith? The answers no. First knowledge must grow within and we all know where that comes from; "by hearing the Word of God"..... this effort produces inwardly the Godly reality of faith! Yes but what does that mean? How do we define it? First we must develop a language we come to understand, we come to rely upon a certain learned world view, a perception of meaning. All honed and influenced by the life surrounding us. What we read, who we know and all other social exposure for that matter. In other words we are shaped as to thought and meaning by our exposure to a certain inviourment.
This is called a Hermeneutic or the minds understanding that makes sense of a given truths presentation or any presentation for that matter. Based upon our becoming convinced, rightly or wrongly. This new or usually gradually learned exposure casts a shadow of meaning to a subject. Hence your Hermeneutic! Now my friends according to God's Word you are living here in growing realization that it is indeed Jesus Christ Himself who is living through you. If this is not a part of your Christian experience at least in hope, then the world has overtaken your self perception and you simply have no chance of a righteous or true hermeneutic!
So the choice is yours. Will you bother to develop a reliable Godly Hermeneutic? Which God will supply as you study His Word. Just as He has all other things pertaining to life. So that you may honor God and enjoy His blessings, carrying on His Sons life on earth. Or perhaps you have a hermeneutic garnered from listing to others and simply repeating their behaviors, [as most] in which case you may be in great need to be responsible enough and also brave enough to challenge it as a individual. You could be stuck awhile if you are immersed in a Christian like works sect busily preparing themselves for Christ's return, or merged in mind with the worlds affairs.
At any rate few will read this and be convicted to search the scriptures on their own I fear. While I still have great hope; yet I can not but help having doubt few will take it to heart by my urging. So Ill leave you with this, God's own Words on the subject: "According as His divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. [HOW?] through the KNOWLEDGE of Him that has called us to glory and virtue 2 Pet. 1:3.
her·me·neu·tics
ˌhərməˈn(y)o͞odiks/
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