Still Without Understanding

  That's it! So short.  Man, so much packed into those few pages. The life of creation. The Son of Man. Everything...well, everything we have. The other parts of the Bible are a great reference; but concentrate on the four Gospels. Ask questions and seek answers. Use the most powerful entity available: your own mind! Critical reasoning will follow.

  We must include critical QUESTIONING in our list of critical actions--Socratic Questioning, part of the Socratic Method. Once we have a question we can move on to the other critical actions of reading, thinking and reasoning. I have added the image of Socrates because he is considered The Father of Critical Thinking. Using all these critical actions allows us to dig deeper into the Gospels and possibly find answers that may have remained misunderstood. Do you think the Church (any and all denominations) are still reading and studying the Gospels with the guidance of the Socratic Method? I don't.  In the Forward: Day by Day publication for October 26, 2025, the author of that day's discussion asked: "What might God be trying to show you that you don't already know?" THE Church (all denominations) should be continually asking that question of The Church.  Also consider (my opinion as always): If you read the entire Bible, Old and New Testament, EXCEPT the four Gos...

Leading into my next blog post about critical reading, thinking and reasoning, look at these short and simple, yet absolutely critical 6 words to Jesus' mission: Jesus told the leaders of the faith (more than once) during his physical existence on earth: "You are wrong." (Mark 12:24, Matthew 22:29) and he said to everyone: "Love one another." (John 13:34) Jesus first had to stop the 'wrong' teaching and then he gave what I consider to be THE commandment. We can study the impact of these 6 words in the next post. What has Socrates got to do with critical understanding of the Gospels? Everything.