Going to the source
Have you ever played that silly game where someone whispers something into one person’s ear and then that person whispers that same message in the next person’s ear? Then message passes down the line people and suddenly at the end of the line the 3 sentence messages is one sentence and chances are it isn’t even close to what the originally message was?
We also get this same scenario in nature. If you follow a food chain, the levels of certain nutrients diminish as you go down the chain. In every chain there is a loss of matter and energy at each level, sometimes even as much as 90% [1]. If I were to choose to eat a rabbit meat instead of the green vegetation that it eats, I’m not going to get as much iron as the rabbit got.
You could probably use this as a defense for vegetarianism, but that’s not my point. The point is that the farther you go from the source the more diluted the message will be. The farther you get from the bible’s message the more diluted the message will be. I would like to get my conviction from the bible instead of what some preacher said about what some person wrote about a book in the bible.
No, I don’t have a theology degree and chances are you don’t either. But, I figure, if we go through the bible together we might catch something that the preacher who read the book about some book in the bible might have missed. If you are up for the challenge, with my next post, I’d like to start with the book of Proverbs.
Love Peace and Afro Grease,
Ivonne
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