Greetings. > The Lord led me to open up His Word after praying. I did something I've > never done before. I grabbed a pen and a journal. As I read over the > verses > of a few chapters of Psalms, I prayed for understanding of the literal > meaning of the WORDS of the verses. Many verses are also allegorical > (Galations 4:24). We can understand deeper spiritual truths and > applications > if we seek them. When I understood something, I wrote it down. When I > understood the depths of the meaning of single words, I wrote it down. I > saw > connections to things I have never seen before. The verses stick with me > now. > > Job 36:22 > Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? Yes, yes, God is a Teacher. That is the truth. > Which brings me back to Biblical Scholarship. >Psalm 139 is very much a > math > Psalm. Verse 3 speaks of compassing. Circles. Verses 17-18 speak of sums > and > counting and numbering. Verse 16 speaks of continuance, which is important > in using Calculus graphs. The concept of nothing is in verse 16. Verse 5 > reminds me of a number-line. The concept of what is called infinity is in > verse 9, as "uttermost." Limits and the lack thereof (infinity) are in > verse > 6. The imperfection in verse 16 is like the incompleteness of a fraction. I looked at what you said and found food for thought. Your comments on the number line made me think of the negative. Zero: nothing (Is 40:17) The negative: less than nothing (Is 40:17) The earth: a circle. A sphere defined as a circle. Geometry: Is 44:13 pi: II Chr 4:2 fraction: breaking Jeremiah 19:11 (this is how I taught Hannah, and myself, fractions when she was five--it carried from that day to this. It was revealed when I had a severe mathematics crisis) add, divide, multiply, take away--all scripture terms. > I was looking up "worship" and "praise" in Wester's 1828 Dictionary to > tell > the difference between the two words. The old definitions are far more > powerful there than the ones taught today. They are specific. The words > "Worship," "Saviour," and countless other words are words extolling only > our > King, King Jesus. I did not realize that this was once the exclusive > meaning > of our words-- worship to our God. Now, dictionaries say worship can be > used > for any deity. This is blasphemous! The 1828 definitions can provide many important insights such as the fact that goats eat coarse food. It does not simply define, it goes further. Arithmetic is included as part of the Calculus sequence. I do not recall what type of Calculus it is called. Cancer and canker come from the same word. Canker is the Bible word for cancer. > Psalm 119:130 > The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the > simple. > > I have a question about reading the book of Job. At the end of the book, > the > LORD spoke and rebuked Job's three foolish friends, for they had not > "spoken > of me [the LORD] the thing that is right." Yet we have what they said > recorded in several chapters. How should we treat their words? Is the > wisdom > of their words foolish, to be thrown out? Or considered carefully, weighed > against the rest of scripture? Job's friends spoke much wisdom--but it was misapplied. God's condemned them for not speaking of him the thing that is right. They did not justify God's acts, they condemned Job wrongly. They misapplied their wisdom. Mephibosheth