Curing shallowness

The only cure for shallowness is the oceanic word of God. That and having the fear of God alone and nothing of the fear of man. Just having a physical Bible is not enough. You have to have a humble approach to the Bible. You have to fear God alone. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

The priesthood of scholars, and those of you who so eagerly and obsequiously follow them, and appeal to them, don't have a fear of God. They reverence their own asinine selves. The one thing they most refuse to do is what? Except the Received Text. Why? Because it takes away their perceived power to dictate to the word of God what it is, what it will be, what it's worth is, what it means, etc., and to lord it over all the fools who would give them the time of day to begin with.

To put it concisely: they consider the word of God to need *them* more than they need *it.*

If you're engaging the Bible - at all, to any degree - while seeing it as a mere document that needs man to determine its very existence and that is something you *look down on* in the sense that you would judge a novel or work of history written by man, then you will get nothing from the living word of God. Can you approach a mutilated Bible humbly and get anything from it? Of course you can. Depends on how mutilated, of course, and the critical text scholars are getting more and more wickedly brazen in how much they are willing to mutiliate their products these days. It's been progressive, so it will get worse, if that can be imagined.

But once you know of the existence of the Received Text and you dismiss it then you are in territory that is defined by your pride, your asinine vanity, and your desire to live in darkness to protect what your fallen nature is demanding.

Let's go further here... People who reject the Received Text after knowing about it don't even have a real connection to the Bible. They don't truly read it for guidance and understanding and for taking in something that is higher than them. They 'access' it for whatever worldly job they are doing at the moment. The Bible never takes over their lives, it is always something to be used for their worldly power and means. They characteristically never get the living language of the Bible, they never see inner meanings and interconnections, they mostly engage in the debunkers game of constantly having to be seen as more smart, less 'easily fooled', better at debate (all shallow, empty victories only impressive in the eyes of a shallow audience and world). They also never connect with the literary aspects of the word of God. The Bible to them is like today's newpaper. They deny even that anything literary carries any meaning beyond what a newspaper would carry. Again, they are shallow. Shallow in many ways, and shallowness within Christian environments carries water for the devil as much as any active evil does.