@spendius,
Quote:I think that understanding Jesus is very difficult because we know so little about Him before He embarked on His mission to inaugurate the Kingdom of God here on earth and the conditions He experienced in those 30 years.
I don't believe it is how much we know, but how well we understand what little we do know.
Quote: The Romans thought 35 to be the prime of life for a man and restricted the Consulship to those who had reached that age. I read that the US Constitution followed that age qualification for some top posts. Others think 33 but the Romans usually erred on the side of caution.
I believe the ability to understand comes with time not age along with having the proper guidance.
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The sense of having understood something is pleasant. Although how one was begotten is a bit of a shock to some.
Begotten as in; be·got·ten [bih-got-n]—verb
a past participle of beget.
beget
verb
create, bear
Synonyms: afford, breed, bring, bring about, cause, effect, engender, father, generate, get, give rise to, multiply, occasion, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce, result in, sire
created, brought about, effected?
un·der·stand [uhn-der-stand]—verb (used with object), un·der·stood, un·der·stand·ing.
to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
to be thoroughly familiar with; apprehend clearly the character, nature, or subtleties of: to understand a trade.
to assign a meaning to; interpret: He understood her suggestion as a complaint.to grasp the significance, implications, or importance of: He does not understand responsibility.
to regard as firmly communicated; take as agreed or settled: I understand that you will repay this loan in 30 days.to learn or hear: I understand that you are going out of town.
to accept as true; believe: I understand that you are trying to be truthful, but you are wrong.
to construe in a particular way: You are to understand the phrase literally.to supply mentally (something that is not expressed).
I'm not sure if you can grasp an understanding as to how the two definitions go together/fall into one another/collide/mix well, I don't think I can come up with the perfect or right word for it. The birth, creation of Jesus Christ was a miracle he was a gift to us the people on earth from God.
As in?: Hence
, one
((Mr. A)) is tempted to think one
((Mr.A)) understands something too easily because we seek pleasant feelings
.. and pleasant feelings are a conditioning agent which leads us to be impatient with questions which might show that our understanding is incorrect.
But questions when in doubt is very helpful for Mr. A to help him better understand because he should not be ashamed of the fact that he is unsure, uncertain, doubtful, else similar... he being ashamed of his uncertainty will lead, may have led to his anger, severe anger, unsatisfaction and so forth. Our impatience being a function of the amount of such conditioning we have induced in ourselves by having understood something.
The reasoning as to why we must want to understand verses the want to assume, have false ideas, thoughts, etc. In fact the pleasant feeling can be induced,
persuaded, brought about, influenced, increased by pretending to have understood something.
Right.
Forgive me but you must keep in mind that the best of education knowledge I have is I guess you could say since high school which was about six years ago. About two years ago say about five to six months into attending an academy, along with soon after attending maybe half a day of the first day of college I quit due to the amount of stress I was enduring at the given times that was building up in my head adding to the mental situation, grief, mental suffering I had been suffering already.
Quote:One thing untold numbers of conversations in pubs taught me was that I didn't understand anything. And that nobody else did either.
The want to understand is neglected.
