Chapters 1
2
3
subtitled:
Insight To Circles
I want to take this opportunity to talk about the way different people process information intellectully. Once upon a time I thought in straight lines, much like the way we were taught in school. Learn a fact, place that fact in our mind "storage device" on a stack, and as we recall a piece of information we pull it out and blast it out of our pencil or mouth per our teachers instruction.
After I became a christian I received some enlightening wisdom from a different denominational good ole boy. "Text without pretext, is out of context.". Now at the time that good ole boy really ruffled my feathers. But as I've grown and learned I've realized the Author Of All We Know was using him to teach me a new way of thinking.
Chapter 2
Have you heard the saying "What goes around comes around."? Well that circle has nothing to do with it. That circle is the wrong kind of circle. Yes it is a circle, it goes all the way around and back to from whence it came. Yes. It's head goes all the way around to touch it's toes.
But that circle is not the type of circle I'm talking about. That circle has sharp turns like a octagon, hexagon or even a square. That circle has sharp turns to get back to it's point of origin. But then it should. If one sows bad seed then they should by all rights reap a diffcult
harvest. They would have sharp turns and difficulties getting their circle complete. They earned it. For real, they own a very rough road to hoe.
Why am I calling an octagon. hexagon and a sqaure a circle? They all start at the beginning and afterward make a 360 degree turn back to the point of oragin. Very much like a circle, except unlike a circle they are infested with complications to return their completion. It is very much that way for us when we think in straight lines, as we were taught. So many loose ends and just facts to file somewhere, anywhere, just put them in your storage device, stack them up, compile them. Our computers are instructed the same way.
The circle is first filled with Alpfa and Omega. The beginning and the end. Smooth sides, no complicated turns.
Chapter 3
I hope I haven't lost you so far. It was important to build a background of round thinking. Or may I boldly say the Pretext was critcal to establish the Present Text. We find round thinking as I've revaled to be a foreign concept. At first glance it defiys all we know.
The old time saying of "what goes around comes around" is so well known and accepted it's easy to work with to start the Thinking in Circles process. We can relate. It always comes down to, the beginning comes back to the end. And if it's worldly then it has many twist and turns.
Now that I have said that it would be prudent to reiterate the point "Text without pretext is out of context.". What does that mean? It address the fact we can not pull scripture out and leave it free standing. It must be viewed in the text it was written or it is not complete. The Bible is not a collection of free standing ideas alone, or independant of each other. Every avenue you persue in scripture is only complete when you have all other relevant scripture to suport it. To think in circles is to aquire a better understanding of what God said.Circles is to get on a topic and exhaust all verses pertaining to it
Creating not a list of facts, but to organize them in a fashion of continuity of understanding in your heart and mind. Thus the beginning meets the end, without twist or turns. Everything must fit together perfactly or you are not at the end of the problem YET. Your missing some information and none of God's words are to be left out.Can you see:
CONTINITUY OF ARC,
SMOOTH, A CIRCLE?
The End......... Or Better,
The
BEGINNING OF A NEW
COMPREHENSION.
Timothy G. Me