Greetings to you brethren. Today, I am here again to share with us my review on this wonderful topic that everyone of us much pounder on. In this lesson Brother Eli Soriano share with us why most well-educated people in the society are ignorant of the Bible.
According to Brother Eli, God did not give the understanding of His words to everyone. But as it supposed, we will assume that well-edicated people would understand the Bible so well than others. However, some of the most learned people in society are completely ignorant of the Bible. It's also practically true that everyone on Earth can be considered to be ignorant of the Bible.
In practice, there are people who knows the Bible because they read and preach with it daily. Some also did the translation of the Bible into different languages. Nevertheless, we can still see ignorance of the words of God in many places including churches.. This is so, because many people do not understand the words of God.
Being ignorant of the Bible is not about not reading the Bible. Many people including those who are well-educated can read and still would not understand, this is because the knowledge of the words of God is beyond the canal mind.
The book of Isaiah 29:11 explains further why it's difficult for everyone to understand the words of God in the Bible. Let's read it.
Isaiah 29:11-13 (KJV)
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
We see in the above scriptures something interesting. The vision is become as the words of a book that is sealed which men deliver to one that is learned. This can be a medical doctor, engineer, bishop, theologian etc. But, these set of people though they are highly educated cannot read the book because it's sealed.
There is something we need to understand here. Those two phrases "cannot read" and "sealed" are very symbolic. They cannot read do not mean that they don't know how to read, but that their understanding is darkened . It's sealed implied that they don't know the interpretation of the words of God.
Understanding the Bible is not a matter of education or theological qualifications. It's a spiritual matter. It's God who gives the wisdom to a person to read and understand the Bible. It's the help of the almighty God through the Holy spirit that we can be able to read and understand the Bible. This is why the Bible says in the book of 2 Corinthians 3:6 "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
It's the Holy spirit that gives understanding of the words of God not the level of education a person have. This is why there are false teachers of the Bible, because they read but don't understand, and thus teach their shallowness.
There are also the forces of Satan that darkened the minds of people so that they don't understand the Bible. We see that in the book of 2 Corinthians 4:4. It says, "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
The God of this world which is Satan has blinded the minds of those who do not believe that the glorious light of the gospel may not be able to save them. We see here, that there is someone responsible for people not to understand the words of God, that person is Satan.
Satan has blinded the minds of so many people not to understand the words of God, and majority of these people are those who are highly educated in society. Only those who are wise or believe shall understand the Bible because they have the spirit of God in them. But the highly educated in society shall remain ignorant of the words of God and the Bible
The Bible is a spiritual book, and only those who are redeemed and have the spirit of God can read and understand.
