In getting back with the point of the blog, here is the latest post.  In my daily reading, I came across this piece of writing by Robert H. Boll, from his essays titled, Truth and Grace.  In my studying, and many others I have talked to, there is always a quest to find the truth from God’s Word.  As we look around at how sectioned off Christianity has become, one must ask…How are there so many separate truths?  I also know it to be unfashionable these days to say there is a right and a wrong, but there are some that are just plain wrong.  As with most of the things I have looked at we need to learn to filter ourselves out of what we are reading.  As humans we have the ability to justify and twist things to see them how we wish, but that is certainly not the purpose of the Word being revealed to us.  We must not be afraid to hear the Word of God, but we must be careful not to make it into the Words of man….

PROGRESS IN THE TRUTH.

We must not digress, but we must progress. We must not overstep the bounds of God’s word, but we must go on in it. We must not abandon the first principles but leave them as the mason leaves the foundation and goes on to perfect the building of the house. To the man who comes to seek, it will continually reveal new truths and new light on old truths. But if one goes on the preconception that he has about the sum of the truth already, and studies the he Bible in that light, it will yield him nothing. He will be hardened and blinded and become a sectarian though he may never have a written creed. The unwritten can become just as contracted, unscriptural, tyrannical. As one of our beloved and venerable brethren sometimes says in the pulpit: “We are not right, but the Bible is right.” So it is ours to go to God’s word daily, with open eyes and ears and hearts and in poverty of spirit, not to confirm our ideas, but to get God’s. One of the first results will be the sense of unbounded riches and privileges of which we have never availed ourselves. Another effect will be to humble us and to take some of the censoriousness and self-conceit, with which we are always apt to be afflicted, out of us.

Robert H. Boll
Truth and Grace (1917)