What does "study" mean to you?

Question

As in "Bible study", but also in "studying history", "studying literature", etc.

I'll go first: studying (and I do a lot of it) is about looking at ideas from as many perspectives as possible. Say I want to study George Eliot's Middlemarch, there are many pubilshed criticisms about her work that I can consult, and now I know the novel quite well, I can consider their points of view (which often disagree quite dramatically) and arrive at my own. Same if I want to study the philosophy of ethics, or the history of wigs, or whatever floats your boat.

Is this how people "study" the Bible? What does "study" mean to you?

BCB! How've you been?! It's not so sunny where you are, I see! We have so much to catch up on!

Answer 1

For me it is a four-step process:

1) Read (The text - whatever, Bible, book, history...)

2) Mark (A habit I picked up in college)

3) Learn (See what others have said - especially learned men in the field)

4) Inwardly digest. (Chew it up, wrestle with it, struggle, think, reason)

Answer 2

For some, "studying the Bible" simply means that they reread passages and talk about them with other people of the exact same belief over and over again. For others, it means reading about the history, the different translations and the cultures that spawned them, and reading other literature or texts. The later is obviously what you and I would call study but for some, indoctrination requires more repetition.

Answer 3

It means I break out the Strong's concordance, my Greek-English Lexicon, my Interlinear Hebrew and then I PRAY for guidance,wisdom and insight before I open the Word.

Answer 4

What a surprising question. faith is, of direction, the type that one's worship takes. for this reason there are hundreds of varieties. faith contains a device of religious ideals and practices. the article of the religion could be fake gods or the actual God. hence, there is fake faith and there is actual. faith can get very fancy or stay undemanding. in the former case, which comprise it extremely is immediately. in the latter case, which comprise it replaced into in the backyard of Eden. What then is worship to me? How do I worship? To worship skill to obey. And to obey skill to worship. the two are intimately related; certainly, they are coterminous and can't be separated. noticeably, to obey the Sovereign Lord God Jehovah of Armies is to worship Him. I do my imperfect perfect in this regard. I fall on my face and come back as much as attempt and attempt returned. in the backyard of Eden, see you later as they obeyed Jehovah, Adam and Eve have been worshiping him. No temple, no Mosaic regulation, no conferences. in basic terms go away the tree of the understanding of stable and undesirable on my own. undemanding. The minute they disobeyed, they stopped worshiping Jehovah. comparable with the rustic of Israel. The minute they tried to coach a syncretistic faith they stopped worshiping Jehovah. The minute they made the golden calf, they stopped. And on and on. To worship is to obey. To obey is to worship. Hannah J Paul

Answer 5

Studying means interpreting what you read to fit the available data.

In the case of the bible the available data are suppositions. You cannot build knowledge upon such an unstable foundation.

Answer 6

Depends on the type of Brain washing.

Answer 7

My long lost twin brother!!! You are right in your definition.