Discovery

Ecclesiastes 1:9 English Standard Version (ESV) What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Acts 17:21 English Standard Version (ESV) Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

The New World existed long before explorers sailed across the Atlantic and discovered it. It was new to them only by discovery.

Yesterday it was stated that the bible is complete and there is nothing new to be found in what God has to say to us. His Word is complete. That does not mean you have discovered all that He has to say to you. While the men of the Areopagus were epicurean and stoic philosophers they were willing to discover new things.

The new things we discover must be validated by the Word of God if they are spiritual in nature. Anything related to how God speaks to man and His plans for us is discoverable in our bibles. If what we believe is not validated by God’s Word we must seek wise counsel in order to come to a better understanding of the truth.

2 Corinthians 10:5 English Standard Version (ESV) We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Lofty opinions which cannot be validated by the Word are vain imaginations and there is no truth in them.

Psalm 119:104 English Standard Version (ESV) Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Ephesians 4:18 English Standard Version (ESV) They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Pride causes a hardening of the heart. We must not think ourselves better than others just because they have not discovered all the truth.

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