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What is most challenging about engaging in Scripture?
Some persons have old understandings about what scripture says and are reluctant to look at it in a new way. For example, many persons were taught in confirmation that Noah's sons were the first of the earth's different races.
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From Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.
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The treatment of the book of Genesis in particular is locked into an 18th/19th century world view for many people. I wonder if it is because the clergy have not been open about what they've learned about the content of scripture and how it got that way.
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