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To: unlearner

Don’t know the meaning behind your screen name, but maybe it has something to do with being a former pretrib, if that is indeed the case, and having to unlearn so much you had been taught. Certainly the case with me about the pretrib rapture.

Your posts on this thread are incisive, your points well taken. As an “unlearner” myself, I appreciate them.


15 posted on 12/01/2014 12:47:57 PM PST by sasportas
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To: sasportas

The screen name “unlearner” is a tribute to Charles H. Hinton who wrote about such a person in An Unfinished Communication. If you click my screen name link, you will see an excerpt of this piece of literature that I admire. My tagline is a continuation of the thought.

It is neither directly related to my study of the rapture or the Bible in general, but I did read this a long time ago when I was also reading a bit of C.S. Lewis, whose writing I also admire. At one point I actually confused the two authors because they both write with such well-chosen words to convey their ideas, especially when writing fictional scene descriptions.

From this concept I came to understand that it is important for anyone who aspires to master any area of expertise to “know what he doesn’t know.” That is, learning often requires that we realize that our understanding of a thing is inaccurate or incomplete so that we may begin learning the subject correctly.


16 posted on 12/01/2014 4:34:36 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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