[Westbrook]

Just one more thing ...

Early in my Christian life, I came to a preacher with a passage of Scripture I could not understand.

The preacher looked at the passage, then asked me, “Are you going to live this passage today?”

I was quite taken aback and asked him, “If I don’t understand it, then how am I going to live it?”

He replied, “Then, live the Scriptures that you can understand. Perhaps if you get those right, the Lord will bless you with the understanding you will need for the less obvious ones.”

Best advice I ever got.

[Tzfat]

He replied, “Then, live the Scriptures that you can understand. Perhaps if you get those right, the Lord will bless you with the understanding you will need for the less obvious ones.”

Good advice. Simple faith, expressed by simple obedience, shames all the systematic theologies that exist.

Systematic theologies (such as Supercessionism) exist to silence the questions from the "uneducated." They cannot stand the light of Scripture, because anytime you have to explain away the plain meaning to the hearers of the day, you are entering the realm of the bad parent. The Almighty is not a bad parent. He speaks clearly. Those who don't like what He says come up with elaborate scemes to explain it away.