Nope. This post is not a recipe for a yummy noodle casserole.
Sometimes I think it can be a good thing to read up or listen to things that will “bake your noodle,” or really challenge your convictions and beliefs. For me, these are usually discussions about the gray areas of Christianity, the nitty-gritty and the debates that have been going on since the books of the Bible were written. I’m not one to argue the more esoteric issues, and I don’t think I even remember what I decided on the issue of pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, or post-tribulation in the study of end times events. But show me a real truth-seeking blog discussion on the issues of Biblical femininity, I’m right in the middle. (Reading, not voicing.) I’ve read both poles, from the wearing-dresses-equals-holiness to the God-is-a-He/She-and-so-are-we, and while I can easily decide for myself that both sides are too extreme, it’s the middle-of-the-road discussion that is the closest to truth, and therefore the most difficult to discern. In a rare afternoon of quiet (all THREE of my children are actually napping AT ONCE!!), I’ve been reading so much of this that my brain is somewhat exhausted, much as my body would be if it had been physically running the circles that my mind has in the last hour.
But I think this is beneficial, because it challenges some of the opinions I’d held with too little reason. I think having my noodle baked is good when I can stop, take a break and really think over what I’ve read and then search the Bible for myself. I definitely prefer reading to speaking though, because I can stop as needed and re-read, also because I tend to melt in any kind of real-life confrontation.
As a side note, one of the reasons I want to homeschool my children is because I learned, through many years of my own public education, to not question the teacher (and by extension, the law, the government, etc). This means it has taken me too long (I’m 25 and still working on rooting out this attitude in myself) to learn to not unequivocally accept anything presented with a tone of authority. I am learning to challenge opinions presented as fact, to question how others come to their conclusions, and to search out for myself whether or not the teaching is Biblical. I want to teach my children from the beginning to search out the truth for themselves, to not accept something without question just because Mommy or Daddy or Pastor or whoever says it’s true. I want them to know that the Bible is the truth and the lens through which we judge the other “truths” presented to us.
Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Dove
Filed under: Learning
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