Please note Dave that the verse does not
say biblical knowledge puffs up.
Not exact matches
And, faithful to the same
Biblical understanding of the
knowledge of God, we read in I John, «no one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us» (4:12), and «If any one
says, «I love God,» and hates his brother, he is a liar» (4:20).
i honestly don't mean to be offensive but this is showing a little of your lack of
biblical knowledge... again, progressive revelation... what did jesus
say about «killing»....
We may go further and
say that in the light of contemporary
biblical study and of the
knowledge of the world in which we live, the traditional, restricted view of resurrection is seriously defective.
Look what He (Jesus)
said about the Jewish hierarchy and their pursuit of
biblical knowledge at the expensive of loving their people and not even recognizing Him who stood in front of them, who demonstrated He was the....
Just imagine if Jesus had
said that
biblical knowledge wasn't that important, that it was more important to just «love» and not be concerned if that
knowledge was based in truth.
And I assure you that my
knowledge of
biblical controversies is miniscule, but the one were discussing I have spent some time looking into, it's very intriguing to me that these things exist alongside each other... as I
said earlier, John's gospel is a good example of historical detail (with respect to the synoptics) seemingly playing second fiddle to a developing narrative (the Johanine tradition).