Here are the questions for this week's break out discussion:
- Read Psalm 37:3-7. What does it mean to you to "trust", "delight", "commit", and "be still"?
- In verse 4 the term "delight" is enlarged in the Amplified Bible as "desires and secret petitions of your heart". How does your thinking change in response to this?
- Earlier in our studies on this topic, we talked about Occam's Razor, which is attributed to the 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar Father William of Ockham. Ockham stated: "No plurality [fact or majority] should be assumed unless it can be proved (a) by reason, or (b) by experience, or (c) by some infallible authority [for example: sacred scripture]." In Ockham's view, an explanation which does not harmonize with reason, experience or the aforementioned sources cannot be considered valid. Give an example out of scripture where "reason" or "experience" were over-ridden by the Word of God.
- Where, in your life, have you relied upon the Word of God even though it may have gone against "reason" or "experience"?
- Read James 1:5-8 in a variety of translations. What is this portion of the Bible saying?
- Though this reference opens in the context of asking for wisdom, is the principle limited to that topic? Explain your thinking.
- It has been written: "Divine revelation is something which is not created by our own efforts, by our putting together thoughts conceived of using understandings based on what we've known and experienced until now. Divine revelation comes at God's initiative, not ours." Describe a life situation where you saw, heard or felt something in a particular moment that no one else seemed to experience in the same way you did.
"Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done"
- Romeo And Juliet Act 2, scene 4, 67–73
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