Don't worry, you'll get there :) As mentioned before, I use a second account, Phinehas, to practice my problem verses.
I also use the Practice feature here on learnscripture (click on the star at the top right where if you hover over it, it says "Progress". There you can practice any verse or any passage which is not actually due for review at the moment. You have to find the particular verse and then click on the bar at the far right, to the right of the stars which rate the verse's progress.
Of course, it's helpful also to have an idea of which verses are the weaker. To do that I maintain a separate list on a Google Sheet. Using that Sheet I assign myself the task of when I should practice a particular passage. If a passage is going to be due two months from now, then I practice it one month from now.
I agree, but your 700,000 is still a good thing! And we praise God for it. For giving us breath, for giving us salvation through Jesus Christ, and for countless other things too many to name.
Thanks MrsSpooner :) a couple of days ago I posted something to you under the name Phinehas. Sorry for any confusion. I frequently forget which name I'm reviewing under :)
Thanks MrsSpooner :) a couple of days ago I posted something to you under the name Phinehas. Sorry for any confusion. I frequently forget which name I'm reviewing under :)
Thank you for those explanations. Speaking for myself, we accept your apology. It's simply a feature of our "modern" internet and sometimes faceless communication. We don't have, in it, the normal benefit of knowing someone in person, perceiving their body language, knowing their background, understanding the tone of voice used in saying whatever it is they say. It's only that which has made an apology necessary or helpful in this case, I think.
My own belief: The Bible is divinely inspired, inerrant, and God's Perfect and Living Word. The fact that it is inerrant is a function of His Sovereignty. He has simply made sure that the Word we have received is His actual inerrant message for us. As I child, I accept His Word and receive it within the framework of an understanding of His Soverignty. I do not make any claim to "understanding" every verse in the Bible. But as His child I accept them and receive them and pray that each of them will do their necessary work on me, via the agency of His Holy Spirit.
That Living Word has come to us by means of imperfect human writers, scribes, copy scribes, and through imperfect translators. Through imperfect book publishers. Nevertheless I consider, due to His Sovereignty, that Word in my hands to be inerrant and holy. We used to say, "The Holy Bible", and there was good reason for that, I think.
I revere God's Word, just as I would treasure a letter from my wife, if for some reason she had to be away from me for a long, long period of time. I would treasure that letter. It would be a very important "thing" which I could hold in my hand, which is truly from her. But when I then saw my wife again face to face, that letter would take on far less importance. So it is with God's Word, although it is far far more than a romantic letter. For this time we are in now, we treasure His Word -- I treasure each one of the words of God.
But it is HE Whom we actually worship -- not His Word. We treasure and revere His Word, because it leads us, teaches us, to revere, to treasure, and to love, and to worship HIM, the one to whom is due all worship everywhere and for all time.