“Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.”
Romans 10:1-3 NLT
http://bible.com/116/rom.10.1-3.nlt
The Jews had zeal but they were wrong.
It is easy to mistake zeal, energy, or charisma for right. It is easy for humans to get pretty excited about untruths. Lord knows that I have done it.
We must take our ideas and those of others and cross reference them to a standard. And what better standard is there than the Bible?
That was easy, right? No. There is one other crucial aspect. Science teaches us to do our very best to disprove our hypothesis from our research. If we try our best and can't do it, then the hypothesis can be accepted.
Most of us make a mistake with the Bible. We get an idea in our melon and look for some Bible verses to support the idea. When we find something we like, we stop. We must try to find verses to disprove our idea. If we can't then we can accept the truth. Otherwise we risk the Jewish problem of having zeal and being wrong.
Dear Jesus. Help me be zealous and right. It is easy to get excited about wrong things and I have done it. Help me read your Bible correctly. Love you. Tom
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