In order to learn about God, you cannot just rely of faith, trust, or belief in the Almighty. To learn about something, you need to use the skills learned in life and school (hopefully). That is asking questions, through challenging others but not for sake of argument alone and giving yourself time to reexamine your personal belief structure. This is learning and growing in God's presence.

Surprisingly, some folks never open a Bible and rely on the pastor or bible study teacher. They also rely on earlier teachings that are no longer valid due to revelations and discoveries. This is learning by faith which puts the person at risk of never growing.

Not asking questions after learning a section of either Scripture or the Greek writings is also non-conducive to growth. Taking someone else's word for something without research or picking the mind through questions leaves a person behind.

When you ask questions and seek validated answers to question what you are told to believe, you may learn that everything you thought was right is not. We are curious by nature but if we allow our curiosity to become stale, we will just go around believing the same information whether true or false and never learn or grow in a relationship with God.

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, a Canadian Rabbi and teacher of Wisdom, says this about the subject:
"You don't learn by having faith. You learn by questioning, by challenging, by re-examining everything you've ever believed.
And yet, all this is a matter of faith - the faith that there is a truth to be found.

It is another paradox: To truly question, you must truly have faith."
So, in order to learn about God, you have to have faith and trust in God. To grow in faith, you need to be curious and ask questions when something seems out of place, or it just does not make sense anymore. This is happening more and more around the world causing people to leave Christianity especially when they actually study what the Hebrew Scriptures teach about God, His Nature, His Character, His Plans for all mankind.

It starts with studying what God designed man for. He took what was there and challenged us to be like Him. He gave us the mission of co-creator. He hates the bloodlust, wars, and the inclination to do things against Him (evil inclination). He never designed a human to die for others (Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Habakkuk) as we are responsible for our own sins in this life and the next. Know this, the Greek Testaments record Jesus as understanding salvation is by the individual heart, not the blood that returns us to God. It was the man, Paul, that changed that.
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Rob, Servant of God

What is more important: the person teaching the lessons, or the lessons being taught? This question should also be pondered: National revelation versus personal revelation, which is more believable?
When people pay more attention to the person teaching, the lessons are not heard. When the message is lost, the only thing left is the person. The teacher becomes a figurehead, and the source depended upon which leads to idolatry.

When the lesson is heard and heeded, the person teaching becomes a mouth instead of a figurehead. The words of the teacher are the main point of instruction.

What happened to Christianity is that the teachings took second if not last place to the person of Jesus and the actions of his life. He became the personification of the lessons which led to worship of the person, his life, and death. This is known when a person says that all they need is Jesus or his is the only name. The actual lessons became lost this is idolatry because the person became more important than the lessons.

We hear people say they want to be like or live like Jesus. This is a great thought if you know the lessons that were taught. When reading the Greek Testaments, you may find that he was not always living what he taught. He taught being loyal to God through the teachings of the Word and living life IAW the Written and Oral Law. But he also lived and taught things that are against Torah Law. This is why reading the whole Bible is important.

Have preachers that have become more important than what they are supposed to teach. Numbers become more important than names. This is dangerous due to arrogance, lust for power, and greed seeping in. There are dangers involved that affect families.

If the whole family is in the church and one member seems to be pushed aside, that should be a warning signal and time to start looking for a different church. Nobody is unimportant and everybody has a skill that can be put to use as it is meant to be. If family members start to be overused that is also a warning sign.

The person is not important, the lesson is. If you are in a house of worship where the name or actions by said individual become more important than the lesson being taught, I ask you to run, run quickly. If God the Father takes second fiddle or someone is equated with Him, run. Paul concentrated on the person more than the teachings, if the concentration is Paul's teachings about Jesus but not the lessons Jesus taught, run. You have to ask yourself, what is more important, the man or living the lessons taught.

Paul spent a lot of time trying to convince people that his personal revelation of Jesus is the true Jesus. To do this, he exaggerated the truth, lied about his teacher, was two faced, very argumentative, threw in common pagan practices, made them point to Jesus, and was thrown out of Jerusalem. The Israelite Nation had a national revelation where all the people heard the voice of God, saw the stones on which the Ten Commandments were written, communed with Him. I would believe a National Revelation with physical proof over a Personal Revelation where there is a lot of guesswork and man had to decide/create beliefs and take things solely on faith.
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Rob, Servant of God

If we followed the example of Paul's Jesus, we would not really know what was taught. Jesus taught that sacrifice was unnecessary, and repentance was from the individual heart. The real Jesus was a Pharisaic Jew who knew the Torah and followed it. He reminded his followers come to and remain being Torah observant. Paul, a Hellenistic Jew, made Jesus into a sacrifice (against God's Word). God warns us not to elevate a man, but Paul and the Greek scholars made Jesus into a god-man. The Word is more important than the person, not the opposite. People (even righteous people) make mistakes, which is what man does. The Word (Hebrew Scriptures) is eternal and true.

Do Not Follow False Gods (idols)
If the word spoken is not of God (from the Word we find in Scripture) or foreign to the way of the people, it is a false teaching and should not be followed. We are bound by our flesh and the lives we lead to follow the Word of God alone because He is our creator. A foreign god is one that goes against or is made to be in place of worship of the One True God. No one is allowed to mediate between an individual and God. No one can die on behalf of another's sin.

The Categories of Law for the Gentile
The non-Jew (Gentiles) needs to know that we are children of the One True God who created mankind and gave us 7 moral/ethical categories of Laws or Guidelines to follow. These are very similar to the Ten Commandments but are more focused on living with the good inclination of man and defeating the evil inclination just as God told Cain he was capable of (Genesis 4:7). God gave us these with Him being the originator, not the immediate focus even though He is the main focus of trusting His Word is true.
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Nowhere in any of His laws to Jew or non-Jew does it say that blood is the only absolute needed thing for atonement from sin. Nowhere does it say that He will send a messenger to become flesh and be sacrificed for our sins. In fact, the whole Bible (Old Testament) warns against that.
Repentance comes from the condition of the heart and obedience to God's Laws (what Jesus actually taught). Because a sacrifice by a person with the evil inclination in power over the heart (a.k.a. a non-repentant heart) will not be accepted. This is the truth Jesus taught of God's Word. This is what is seen when the Word is read for what it is and not interpreted with Jesus glasses on.