{"id":12487,"date":"2013-01-14T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:10:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:10:31","slug":"growing-in-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/14\/growing-in-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing in understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question: <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;How do we grow in knowledge and understanding of Scripture?&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nAnswer: <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Ask more questions&#8221;<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to grow in knowledge and understanding of\u00a0<em>anything<\/em>, asking questions is a great way to go about it! The sure and true way to stagnate in anything is to simply be satisfied with your current level of development and understanding and let yourself slowly\u00a0atrophy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/questions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, if you want to <em>grow<\/em> in your knowledge and understanding of Scripture, ask questions about it! If you read a passage which contains lots of things in it that you don&#8217;t understand, get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ignatius-Catholic-Study-Bible-Testament\/dp\/1586172506\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1280510134&amp;sr=8-1\">a good study Bible<\/a>,\u00a0find a Bible geek and keep asking questions until you&#8217;re satisfied with the answers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: &#8220;How do we grow in knowledge and understanding of Scripture?&#8221; Answer: &#8220;Ask more questions&#8221;. If you want to grow in knowledge and understanding of\u00a0anything, asking questions is a great way to go about it! The sure and true way to stagnate in anything is to simply be satisfied with your current level of development and understanding and let yourself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1149,2969,293,122,136,2195],"class_list":["post-12487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-catechesis","tag-featured","tag-growth","tag-questions","tag-scripture","tag-the-book"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12487"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56649,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions\/56649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}