Secret Power of Words                                 Words of Knowledge:
                                                                           Barriers to Understanding

trying others who do have true understanding. When it comes to that Scripture, you have a great deal of difficulty seeing what it says.

MAN: I agree with it, the Scripture: "Whoever is born of God does not commit sin." The word is also rendered practice.

ROY: I am telling you that neither do I practice it.

MAN: Neither do I. (Here, by his own testimony, he contradicts himself and calls himself perverse.)

    The above conversation is a perfect example of an exercise in futility, in that you cannot convey understanding to someone who does not want to understand. While I was trying to help this man understand, to awaken him through words, he was trying to confuse me with words.
     Each one of us took a position of righteousness and of understanding, which we tried to project to each other. Forgive me if I seem prejudiced, but does it not seem as though I were trying to say something beyond words? I am saying that you have to lift the veil of words and discover and embrace the Reality behind them, and words can lead you to either a true or a false spirit. The man was saying that believing in the Bible verbatim represents the Reality. Those two viewpoints are as extreme as heaven and hell. He was trying to blind you by binding you to words, and then he can impart to them any meaning he wishes.
     The original sin was a fall to the knowledge of good and of evil. Man is created to live by faith and not from memory,

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