I'm coming around the final bend... 2

So getting a bigger picture of (or higher perspective on) where I am it's interesting (for me anyway) to think about the difference of what I was regarding my Work understanding (when I was in the midst of the serious learning and effort of it, and having real understanding of it when it was all still new in a real way) and what it means now that I have both the Work understanding and now the serious Bible and biblical doctrine understanding (before I'd had only the "bridge" of the Arnold Murray type doctrine, which is something, but it's not serious - adult - theology. It just isn't. It's something, perhaps even something very big, but it's not Augustine and Calvin and Edwards and the serious biblical doctrine that is actually what is in the Bible.

Because in the former time when I had understanding of the Work I also had pretty much the serious take on everything else (history, art, music, science, philosophy, imaginative literature, etc.); but I was just missing the serious level of the Bible and theology. Even though I'd read the Bible complete three times back then.

So now (in the coming years) I'll probably migrate back to where I was back then (in terms of the Work understanding and effort and all that), yet I'll also be someone who has real understanding of the serious level of theology and the Bible and religion in general.

Maybe I'll be translated to heaven without having to physically die. I'll just be robed with my glorified body as I rise up, like Enoch and Elijah perhaps...

But seriously, here's what will happen: I'll go back to "seeing what is most important" in everything. This is what I mainly did in my internet Work activity, which is how I'd gain insights into the Work language and put it all together (not to mention making actual efforts which fueled it all). "What's most important here?" When you can see what is most important in any given thing (and you just even have the constant motive to do that) it brings you to the core of understanding things and staying in line with what is real and practical and seeing things you'd not be able to see if you are always drawn off into unserious diversions and illusions and so on. But I'll also have serious biblical understanding and doctrinal understanding and all the understanding that comes with having a real vision of sacred history, one pole of eternity to the other.

See, not even a Jonathan Edwards or a John Calvin can look at me and say I'm not serious. I know what they knew.

One area of learning I could put some time in profitably is economy. Wealth of Nations is my pet book. I see big things in that subject matter. I have to say I don't yet have understanding of all that. If I was taken by God out of my time and set into a different time and had the job of developing the economy of a nation I'd not at this time have the understanding of that. I have 'some' understanding of it. But it's an interesting subject for its correlations to the laws of God's liberty and to Real Will. How wealth is created and circulated and so on. Doing things that effect things in a higher, intangible way. Going seemingly backwards to go forwards. To him to has more will be given, to him who has not more will be taken from him... That kind of thing. I've read Wealth of Nations once, and I have a few other sources to get at the heart of economy in the way I am talking about. Maybe that is my next area of study. War can always be brushed up on as well...