tithing part 2

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>I wonder how many at Azusa street were Biblical Scholars, or carrying
>around
>degrees in those days......I wonder how long Paul went to Bible
>school.....
>
>Chris  Sterrett

Bro. Chris Sterrett.

There is nothing wrong with education.  Paul himself was an educated 
man, skilled in Jewish polemics, etc.  Luke the writer of Luke and the 
Acts also was educated.  Education is merely a tool, and its place in 
someone's life depends on his commitment to God.  As a tool it can be 
used for God, or it can be used to glorify the flesh.

The problem comes in when people glorify un-education, as though that is 
some great thing.  But it is on the lack of education that most 
so-called trinitarians base their misunderstanding of the relationship 
of the Son of God with His Father.  They take a merely human definition 
of the word "person" and use that as defining the Father and Son.  In 
reality the English word "person" comes from two Latin words, "per" = 
"through" and "sonare" = "to sound."  This word, "to sound through" or 
"persono" was the word used for the clay mask that actors in a drama or 
a comedy wore on the stage of that time.  And it looks like to me that 
the formulators of the doctrine of the trinity were trying to say, "one 
God in three masks," which is basically what we in the Apostolic 
movement believe.  One God Who manifested Himself in three different 
roles. 

Interestingly this definition of "person," that of a role played by an 
actor in a play, is the number 1 definition given in the great big 
Oxford Dictionary of the English language.  Only secondarily is the 
meaning given that we commonly use when we speak of one person as 
opposed to another person.  The problem is that uneducated people apply 
this second definition to "person," because they are ignorant that there 
is such a thing as a theological definition.  This is not a good thing.

There is no premium placed on ignorance in the Bible.