How do you read?

 Luke 10:25,26: And, behold, a lawyer stood up and said to test him, “Teacher, by doing what shall I inherit eternal life?”

  He said to him: What is written in the law? How do you read?

Acts 8:30 When Philip came, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, But do you understand what you read?

There are several reasons why I don't read the comments of what I post in Christian Facebook groups, one of them is that I once saw a video by Juan Manuel Vaz where he spent about 10 minutes explaining to people what he had meant and that He had not wanted to say in his previous video because in the comments of the previous video they destroyed him with insults because everyone understood what they wanted.

At that moment when I saw the video I said to myself: "I don't want comments from people who don't understand what I write or who understand it as their perverse hearts or even the devil guides them, to interfere with my writing in the future, as happened with "Juanma"

And I have realized that many people do not read to understand, but read to see what bad things they can find in reading only to go against it, another thing that I realized is that many people do not even finish reading what that one writes, but rather that they read one or two paragraphs and go and write a comment and one sometimes thinks that they are people who are retarded or something and the truth is not retardation, but that they have damaged hearts.

I remember one time, about 4 years ago, I posted something and a relative of my wife, a pastor, by the way, got upset with me and stopped talking to me. At that moment I looked for about 5 people and we sat down to analyze where in what I wrote the insult towards her was, after several hours we did not find any problem with the face writing and I uploaded it again because I had deleted it when I saw how upset the shepherdess had become. By the way, the pastor was upset about it for about 3 years.

Another thing that I think I should tell happened with my own family. In December I went to visit my family and made a publication, I showed it to my mother and she thought it was good, we even laughed at the publication, then some of her friends from church showed up and after a while she appears with a transfigured face demanding that I will delete the post.

There the problem was not that she misread or misunderstood, but that the problem was bad counselors who interpreted and understood my publication as her perverse hearts dictated and poisoned my mother. Recently, thinking about that situation, I remembered that in the Bible there were several people who ended up badly, even kings because they had bad counselors, so I started praying for my mother's circle. Well, the thing about the advisors will be the subject of another publication, let's continue.

Nowadays I don't read comments, but several times people have told me "Did you see what they commented on what you posted in one of the Christian groups? It's just that these people don't know how to read or don't understand anything they read." "or they were reading something else and made the wrong post when they made the comment."

And the truth is I think that, just as they teach us to prepare to hear and in fact there is a very good book in my online library called "Be Careful How You Listen" which is a compilation of sermons by John Piper.

We must also prepare to read, get all predisposition out of our heads and hearts and read everything well read before commenting. In fact, scholars recommend reading two or three times before answering anything. And if there is something that has not been understood from the reading, first ask before making a comment that is out of place or based on a single part of the text.

There are people who defend church logos regardless of biblical arguments. They defend their golden calves to the death. With these predispositions you will never be able to correctly understand anything you read.

Another thing that I realized is that there are people who are looking for someone to argue with to vent their personal frustrations and then another rooster crows, because it is no longer a problem of understanding or misreading or something else but rather people wanting to fight.

In the days when if I read the comments I was touched by a few people like that and in my immaturity I kindly asked them to go fight with their wives or their children or their grandchildren but not to come and make my life miserable.

I say "In my immaturity" because now I understand that the wise thing was not to waste time with those people, just leave them and they alone would find someone to fight with. By the way, there should be artificial intelligence that helps these types of people, or it could also be a business: "I fight with you in chat, on WhatsApp, or through audio messages for $10 an hour and $15 if you like being yelled at"

Back to the topic...

The point is that this not only affects how they read a Facebook post but also how they read the Bible. Because of reading the Bible incorrectly, many people have come up with super crazy teachings like the one I once told about a person who read in a verse "Look intently at the scriptures and you will be healed." And that person spent the whole night staring at the Bible to heal from a cancer he had, obviously he was not healed.

But these things are produced by reading incorrectly and thus many heresies that circulate in the churches and that are held as truths.

That is why it is advisable that we be careful when reading: Read the text completely, read understanding the context, read several times. Try to understand well what I am reading and if I am not clear ask if you do not understand something so as not to comment on something stupid and read without predispositions, which I think is always one of the most difficult things.

Don't believe it, although I'm not one to comment on posts, I've also screwed up in that. Several times I have had to delete a comment I have made because after I comment I say to myself “Wednesday! "I just understood what the man who wrote the post meant and it wasn't what I thought, I better delete the comment before I look like an idiot," it's something that happens to everyone, but you have to be careful and not be easy on time to respond.

Sometimes we are too loose-handed when it comes to writing comments.

I understand that sometimes there are comments that are good and even help one to improve but I have seen so many people who had good preaching, good teachings and good ways and not only good but biblical and they have ended up changing them because of the comments that people make to them. and sometimes we forget that we are not here to please but to be faithful to the truth of the word.

I still have a damaged computer monitor so to publish I almost had to do magic but I hope this helps someone, with someone who does it it will have been worth the effort.

Kisses 💋💋💋, I am the profebubba. And no, I don't read comments about what I write in Christian groups, I only read what people tell me on my personal page.