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Scrolling Continued from p. 365

minds us that reading Scripture carefully read with care is to encounter the fullness
involves to both what is included and what of divine truth.
is excluded. Scrolling habits, by contrast,
encourage carelessness and skimming, Conclusion
dulling our ability to notice detail and Navigating the digital world is not
context. This has serious consequences. straightforward. Used wisely, technology
If we read Scripture superficially, we risk can benefit the believer. But it requires vigi-
missing the nuances that safeguard sound lance to prevent habits of scrolling from
doctrine. Many confusions in eschatology eroding the discipline of reading, from
and other areas of theology arise because feeding our appetite for endless novelty,
readers rely on quick online summaries or from dulling our attention to detail. In
or endless streams of commentary rather Luke 4, the Lord Jesus demonstrates a bet-
than patient study of the text itself. Scroll- ter way: He read with reverence, fed the
ing and skimming cannot substitute for people with the Word, and handled the
meditation and reflection. The Spirit leads text with precision. These lessons apply
believers into all truth through careful en- directly to our digital lives. We are called
gagement with God’s Word, not through not to scroll endlessly but to read care-
hurried consumption. Just as Christ’s read- fully, not to crave new content but to feed
ing in Nazareth displayed reverence and on satisfying, scriptural truth, and not to
precision, so must ours. To read without skim lightly but to weigh up every word
care is to risk spiritual shallowness; to with care.

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Warnings Continued from p. 367

We maintain that not one of the exhorta- “holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly
tions and warnings can be rightly under- calling” (Heb 3:1).
stood nor obeyed by the unsaved. And it “Now the God of peace, that brought
is a grievous mistake to press such tenets again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
upon unbelievers (as Godless religion so great shepherd of the sheep, through the
often does), for no amount of steadfast- blood of the everlasting covenant, make
ness, obedience and good works in the you perfect in every good work to do
unregenerate can yield the peaceable fruit his will, working in you that which is
of righteousness nor attain inheritance and well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus
reward. The writer’s objective, therefore, is Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.
not concerned with the unsaved, but with Amen” (Heb 13:20-21).

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