BYTES with Meaghan

BYTES : Word Study: Dianoia. How's Your Understanding? And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. I John 5:20  Dianoia   Dianoia is Greek for understanding . Dianoia is a compound of two words, Dia + nous denoting the mind as a faculty of understanding, thinking, feeling and desiring.  Plato defined Dianoia as knowledge of the kind that falls short of the highest kind, that is noesis. He believed that nous was a higher mental faculty associated with the apprehension of unchanging, eternal truths. Whereas Dianoia was a lower mental faculty associated with fallible belief and the sensory world.  Aristotle divided Dianoia further into techné , or theoretical knowledge, and phronesis , or knowhow: practical and moral wisdom. Thus Dianoia is the human cognitive capacity for, process of, or result of discurs...

BYTES~   Word Study:  God's Highlights Nun|  Your Word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. Psalms 119:105 Highlights God's Word is a lamp to our feet.   That  is, God's Word glistens on, or lights up, the road ahead of us. We do not need to stumble around in the darkness of confusion or in that tunnel of voices which so easily distract us.  God's Word is also a light unto our path . It's as if God highlights the best path for us to take especially when we come to a bend in the road.   Just as you and I use highlights to call attention to high points, to things of major significance to us, or to illuminate text that holds special interest for us, so God uses His  highlights  to emphasize things of importance as we read His Word or as we go about our daily lives.  God's Highlights , well, stand out like Highlights . You could be reading a passage in the Bible when a word or phrase suddenly stands out to you,  seem...