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: The Riches of His Kindness By Meaghan Spies But when the kindness and the love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit , whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life. This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly , that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.  Titus 3:4‭-‬8 NKJV Our God Is Rich The riches of His kindness . What profound words, rich with meaning because they are a true reflection of the nature of God . Our God is rich .  He is rich and generous in everything good. He is the personification and the source of abundant life . God epitomizes all you ha...