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How do we read the Scripture? I read, study, and meditate on the words and know that many others do the same to know Him. The collective efforts by all people on the earth to spend time on the words throughout history would be enormous if it could be even roughly estimated. So many people perceive it as the words from God and make devotional, religious, or professional efforts to understand the Scripture. The search for the meaning would have been exhausted and completed a long time ago. However, we know that it is not the case. We have many new books and articles being published every year, and numerous verses and passages are still puzzling, yielding many contrasting or even opposing interpretations. The existence of many denominations also corroborates this conclusion. To me, one clear piece of evidence is that I cannot remove the invading impression that many puzzle pieces in the Scripture have been made to fit where they do not fit. As the result, we have so many pieces that are yet to find their places and cannot see the whole picture. We read only what we think it is about, and so there is not much about the revealed truth. Can we ever read the mind and heart of God through the Scripture, let alone understand the precise meaning of every detail in the entire book? If the amount of effort we invest for that purpose holds the key (as in a study of a school subject), there is not much hope. Wasn’t it that God gave us the Scripture so we could understand Him? I suspect that there are some fundamental issues in our disposition as humans, which have led us in the direction off from the right path a little, yet with certainty. Even a slight degree of deviation from the right direction can take us to a place far away from where we should be able to see things in the Scripture with clarity. Does the Scripture give us any clues about what might have happened and how we can get over the hindrances to revelation? The following blogs in the next few years will be filled with what I have discovered to answer my own questions.