[TruthTalk] On playing chess & On reading/interpreting the Scriptures for living (not for 'A' living)

[Lance Muir]

Certainly someone will point the importance of God's Spirit in the latter engagement.Thereafter, how many parallels might one draw? Vladimir Kramnik, current world chess chamption, has done interviews recently outlining his journey to the pinnacle of the chess world. Were we to give Bill Taylor some basic instruction in chess in preparation to play Kramnik in two months, would you 'bet the farm' (Bill has one) on Bill? Were we to give Vladmir a Bible and two months of instruction on reading/interpreting it then, pick two or three extended passages for discussion (say the Sermon on the Mount, Philippians 2 & Galatians 5), whose observations would more likely approximate 'writerly intent'? (Supplement this by suggesting that Kramnik was actually converted just before being given the Bible). Would the outcome likely differ?   Not tryin' ta be clever TTers!