A new understanding

The past few days, being in Life of Christ and Biblical Interpretation, I have learned how little I know about scripture, biblical history, and correctly interpreting the Bible. I have come to realize that the statement "the more you understand the Old Testament the better you will understand the New Testament" is true. I really need a better understanding of the Old Testament, especially the books after the Pentateuch. Also if you asked me what the apocrypha was before coming to school here I would have no clue what it was. And after you told me I would have thought of it as "bad" and refuse to even look at it. But, I have learned that even though it is not inspired by God, it is still useful in learning the culture and history of the inter-testamental period. As for interpreting the Bible, I am guilty of making allegorical meanings to the text and taking things out of context, and not knowing the historical background of scripture. I now know that, " scripture can never mean what it never meant." I have learned so much in the past few days, and still have so much more to learn. And the final thing I learned is that you can't spend too much time writing in the blog because you will be timed out and loose all you have written and have to rewrite it.