The idea that you need to hold a particular title or position or that you need a degree in something in order to understand it is FALSE; it simply is not true. It is a fallacy and it is gaslighting. You do not need to be an “authority,” an “expert,” a “theologian,” or a “scholar.” (What even determines whether you are an “authority,” an “expert,” a “theologian,” or a “scholar,” since different groups have their own and they are not in agreement? What determines who is right?) It does not matter if you have a degree in rocket science or shovelling manure; if you can read and understand, then you are qualified to speak on it, providing you have actually done your homework and researched the subject thoroughly before you attempt to speak on it. Otherwise you are a mere fool who talks for the sake of hearing your own voice.
Atheists are typical of this. They want to gaslight you on what is or is not science (something they clearly do not understand themselves), what does or does not constitute as medicine, as well as all their other bogus beliefs, but when it comes to religion they are each somehow self-appointed “experts” who have never researched it honestly and do not have the slightest clue what they are talking about. They read/heard someone say something they blindly agree with and then they ignorantly parrot it as if having any kind of force of validity. It sounded good to them, so they repeat it. Even though the argument can be easily refuted ten different ways, they stand by it and repeat it no matter how many times you dismantle and obliterate it. They keep beating their favourite dead horses expecting them to magically get up and win them the race.
The key here is having the ability to read and to understand, which most of these people do not have. First, they have no interest in reading the Bible, let alone seeking to understand it. “If [you] never look to see what it says, [you] can’t test to see if it’s true or even take the exam.” Second, what little they do read they fail to understand. Or they talk to some clown who refers to him/herself as a “Christian,” but does not know the first thing about Christianity or the Bible and has several wacky beliefs, and ass-u-me that is what biblical Christianity is. It is easy to refute your own self-erected straw men.
STOP listening to so-called “experts” and “authorities”! Find out for yourself. THINK for yourself! Professor Richard Feynman has some excellent words for you to heed:
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
“Since then I never pay attention to anything by ‘experts.’ I calculate everything myself.”
“Don’t pay attention to ‘authorities,’ think for yourself.”
“Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, ‘Is it reasonable?’”
“SCIENCE:
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re doing it wrong.
If you don’t correct those mistakes, you’re really doing it wrong.
If you can’t accept you’re mistaken, you’re not doing it at all.”“Modern education:
Creating people who are smart enough to accurately repeat what they are told and follow the orders.
And dumb enough to think this makes them smarter than everyone else.”“The real problem with the education system is that it tests memorization skills, not learning or intelligence.
The two major aspects that lack in modern education systems are education and system.”“The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.”“When your ‘education’ limits your imagination it’s called indoctrination. Those who cannot think for themselves are truly lost.
Education should be a rewarding experience which allows you to think, imagine, question, doubt and solve problems.”“Education isn’t about the ability to remember and repeat, in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
It is the ability to learn from experience, to think, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations.”“You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.”“The goal of teaching should not be to help the students learn how to memorize and spit out information under academic pressure.
The purpose of teaching is to inspire the desire for learning in them and make them able to think, understand, and question.”“Never confuse education with intelligence. You can have a Ph.D. and still be an idiot.”
“When you are dead, you don’t know you are dead. It’s pain only for others.
It’s the same thing when you are stupid.”“Be careful when you follow the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.”
By the way, according to the Noah Webster American Dictionary of the English Language, a "scholar" is nothing more than "One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; hence, any member of a college, academy or school; applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature." A "scholar" is not, as people tend to use the term today, an "expert" of some kind. So when ignorant people talk about "our scholars say/teach such and such," they are really saying, "our students say/teach such and such." Since when do we listen to students? Should you not be saying "our doctors say/teach such and such," since "doctor" used to mean "teacher"?
When some ignorant clowns says, "the scholars say this," make sure that you laugh directly in his/her face because he/she clearly does not know what they are talking about, and they are desperately reaching in an attempt to be right and make you wrong. This is no different than that child who always used to know someone in their family who just happened to do that particular thing that proves you are wrong and support his/her ridiculously asinine lies.