“See, I have filled [Bezaleel] with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold and in silver, and in brass, And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.”  (Exodus 31)

“And this is the fashion which thou shalt make [the ark]…”  (Genesis 6)

 

By the two (2) Scripture passages above, God is shown to be very exacting. Bezallel was chosen by God to be the artificer of the Ark of the Covenant (not as in Noah’s ark, but a kind of chest or box container).  The Ark represents God and is a type of Christ. The Ark would also act as the Mercy Seat.  The Ark is the place where God, in the form of Fire dwelt among the people. The Ark was to serve a great purpose and to represent and typify Christ Jesus, therefore it must be produced correctly, properly, and with zero (0) mistakes. For this to be possible God “downloaded” the blue print and the ability into Bezaleel….think Matrix movie.  The Tabernacle, where the Ark would reside also had exacting, intricate, and very specific measurements and God was the designer.

We see from the second (2nd) text from above, that God, in giving Noah the instructions for the building of the Ark (ship; different from the Ark reference in the last paragraph), was very specific as He would be with the Tabernacle and Ark much later. The Holy Spirit, when inspiring the author of Hebrews, was very specific as he describes and explains the meaning of the Cross.  If one reads Isaiah 53 and many of the prophetic Psalms one would again see God’s preciseness.

If we, as God’s people, and as God’s people are predestined to become Christ-like, we too should be precise and exact in our dealings with others. Precision and the proper words in our communications must be clear and supportable if we are to be taken seriously and considered credible. Whenever I see an article about or by one of the members of the Graham family as in Billy, I know I can expect the comments to mean spirited, hateful, wildly exagerrated, biased, and filled with unsupportable and unproveable hyperbole. I exercise my tact on these comment threads as we point out the illogical fallacies of the logic and fair-mindedness abusers. I also try to teach myself how to spot these fallacies and to disarticulate the arguements of others.  I also learn how not to argue, in the sense of making a point.

I have observed that the use of the suffix, est as in bigg-est and words like: ever, everyone, everybody, always, all, and people without the qualifiers, some, a few, certain, etc. The use of the words in the last sentence is a fallacy that appeals to the majority and the majority must be right…..right? The use of ninety-nine point nine percent (99.9%) is also dis-crediting as the common commenter has not actually measured anything. This makes other comments by the user sketchy.

Let us be persons of precision and exactness in our dealings with others and let us be aware of others using misleading words or illogical fallacies.  God-willing, in the future, we should write an article on the illogical fallacy.  To recognize the illogical fallacy is a blessing and a curse.  A blessing because you will spot deception and exagerration and a curse because you will spot deception and exagerration……”Always” and “Everywhere” and with “Everybody.”

Godspeed.