Blog:Salvation is for the "childlike"? Matthew 11:25: Difference between revisions

Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/13?16 Mt 13:16-17]) </blockquote>In the next verses, in the "Parable of the Sower," he illustrates what we are when we hide what we see and hear behind our biases: <blockquote>The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the kingdom without understanding it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown in his heart. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/13:18 Mt 18-19]) </blockquote>as opposed to -- and he uses the word here, when we do "understand": <blockquote>But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.” ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/13:23 Mt 13:23]) </blockquote>I'm starting to get it: full, intellectual understanding requires an open mind, you know, like a child's. We even have an expression for it, one I hear all the time from students who come to understand a concept or lesson: "I get it now!". To "get" it means both to ''receive'' and to ''accept'' it.