What is the learning process like for most believers according to Les?
For most believers, the learning process is slow. It takes time and constant repetition, repetition, repetition. After that, they move on and get a little deeper, then repeat some more. The Old Testament and Gospels were written for our learning, not salvation or doctrine.
Les teaches that the learning process for most believers is slow, not fast. He compares it to expecting a child to jump into university calculus without first learning arithmetic. In the same way, people are often taken into the further revelations of Scripture without any concept of what went before, and then others wonder why they have no root and why their faith does not hold. Paul says the Old Testament things, and the Gospels, were written for our learning, not for salvation or doctrine. The process takes time, repetition, repetition, repetition, then moving on a little deeper and repeating some more.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.