On Better Bible Study Podcast, today, we have a QnA episode. In these episodes ,Rudy discusses questions or subjects related to Bible study with church of Christ members.

Today’s question is  about keeping to the Bible – not adding to or taking away from. Why in the Lord’s church today, do many people find this such a hard walk to walk (especially preachers)? Also, why do you think that is a problem?

This is a conversation continued from our last QnA episode which was on the same subject.
Psyche, Kardia, Lebab
Often times we have problems of perspective and it seems to me that my first understanding of the question was why do we have a problem and the suggestion that I have received is that why do people choose to ignore what the Bible says. I was looking at it from the perspective of people who chose to ignore what the Bible says. We talked about things like self-interest and ignorance sometimes we are wilfully ignorant.   All of those can be cured if we simply have an obedient heart. Hearts that are distant from God are always going to be source of the problems. I said a distant psyche, and easily could have said the distant kardia. Psyche is a Greek word. Like so many words in the ancient and dead lineages we read about, we manufacture English words that come from that route.   Kardia is another one which is easier to explain when we are talking about those definitions. There are probably a score of other attributes or influences which might lead well intentioned Christians and non-Christians to depart from the Bible. It is the big problem both in and out of Christ.  Psyches, kardia, or hearts are far from God. All the words in our dictionary that begin with the word psycho are derived from the Greek word psyche. English speakers have limited psyche to the mind, and psycho to psychology, psychotropic, psychoanalysis and so on, to mental applications.  In the first word psyche could denote rational minds as well as emotional motivations of our hearts the way we use it today poetically -  “My heart breaks†or “My heart yearns for you†or “My heart goes out to youâ€.  For the Greeks psyche denoted the ·         inner man,·         the seat, ·         the base, and  ·         the core of his will  in the entire sum of his decision making.·         Strong’s calls it the inner man.  The whole assessment provides several Hebrew words for mind and denotes some mental faculty of a kind or another.  In the Old Testament, what we call mindset in our character, often uses the words which are translated into the English heart. The two words most often used for that are the word leb or lebab.  Lebab in the Hebrew is seen in 1 Kings 11:3-4.  He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart (leb) away. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart (lebab) away after other gods; and his heart (lebab) was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart (lebab) of David his father had been. (1 Kings 11:3–4 NASB95)  In Strongs:·          leb would be 3820 and·         lebab would be 3824 in the Hebrew section. The Hebrew word leb, as lebab, translates into, depending on specific context to·         inner man,·         will,·         mind,·         heart,·         intention, ·         purpose.  When talking about leb, lebab and psyche what we’re talking about is the seat and core of all relational actions.  The New Testament, written almost entirely koine Greek, mostly uses the informal word kardia that we translate into the English word heart. None of these cases the Bible’s emphasis is on the cardiac muscle or when talking about the mind on the ideation that is created by the organic computer in our cranium. It is never the organic things that we tend to think of the mind. The emphasis is almost always in the inner com