The word oida is the English transliteration for the perfect tense of the Greek verb “to know” (εἴδω). The prefect tense carries with it the joint ideas of completed action and continuing effect. Thus oida is a form of knowing which has enduring impact. It is a knowing which has come by insight and once acquired deeply embeds itself into the way we think, feel and act. Once gained, such ingrained insight shapes all future perspective and actions. Similar to the English word “realized”, oida speaks of both the moment of insight and a sense of fulfilment.
It is the desire of this website that its contents will provide oida moments for those who partake of its contents. In a day when Evangelical preaching has thinned the essentials of theology down to how to get saved and contemporary worship has reduced Christology to a personalized perception of emotional wellbeing, it is hoped that this site will cause its readers to ponder anew the joys, truths and mysteries of a Christian Biblical worldview and faith; and in pondering find themselves changed.May Christ’s Holy Spirit so allow . . .
The word oida is the English transliteration for the perfect tense of the Greek verb “to know” (εἴδω). The prefect tense carries with it the joint ideas of completed action and continuing effect. Thus oida is a form of knowing which has enduring impact. It is a knowing which has come by insight and once acquired deeply embeds itself into the way we think, feel and act. Once gained, such ingrained insight shapes all future perspective and actions. Similar to the English word “realized”, oida speaks of both the moment of insight and a sense of fulfilment.
It is the desire of this website that its contents will provide oida moments for those who partake of its contents. In a day when Evangelical preaching has thinned the essentials of theology down to how to get saved and contemporary worship has reduced Christology to a personalized perception of emotional wellbeing, it is hoped that this site will cause its readers to ponder anew the joys, truths and mysteries of a Christian Biblical worldview and faith; and in pondering find themselves changed. May Christ’s Holy Spirit so allow . . .
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