> Speaking to an elder they are fixed in the view they know more than the child which in a sense is true but wrong. Their views are closed off and have nothing to offer but their position on a subject. This includes the bible
I have a little book entitled The Most Unreliable Bible Dictionary Ever. It defines Hermogenes as 'Those individuals who have God so comfortably contained within a box that they are constantly bewildered by all the others who don't understand him.'