Still doesn't mean there is no sequence of events, a before and an after, time.
I think that concept is just something that someone imagined and it caught on, but no one can explain why.
Very simple - his is a result of the sorting out of a thing by men, from within their own reasoning.
A reasoning that too soon heads for it's own various conclusions, in contrast to studying a thing out a bit longer as to what other pieces of it's seeming puzzle the Scripture might contain further information on.
The Spirit teaches through "that which is written."
2 Corinthians 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
Plain and simple.
Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Which is what this means...
Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Notice...
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
The Spirit teaches through His Word...
Acts 17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
This is why Mid-Acts does not make sense to them.
Their questions during their attempt to sort a thing out, and therefore their results; differ from the types of questions the MADist gradually learns to come to ask, simply through more, and more time in Scripture, attempting to see just a bit more, followed by just a bit more, and a bit more, what is what, a bit clearer.
And the more diligent the MADist seeks to be at that, the finer his distinctions come to be, over those less diligent, 2 Tim. 2:15.
One ends up with a very different approach than those not MAD.
And through that; one's answers are often very different from those the reasoning of men into a thing, often results in.
Thus, I do not view such in unbelief.
Rather, confused.
Like the individual who, believing the Scripture; actually cuts out his offending eye.
Such are simply...confused in the understanding they have come to believe...is sound.
The Lord Himself had felt this way...
Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
Thus, Romans 5:8.
And thank God for it...
