In the so-called developed countries, we are brought up and educated in a fully rational view of the world created by Enlightenment science. We consider the image of the world it passes on to us to be a reality, because it is generally accepted and widespread around. However, this worldview has a major impact on our ability to perceive things beyond rationality. It is no coincidence that the current explosion of spirituality and esotericism appears at people who look critically, often anxiously, at the world and its future. (Whoever feels at home in this world does not venture into new spaces, does not look for other ways. But today´s people do, no matter how they think they are rational; let´s just have a look at the counters of today's bookstores and realize what percentage of the literature published today relates to alternative spiritual paths and fears of the future).

However, the concept of the existence of the only knowable, intellectual truth, as born of the Enlightenment, prepared a serious problem for believers in the interpretation of the Bible. Since its truth was questioned, it was necessary to respond. Some do this by denying science as wrong and believing that in the end it will turn out that the Bible was in fact right. Others began to understand the Bible primarily as a message of transcendent things that do not in fact conflict with science; according to them, the Bible and science "play on different fields." Others, though believers, have de facto set aside the Bible as a collection of myths, focusing on man, preaching the psychology of personal development, and striving for social progress.

But even for those who intend to continue to believe the Bible, the Enlightenment's way of thinking has created a problem with its interpretation: they believe that if something is "true", it must remain unchangebly valid, wenn applied, it must bring the same results. This is the case with a scientific view of reality (except for the theory of relativity and chaos, which later gave a serious blow to Enlightenment view of "scientific", but it still does not have such a far-reaching effect on the transformation of the whole culture of knowledge as the previous stages of development).

However, the Bible contains both universally valid truths, such as the salvation through faith, and very personal truths, the validity of which depends on the person. Why does one man achieve many promises in life while another one just scrapes along spiritually? If, in theory, both believe in the same thing, why does the same truth produce different results for them? If they summed up their personal beliefs on paper, they would be almost the same! And yet there is a big difference in what fruit this truth will bear in their lives - because they grasp the same truth in different ways.

So far we have left Abram after the liberation of Lot. Since he set out to follow his new God, he has not yet covered half of his way. However, he had already found out that he had received many things from God, but still not the one he cared about the most — the promised offspring. He may also have tried to swear, swear, and swear in various ways that now and immediately the offspring that God had promised would be born, because when God told him, it must be true. But nothing happened; for this truth to apply, it was not enough to understand it rationally and determine one's own "here and now." The word had to become flesh, hope reality, mere understanding the reality that God would materialize. For this, Abram had to grow up, and as we shall see, other valleys and promised heights will await him on this path.

In order to achieve them, Abram was to, or rather, had to grow.