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| bio | website | brucealderman.info |
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| location | Kansas | |
| age | 44 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | May 20 at 4:25 | |
| stats | profile views | 18 |
I've been a Christian since 1985, and a member of East Heights United Methodist Church in Wichita since 1994. My theology is Wesleyan/Arminian, but I don't think all Christians must share this view.
I believe that the Bible is inspired but not inerrant, that it was written to teach us about God and not the physical universe.
I believe faith is not an intellectual pursuit but a transformation of our entire being.
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @Jack: And if you're trying to say that God chose the very words for the NT authors to write, you're going to have to explain a lot more than who was high priest. Mark didn't know Greek very well, and often used the wrong verb tenses; sometimes he even changed tenses in the middle of a sentence. This is glossed over in most modern translations, but you can see it in Young's literal translation. This is a problem if God literally brought "all things" to their remembrance, but not if the writers were responsible for their own words. |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @Jack: But if Jesus was speaking just to those in the room with him, it wouldn't include the writers of most of the books of the New Testament, including Mark. So John 14 wouldn't apply to Mark picking the wrong priest's name from memory. |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @Jon: Regarding "no reason to add the mistake"; that's why it is called a mistake. If we look at the thousands of minor errors in later manuscripts, there is no reason for someone to have added them, yet they are there. I understand Dr. Ehrman's logic, I just don't think it matches the reality of life before the printing press. |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? Then does that mean every time a Christian forgets something, we are sinning? |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @Jack: I can't see how Bob's comment even addresses my answer. |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @Jon: If it went back to Jesus, I don't see why nobody would have corrected it over the 30-40 years before it was written down. We can see, based on how Matthew and Luke treat the source we know about (Mark), that they are not reluctant to make changes even to the very words spoken by Jesus. Is there a reason to believe Mark was any different? |
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Oct 31 |
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Does Joh 14:26 speak to assumptions about hermeneutics? Sure, the gospel writers took their task seriously. However, they did not write the gospels to communicate the history of Jesus, but rather the meaning of Jesus. |
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Oct 31 |
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Does Joh 14:26 speak to assumptions about hermeneutics? I don't think there is any evidence that the gospel writers would always have left out details whenever there was any doubt. Compare, for example, the differences among the gospels in 1) the words exchanged between Jesus and John at Jesus' baptism, 2) the names of the twelve apostles, 3) the words exchanged between Jesus and Pilate at Jesus' trial, 4) the identities of the people who questioned Peter before the cock crowed, 5) the women who accompanied Mary to the tomb. There is considerable disagreement on the details, yet they all agree on the big picture, which is what really counts. |
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Oct 31 |
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Does Joh 14:26 speak to assumptions about hermeneutics? Are you implying that denying biblical inerrancy is equivalent to calling the apostles liars? |
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Oct 31 |
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Does Joh 14:26 speak to assumptions about hermeneutics? Who are you including in "the apostles"? Do we even know what most of the 12 did after the day of Pentecost? |
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Oct 29 |
accepted | Why would God disapprove of rituals he ordained? |
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Oct 29 |
answered | Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? |
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Oct 29 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Oct 28 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Oct 28 |
accepted | What are higher and lower criticism? |
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Oct 27 |
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What are higher and lower criticism? added alternative terms that may be more common than "higher" and "lower" |
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Oct 27 |
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Why is “raah” usually translated differently in Amos 3:6 and 9:4 Possibly relevant: The NRSV translates it "harm" instead of "evil" in 9:4. |
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Oct 27 |
asked | Why would God disapprove of rituals he ordained? |
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Oct 27 |
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What is “verbal plenary inspiration” and to what texts does it apply? re: "This is a view mainly held by Protestants," or more precisely, by Evangelical Protestants |
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Oct 27 |
awarded | Editor |
