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I am in my senior term at the Seminary of the Wilderness. My first ten years were spent as bi-vocational pastor/evangelist in Utah preaching of Christ how I knew best and trying to improve by learning theology from Reformed, Wesleyan, Pentecostal, Baptist and other sources. The second ten years were spent as a BVP/E and discovering that I didn't know what I thought I knew and reading the Bible without outside influence. At the beginning of the third ten I started seeing Christ in the OT, and tried to figure out how and why. I intend in the fourth ten to figure out how to communicate what I learned last term. After that I might be useful for something.

My bias in approaching the Bible is that I believe that it exists in a form today sufficiently intact to be considered infallible. That apparent contradictions are intentional riddles designed to guide us in focusing on different aspects of Christ. That sensus plenior exists in a form which is discernible in a verifiable, and reproducible manner. And that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.


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answered What is “the hermeneutical circle”?
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comment What is “the hermeneutical circle”?
If a hermeneutical principle is not derived from the scriptures, then it is by definition man-made. No wonder we have free-for-all hermeneutics ;-)
Jul
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comment What is “the hermeneutical circle”?
Hmmm... I seem to remember that a programming language wasn't considered a real language if it's own compiler couldn't be written in it. So why would asking for hermeneutical principles derived from the scriptures be any different?
Jul
7
revised How are verses indicating that God is a God of war, and others indicating that he is a God of peace reconciled to not be contradictory?
Redit title question
Jul
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comment How are verses indicating that God is a God of war, and others indicating that he is a God of peace reconciled to not be contradictory?
Any claim of contradiction, is a claim that the rule of non-contradiction has been violated. By it's very nature it is a hermeneutic problem to be resolved by showing either that the time of A and -A is different, or the -A is really a different way of describing A and is therefore not contradictory. How does this differ from any other question involving contradiction? How can any rebuttal to a claim of contradiction not address the rule of non-contradiction, if even indirectly?
Jul
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revised Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
added conclusion; added 9 characters in body
Jul
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revised Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
added paragraph on genetics.
Jul
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comment Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
@monica THere's a name for the structural pattern in Hebrew ABA. Where the references at the beginning are repeated at the end. But I can't remember what it is.
Jul
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revised Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
added note on the open parenthesis.
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revised Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
Added Jesus's teaching; added 26 characters in body
Jul
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revised Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
added last paragraph
Jul
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revised Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
Cleaned up
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revised Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
added explanation for v4&5
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answered Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
Jul
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comment How are verses indicating that God is a God of war, and others indicating that he is a God of peace reconciled to not be contradictory?
The carnal mind is enmity with God. God is at war with the flesh. Peace with God is a spiritual condition. Showing the duality may be sufficient to show that the claimed -A is B.
Jul
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comment How are verses indicating that God is a God of war, and others indicating that he is a God of peace reconciled to not be contradictory?
@Caleb The skeptic points out that the Bible says God is A and -A. The proper answer is to show that -A is really B, and they have butchered the law of non-contradiction. This is a hermeneutic problem.
Jul
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comment How are verses indicating that God is a God of war, and others indicating that he is a God of peace reconciled to not be contradictory?
@Caleb It is textual as an apparent contradiction, and should be resolved by showing how the rule of non-contradiction is not violated because the way that God's character is being referred to is different in the two passages. The hermeneutic error is in assuming a contradiction, rather than looking for the way his character is being referred to. I have asked Jas to address that in the answer.
Jul
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revised Why was a chapter division placed at the end of Genesis 1, rather than between 2:3 and 2:4?
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Jul
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comment Why was a chapter division placed at the end of Genesis 1, rather than between 2:3 and 2:4?
A few more chapters like this and it might be considered evidence that Langton saw sensus plenior.
Jul
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answered Why was a chapter division placed at the end of Genesis 1, rather than between 2:3 and 2:4?