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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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Jul 8 |
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Is Jesus equal to or less than the Father Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace..... every time I think I know how to divide the Trinity, the Christmas verse trips me up. It is never a trivial topic. |
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Jul 8 |
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The number two in the book of Zechariah You have been in Zech a while. If you would like to see the whole book unpacked, drop me a note and I'll start working on it. I'd have to do it through e-mail because I don't know what format it would take here. |
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Jul 8 |
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The number two in the book of Zechariah Just a note.. 7 is the number of completeness in SP. There are six spatial rays of direction, and a seventh in time (you cannot go back in time). 4 is the whole word of God as revealed through prophet, priest, king and judge. These are duals of duals (HH, HE, EH, EE) The duality of time is between time/eternity. As for rhetorical emphasis, tere is a Jewsih rule that says a double letter is not a new root, but an expansion (of some sort) of the root with a single letter. Using this rule it is determined that Cain had a twin sister and Abel had two twin sisters (triplets) |
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Jul 8 |
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The number two in the book of Zechariah @Kazark Try applying it everywhere you see it. If it only works here it is just free-for-all allegory with a coincidental application. If it works everywhere, it is God's intended meaning. |
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Jul 7 |
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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 ;-) |
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Jul 7 |
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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? |
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Jul 7 |
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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? |
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Jul 7 |
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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. |
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Jul 7 |
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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. |
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Jul 7 |
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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. |
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Jul 7 |
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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. |
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Jul 7 |
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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. |
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Jul 7 |
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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 end of war is peace" Oliver Cromwell |
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Jul 7 |
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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? Good start... I'd like to see a specific reference to the rule of non-contradiction so that the skeptic can see specifically how he abuses it. Your article implies that the "way" has changed rather than God having changed with time. Can you address that using the terms of the rule of non-contradiction. Each answer that references it builds a case against the skeptic for abusing the rule. Thanks. |
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Jul 7 |
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Does the Gospel of Thomas help in reproducing the hermeneutical methods of the apostles? Also look how they treat John the B. Mark plainly states that John fulfills prophecy by coming before Jesus. Matthew adds the SP images of the vipers and the axe. Luke includes the birth of John and the sign of his father "no water/word" until John. And John includes the imagery of the firmament of Gen 1. Each a bit more sophisticated that n the previous authors. |
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Jul 7 |
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Does the Gospel of Thomas help in reproducing the hermeneutical methods of the apostles? I am very skeptical about Q. ;-) Under the assumptions of SP, the disciples were taught how to read the Bible by Jesus, not given omniscient knowledge of it. So each successive book, in the order above, shows a more in depth knowledge of the SP in the OT. Just look at where each author begins the story. Mark with John's preaching, Matthew with Abraham. Luke with Adam. John with Gen 1:1. As they each had more time than the previous author to practice reading as Jesus taught, they make a deeper application of OT scripture. |
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Jul 6 |
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Does the Gospel of Thomas help in reproducing the hermeneutical methods of the apostles? "But I would want to know if there's any connection between the Gospel of Thomas and the apostles." I would suggest taht many people had access to the apostles, and that GOT was produce FROM their teaching, not the other way around. |
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Jul 6 |
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Does the Gospel of Thomas help in reproducing the hermeneutical methods of the apostles? Some GOT researchers place an early date on GOT even preceding the gospels. If the gospels are the recorded "dog and pony show" (not meant derogatorily, but based on the repetion of the apostles, preaching the same thing in many places) then a contemporaneous origin is not out of the question. They would be sermon notes on how to read the OT. and the gospels would be the events that Jesus did that fulfilled the OT. This can be shown if the gospels are analyzed as if written in the order Mark, Matt, Luke John, each becoming more sophisticated in the use of SP. |
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Jul 6 |
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Does the Gospel of Thomas help in reproducing the hermeneutical methods of the apostles? THe GOT has been labelled as Gnostic by those who attempt to understand it literally. Philo is more tunes to Pythogreans, and Greek Philosophy. His use of numerology is completely different. Scholors say that it is likely he did not read Hebrew, without which there can be little tie to the gospels. I have shown that even the Logos is traceable to Gen 1:1 rather than to Philo. |
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Jul 6 |
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How does the rule of non-contradiction differ between Greek logic and Biblical Hermeneutics? There is a bad hermeneutic rule that says an author uses the same word in the same way... this is obviously not true, in the examples you give. |