Timeline for How did the widow have water for Elijah in 1 Kings 17?
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| Feb 7, 2014 at 22:27 | comment | added | rhetorician | I prophesy we will be butting heads for the duration ("Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another," but I surmise you think I remain dull for my eisegesis!). I have a feeling your response to my last comment will be be, more or less, "But bifurcation of an old text from today's reality is necessary for a thorough-going hermeneutic. And besides, the majority of the moderators want the site to be run this way. So, rhetorician, get in lockstep with the moderators." My response: No. The moderators and all who contribute to or read BHB need my perspective for a well-rounded hermeneutic. Selah | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 22:21 | comment | added | rhetorician | You: "[We are here to] understand [the text] on its own terms." Have you ever thought that maybe your brand of hermeneutics is also a form of eisegesis. In other words, according to you, the text's meaning can somehow be divorced--bracketed--from today's reality. That bifurcation is rhetorically derived and is not derived from God's "Ten Commandments of hermeneutics." If you think what I've just said is a bunch of fancy sophistic footwork, think again. At the bare minimum, a text observed is a text changed by one's present reality. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 20:35 | comment | added | Caleb | @rhetorician Do you see how different a wavelength that comment is on? I stopped after resolving the perceived issue in the text, you are stretching my answer to apply to Californian politics. Even in comments let's keep the venue in mind. Why are we here? To examine the text and understand it on its own terms. What we do with that knowledge is the scope of a different venue. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 20:12 | comment | added | rhetorician | Yes, I agree. Drought is the result of the lack of rain. God in His gracious provision created ground water, aquifers, underground springs, and such, which may be affected by the lack of rain, but they don't completely dry up. What's happening out west in the U.S. may require tapping into underground sources of water, which is an expensive proposition but is a very real possibility. (As if California doesn't already have enough financial woes!) | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 10:20 | history | edited | Caleb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 29, 2014 at 9:40 | history | edited | Caleb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 29, 2014 at 8:25 | vote | accept | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | ||
| Jan 28, 2014 at 22:16 | history | answered | Caleb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |