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1 | With Fear and Trembleing | Ephesians | DocTrinsograce | 208872 | ||
Hi, dispen4ever... This Greenwood fellow certainly stretches Paul's metaphor much farther than the Apostle would have ever imagined. Paul would never have guessed that the human head contained the seat of consciousness -- in his day, the universal opinion was that human conscience resided in the heart. It also amazes me how people take this metaphor of the armor, pulling it out of context. Ephesians, like many of Paul's epistles, contains indicatives and imperatives. The first half of the book is full of indicatives, the second half full of imperatives. In other words, the imperatives arise directly out of the indicatives. All the commands of Scripture are rooted in doctrine. If we lose sight of the doctrine -- or neglect it entirely as Greenwood has done -- the imperatives give rise to pointless legalism. (Of course, that ends of appealing to the masses, which might explain why such teachers manage to continue to pull down a salary.) These things are only the beginning of problems with this article. No, if resisting the devil is not based in the complete and ongoing work of every member of our Triune God -- as the prior chapters of Ephesians state -- we simply lade our readers with another problem arguably more serious than the first! In Him, Doc |
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2 | With Fear and Trembleing | Ephesians | dispen4ever | 208892 | ||
Doc........ the whole armor of God is Jesus. We put on Jesus. We are inhabited by the Holy Spirit. Quoting you: "If resisting the devil is not based in the complete and ongoing work of every member of our Triune God....." Where in scripture does it say anything else? Where in the article I presented, designed to point out the nature of the whole armor of God, does it say otherwise? It is an example, not a declaration of truth found outside the Bible. | ||||||
3 | With Fear and Trembleing | Ephesians | DocTrinsograce | 208907 | ||
Dear dispn4ever, You asked, "...does it say otherwise?" Let me state it more clearly: It isn't so much what Greenwood says as what he fails to say. To be sure, Greenwood cites dozens of individual Scripture passages. Yet it is very telling that none of those passages cited are from Ephesians itself! Greenwood's fixation on "envisioning" each and every imagined component of the Paul's armor metaphor, leaves him completely ignoring its context! Astounding that he expect to interpret the Holy Spirit's intent while ignoring everything that He says leading up to that point! Now, how can we possibly adopt as appropriate normative behavior, something drawn out of such shoddy exegesis? (See post #158836.) Sorry, dispen... Our forum explicitly presupposes the doctrine of sola Scriptura... a doctrine that includes the importance of context. Like the A1 commercial says, "Yeah. It's that important." In Him, Doc |
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