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1 | How can incest be forbidden? | Gen 3:3 | EdB | 129784 | ||
Doc I know there is a group of theologians that have everything figured out cut and dried. It amuses me and I'm sure it does God also since He told us He hasn't revealed all His mysteries to us. While I know perfectly what you think Paul said let us not go there. I didn't say I see God change his mind. I said I see things that appears that God has changed his mind but I know God never changes so therefore the problem isn't God changing but rather my perception. It is just that, my knowledge of human beings that convinces me I know little of what they are thinking. In fact in may cases they know little of what exactly it is that they are thinking. Your statement, “No we can't know what God, etc. was thinking. But God gave us the scripture. If we take great care in its study, we can lift from its pages the very heart motivations that made people behave as they did. It is all right there for our instruction.” I disagree. Scripture is living and I believe we may read scripture today and see a motivation in a negative sense and realize it also resides in us. However we can read the same scripture and see an entirely different motivation this time a positive one that we also become aware is sadly lacking in us and we need to culture it in our lives. Scripture is not a ‘text book’ scripture is living breathing and God speaks to us by it, but God also speaks through it. This is my main problem with so many that claim they have a handle on what the Bible says. How can they it is fresh everyday. EdB |
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2 | How can incest be forbidden? | Gen 3:3 | DocTrinsograce | 129805 | ||
Ed, there are many situations in scripture where we can deduce what God or men were thinking. We can't know this conclusively, but we can make good educated guesses. We can look at God's call to Adam, "Where art thou?" and, in the light of the rest of scripture, understand what God may well have intended by this question, though it is not specifically articulated in scripture. We can look at Jacob's insistence on placing his right hand on Ephraim and his left hand on Manasseh to bless them and, in the light of the rest of scripture, understand what Jacob intended, though it is not specifically articulated in the scripture. We can look at Joshua's action again Ai and, in the light of the rest of scripture, understand what Joshua intended, though it is not specifically articulated in scripture. We can look at David's response to Saul and, in the light of the rest of scripture, understand what David's attitude toward Saul was, though it is not specifically articulated in scripture. We can hear the sarcasm in Nathanael's remark about "any good thing" coming out of Nazareth, though it is not specifically articulated in scripture. We can hear the anger in Jesus' declaration of "Woe" on the cities that rejected Him, though it is not specifically articulated in scripture. The book of Jonah intentionally ends leaving the reader to speculate about Jonah's intentions and God's instruction. This happens all over the place in scripture. You and I must both work through these things frequently and continually. Therefore, I am mystified by your adamant disagreement. However, I agree that the Word is living. This is confirmed both by scripture and experience. Though it lives, it is also a rock. The fact that it applies itself to a variety of situations, and that its depths cannot be plumbed, does not mean that it cannot be likened to a textbook or guidebook. True, it is more than these things, but it is these things as well. PS Who in the world are you thinking of when you say, "so many that claim they have a handle on what the Bible says?" If you are painting me with that brush, you do err exceedingly. |
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3 | How can incest be forbidden? | Gen 3:3 | EdB | 129810 | ||
Doc While I have not met everyone, those that I have met that views the Bible as merely a textbook is very swallow in their walk with God. I'm not referring to anyone other than those that met that criteria. As far as your PS again I'm not directing it at anyone other than those that claim that criteria. Your right we can make assumations, however we should never let those assumations be the basis for our faith. Scripture is full of explicit truths and those are what we are to stand on. We have to very careful to judge motivatives as God has clearly told us only He can see the heart. Many may say they understand David's motivatives in his actions, however no one can say for certain were they human motivatives, or God directed or some combination there of. Further if we go back to and call them human motivates and explore the possibilities, we can see David may have been highly moralistic and acted accordingly. He also could have had a high degree of the fear of the Lord and acted accordingly. Or he could have been what we might call humanistic and have acted accordingly. Or it could have been the combination of all three. Therefore I stand on my original statement Scripture is living and the understandings we reach as we read it is God invoked. Passaged I read today will leave me with possibly far different conclusions and judgments of peoples actions and motivates than it will tomorrow. However of this I'm sure each new lesson is the one I need for this place and time. EdB |
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