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1 | Knowing the Word | Jer 8:7 | EdB | 233202 | ||
Great quote but let us not forget that serious, faithful and honest expositors do at times come to different conclusions of the meaning of a text. Also one of the main tasks of the Holy Spirit is to teach us and to guide us to the truth. All expositors must remain senstive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. For no amount of education, no amount of logical thinking, no amount of linguistic skills will lead us to the correct understanding of scripture. I have heard faithful and honest men of excellent education, possessing almost infalliable logic, and experts in original languages and being well studied in hermanutics and practiced expositors completely miss what another equally trained and talented person saw. The fact is many theological positions have been debated and discussed without compromise or conclusion since the reformation. |
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2 | Knowing the Word | Jer 8:7 | DocTrinsograce | 233204 | ||
Dear Ed, A while back someone asked why everyone did not come to the same conclusions regarding any given passage. Here are five reasons that appear to account for the discrepancies: 1. Literary Limitations: Absolute precision is impossible due to the fact that there are gaps (linguistic, historic, and cultural) between the writer and the reader. 2. Spiritual Perceptibility: Sometimes interpretation is an intellectual matter, but it is often a matter of spiritual maturity. In there former there are limitations of education. In the latter there are limitations of growth in application of the Word. 3. Profundity of Truth: Truth is not simple, shallow, or trite; it is deep, rich, and often complex. 4. Natural Resistance: Men are not born desiring truth; the flesh resists the truth. 5. Problem of Pop Culture: The world tries to make the Bible more palatable, or squeeze what it says into their own presuppositions of what they think truth ought to be. Relative to the importance of the Holy Spirit in illumination, sola Scriptura always has and ever will stand on His essential contribution to our understanding. The old Baptist divines stated it thus: "The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelation of the Spirit, or traditions of men. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be NECESSARY for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word, and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature [logic] and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed. (2 Timothy 3:15-17; Galatians 1:8,9; John 6:45; 1 Corinthians 2:9-12; 11:13-14; 14:26, 40)" --1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, Chapter 1 (Of the Holy Scriptures), paragraph 6 Let God be true and every man a liar (Romans 3:4). What care we for theological positions that place anything other than God's own Word as paramount? I can quote John Owen on this very question of the Holy Spirit in leading through the Word if you like. In Him, Doc |
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3 | Knowing the Word | Jer 8:7 | azurelaw | 233205 | ||
Dear Brother Doc, I don't know if others like to read more quote from Owen or not, but please do, sir, for I am interested :-) Thanks. Shalom Azure |
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4 | Knowing the Word | Jer 8:7 | DocTrinsograce | 233224 | ||
Here are a few, Sister Azure! :-) "...we believe it [the Scripture], not because men have ministerially led us to the knowledge of it, or have persuaded or commanded us to receive it, or told us it is of God; but because we ourselves have heard and felt Him speaking in it. The Spirit shines into our minds by the light of this word, and speaks loudly to our hearts by the power of it, and plainly tells whose word it is; and so makes us yield to God’s authority." "The Holy Spirit of God, enlightening our minds in the exercise of our own reason or understanding, and in use of the means appointed of God unto that end, is the only safe guide to bring us unto the full assurance of the mind and will of God as revealed in the Scriptures." "Shall we think it strange for a Christian, when it may be after the use of all other means, he finds himself at a loss about the true meaning and intention of the Holy Spirit in any place or text of Scripture to betake himself in a more than ordinary manner unto God by prayer, that He would by His Spirit enlighten, guide, teach, and so reveal the truth unto him? ... This... is the sheet-anchor [an extra large anchor for emergency use] of a faithful expositor of the Scripture, which he betakes himself unto in all difficulties; nor can he without it be led into a comfortable satisfaction that he hath attained the mind of the Holy Ghost in any divine revelation.” |
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