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1 | Apostolic Proof-texting? | John 7:18 | EdB | 86215 | ||
Just Read Mark I see Tim has already answered you and I agree with what he said. However let me add, there is another trap we can fall into when handling scripture. That trap is dismissing scripture or explaining it away, as addressing a situation that doesn’t exist today. Today many take great pleasure in explaining what the writer was "really" saying. Verses that I believe should be read and understood for what they say, many times are discounted by those that say, "the author was addressing a certain situation that existed at that time. This admonishment doesn't pertain to the church today." To that I say, "baloney!!!" I think anytime you say, “what God really meant was …” Your corrupting scripture. The Bible is timeless if there was a reason to address the situation then, I believe the admonishment still pertains to us today. To say this admonishment only pertained to them because of a certain situation is modifying scripture not explaining it. To the situation of what you call “strange readings” where a verse is used to point to Jesus, but within context addresses something entirely different. Within the Bible there often times a duplicity of meaning, there is a word for it that slips my mind. However in every case of this duplicity of meaning the alternate or less obvious meaning always pointed to the coming Messiah and not doctrine or used as proof of a new teaching. I agree with Tim that the Holy spirit then enlightened the mind to reveal this alternate reading. Once again man has tried to find these passages, and many have profited handsomely (writing books/giving lectures) from inventing or suggesting such occurrences. However I think all the important ones had already been quoted in the Bible, as you mentioned, accomplished, as Tim mentioned, through the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. What man tries to do today is find or suggest “MYSTERY” rather than LIVE THE LIFE. EdB |
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2 | Apostolic Proof-texting? | John 7:18 | Emmaus | 86230 | ||
EdB, I unintentionally left out the following paragraphs from my previous post. These paragraphs set up the other ones I quoted. "115 According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral and anagogical senses. The profound concordance of the four senses guarantees all its richness to the living reading of Scripture in the Church. 116 The literal sense is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation: "All other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal."[83] The Catechism Emmaus |
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