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1 | Arguing Among Apostles?? | Gal 2:11 | Inquisitor | 224677 | ||
Dad (tongue-in-cheek), I'm not certain but it seems you're trying to imply that my post was "speculating outside what has been revealed." Would you care to elaborate and pinpoint which particular statement is in conflict? I try very hard with all of my posts to this Forum to keep my statements within the bounderies of God's Word, or at least His Intent. Surely you don't think our Lord forbids us to use our imagination when He leaves out some of the details in His stories. I'm hoping to walk away from this thread of dicsussion with some encouragement. Do you have any such words for me? God bless you, Inquisitor |
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2 | Arguing Among Apostles?? | Gal 2:11 | DocTrinsograce | 224704 | ||
Dear Inquisitor, You asked, "I'm not certain but it seems you're trying to imply that my post was 'speculating outside what has been revealed.'" I am sorry, I had hoped to be more perspicuous: I intended to state that explicitly, not imply it. Implications are of dubious value, and certainly of no value in attaining a positive result to a rebuke. You asked, "Would you care to elaborate and pinpoint which particular statement is in conflict?" I will. I'll have to go back through and collect them from various threads, but I can do that if you really need me to. You wrote, "I try very hard with all of my posts to this Forum to keep my statements within the bounderies of God's Word, or at least His Intent." (sic) The first part of that statement is very good. We are trying to assist you in achieving that objective more successfully. Relative to God's intent, that is revealed solely through the Word. This is what is meant by sola scriptura. You wrote, "Surely you don't think our Lord forbids us to use our imagination when He leaves out some of the details in His stories." If we articulate our imagination (1) it must not be contrary to what Scripture reveals, or (2) encourages the less learned to place a high value on speculations in general -- please read 1 Timothy 1:3-8. Furthermore, we are a forum all about what the Word says... not about what the Word does not say. There are many other forums on the Internet for those sorts of things. You wrote, "I'm hoping to walk away from this thread of dicsussion with some encouragement." (sic) That is our objective in correcting you, son. We gain no satisfaction except in magnifying the Word of God, and teaching others to handle it skillfully. To that end, we regularly beseech the Lord, for ourselves as well as for you. You wrote, "Do you have any such words for me?" Yes, let me go ahead and quote that passage I cited above: As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions. But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully... (1 Timothy 1:3-8 NASB) In Him, Doc |
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3 | Arguing Among Apostles?? | Gal 2:11 | Inquisitor | 224730 | ||
I can only respond with what's in the Bible. In God's Word, we have many, MANY parables from the world's best Teacher, Jesus Himself. He teaches from Parables because He's the best at taking "earthly basic truths from God's Creation and illustrating points of Hevenly Principles or Truths from His Father." Now most of His parables are given so those with a hunger for righteousness (then and now) can see between the lines and appreciate the Teaching as given by our Lord. So that means we must learn to make conclusions, using our minds and gleaning the most important threads in those parables and arrive at the ultimate point to which our Lord is pointing. See Matt 13:10-16. Only with a very few Parables, the Lord is forced to interpret the Parable even to His beloved disciples, i.e. The Sower and the Parable on the wheat and tares, Matt 13. So here the Lord is actually encouraging us to "put two and two together" and come up with the right interpretation. Seems like a sound Biblical Principle to me. The most important conclusion to draw from all this is as you alluded. We MUST make certain we do conclude those things in accordance with the whole NT. Thus we don't have any contradiction within God's Word. This way, we can comply with Paul's words to Timothy. God bless you in your studies, Inquisitor |
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4 | Arguing Among Apostles?? | Gal 2:11 | stjohn | 224731 | ||
Inquisitor, would you be so kind as to enlighten us on what the rule is for interpreting the parables that Jesus apparently left us to figure out on our own? Is it posable for us to determine this from the sacred text we have been given? -John | ||||||
5 | Arguing Among Apostles?? | Gal 2:11 | Inquisitor | 224734 | ||
Just one that comes immediately to mind is that of Lazarus and the rich man. Many think this is a parable based with a fictional name then there are a significant portion of others who think this is based on a true story of two individuals who passed on to their Maker. Jesus doesn't give us much help with this quandry. This is the only one of which I can think at the moment, but I'll think on your question and will answer as best as I can. I would have to defer to someone else for an answer to the second question. |
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6 | Arguing Among Apostles?? | Gal 2:11 | stjohn | 224737 | ||
That particular story told by Jesus as far as I know is not a parable. It just doesn't fit the criterion for a parable as it is told more as a contemporary story about perhaps real people that the crowed would recognize. Although this may be only a theory it is well excepted by many respected scholars. Try again? | ||||||