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1 | Contemporizing Christians Message? | 2 Tim 4:2 | Tamara Brewington | 205855 | ||
Dear Doc, Because the Biblical world is different from the present it will be necessary to make the message drawn from theology understandable for the present. To do this it is necessary to find modern correspondents for outdated cultural settings in order for people to understand what is being conveyed. There are several approaches to this problem and they are as follows: 1.Presentation of Biblical ideas using terminology from the Bible without interpreting what the Bible says to make it understandable to the present – the Holy Spirit does the work of making the Biblical ideas understandable in order to prevent perversion of the Biblical ideas. The problem with this view is that it presupposes that everyone will be able to understand things written to people in other cultures and to other settings which have absolutely no relevance to today's experience. 2.Transformation of the Christian message through the deletion of the parts of the Bible that have no present time equivalent in order to make the Bible relevant to the present – because modern intellect rejects the supernatural, the message of Christianity is changed in its essentials to conform to society. The problem with this view is that it removes whatever is not relevant to today in an attempt to make the Bible relevant to today by using only the parts that are equivalent to today. 3.Translation of the Christian message by restating the message into modern concepts without losing the essential portion of the original teaching from the Bible – the Christian message is expressed in modern terms without trying to make it acceptable on modern grounds by finding modern correspondents for outdated cultural settings. Go figure... Go to thy curate and preacher; show thyself to be desirous to know and learn, and I doubt not but God -- seeing thy diligence and readiness (if no man else teach thee) -- will Himself vouchsafe with His Holy Spirit to illuminate thee, and to open unto thee that which was locked from thee." --Thomas Cramner - So then well, someone has to take the time to make it relevant to today don't they? God's Day To You, Tamara |
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2 | Contemporizing Christians Message? | 2 Tim 4:2 | DocTrinsograce | 205863 | ||
ACK! | ||||||
3 | Contemporizing Christians Message? | 2 Tim 4:2 | Val | 205865 | ||
ACK! me too | ||||||
4 | Contemporizing Christians Message? | 2 Tim 4:2 | DocTrinsograce | 205868 | ||
I'm still ACKing... but Ben Patterson ACKs with a bit more perspicuity: "This particular temptation used to be the sole province of the liberal theological tradition. But in the past few years, it has gained a number of victims in the evangelical community ... The sin courted in this temptation is the presumption that it is the Bible that is dead and we who are alive ... Is the Bible relevant? Dr. Bernard Ramm once remarked, 'There is nothing more relevant than the truth.' The longer I preach, the more convinced I become that the best thing I can do is simply get out of Scripture's way." |
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5 | Contemporizing Christians Message? | 2 Tim 4:2 | Val | 205874 | ||
Dear Doc, Exactly, the liberal theology gives the interpreter more leeway in their interpretations rather than making the bible their plumbline. Their interpretations have to line up with the bible not the other way around. This is why context is so crucial and why the further we get from the literal texts the closer we get to error. One example is if I wrote someone a letter and they pulled out one line of my letter. They could bend it to whatever form they like. This is what many news medias do. They bend a comment to their particular liking. The author of the line in frustration says that is not what I meant at all. Blessings, Val |
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