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1 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 218509 | ||
Hi, Tigerwillow... What you are conjecturing about would be called a Christophany. Sola Scriptura is all about asserting all that Scripture says about a thing, but no more than Scripture says about a thing. There are a lot of implications associated with that extreme of a view of Old Testament Christophanies. A thorough treatment of the question has been undertaken by many scholars of the church over the last twenty centuries. As our study of the Bible here on the SBF is rooted firmly in Sola Scriptura, why don't we just accept what the Bible explicitly says, and avoid speculations about things that it does not explicitly say -- lest we become a Speculative Bible Forum. :-) In Him, Doc |
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2 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218517 | ||
Doc, There are many "problem verses" (as my pastor once phrased it) in the bible that the Evangelists deliberately included w/o any apparent interpretive key or associated scripture. Take John 20:23, for ex: And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." (Joh 20:22-23 NKJV) Jesus appears to give these men divine authority to forgive or retain sins, heretofore the prerogative of God alone. If we are constrained by the rule of "explicity", as you state it, we are left with 2 options: either John the Apostle deliberately left us conjecture-less, or there existed a tradition, perhaps lost, perhaps not, with which his readers were familar but of which we're unaware. It seems that we must conjecture in order to discover what did provide the interpretive framework for this verse. In other words, it appears that in some cases the NT presupposes a contemporary knowledge, tradition or practice within the early church, a background to render intelligible certain verses like the above; otherwise, and according to your formulation, wouldn't John be violating Sola Scriptura by corraling us into conjecture rather than clarity? |
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3 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | DUDUTJ | 218519 | ||
Man once again you'd been wonderful with your words. I'm with you. | ||||||
4 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218526 | ||
You may be referring to Doc's response, not mine. | ||||||