Subject: why five stones |
Bible Note: Dear meta, While typology has been a popular subject over the last few decades, one particularly promoted by the prophecy mongers in our day, we need to be extremely careful about employing. We look, instead, to authorization elsewhere in Scripture to grant that authority. (Scripture is always the best interpreter of Scripture.) In the absence of that authority, we must be extremely cautious not to go places that the Scripture never intends to take us. Better to stay on the clear path. As has been said before, "If the plain sense makes good sense than avoid any other sense." It is perfectly permissible for us to say, "Scripture does not explicitly tell us why there were five stones. Since Scripture does not present the answer, we are being presumptuous in offering one." May the Lord help us to always say what Scripture says, never removing a thing that is said, and never adding things that are not said. We are on highly dangerous ground in doing either. In Him, Doc |