Subject: Help! Unclean vs clean meat? |
Bible Note: COLT .045 (Steven) :: When someone brings the authenticity of a biblical passage into question, I should expect him to offer cogent reasons for doing so, and the mere fact that the passage may APPEAR TO YOU to be in conflict with one's interpretation of that passage or another passage does not measure up as being a cogent reason at all. (1) Do you have any evidence whatever that the text has been tampered with? (2) Do you bring the authenticity of one text into question in order to force it to comply with your interpretation of another? (3) Do you customarily dismiss the authenticity of a text which you do not understand or with which you do not agree? ...... It is, as Searcher has already pointed out, serious business to question a biblical text, particularly in the absence of iron-clad proof that that text has been corrupted. Upon whose authority are we proceeding? Who granted us the right to question or pass judgment upon the word of God? .... It must strike the other readers of Study Bible Forum as odd -- as it does this reader -- to see one lone registrant question the authenticity of a portion of Scripture which countless biblical scholars down through the long halls of time have not seen fit to do. --Hank |