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NASB | Mark 7:9 ¶ He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 7:9 ¶ He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside and nullifying the commandment of God in order to keep your [man-made] tradition and regulations. |
Subject: Church Fathers? Part V |
Bible Note: Dear Ed, Since logic is the characteristic of God's thinking, and scripture is a part of the mind of God (1 Corinthians 2:16), it follows that scripture must be logical. What is said in Scripture is God's infallible and inerrant thought. This is why Paul could reason with people from Scripture (Acts 17:2). Even God calls us to reason together with Him (Isiah 1:8). Hinduism is anti-thought. As one famous Guru said, "Thought is like a snake in the grass. It must be beaten until it is dead." Christianity at its very roots is a matter of logic. How else do we interpret the first three chapters of Genesis? We understand the anti-intellectual aspects of popular independent church doctrine (a sort of non-sequitur, that!). As Reformed people, we do not reject thought. If we did, your objection would be utterly unintelligible. Yet you clearly demonstrate thought in the choice of words and their sequence. Teach people to handle sound reason, not disband all reason altogether. Then they will immediately detect faulty logic. God, making us in His image, is a rational being. To deny that which is rational is to deny God, to deny the Word (Logos), and to deny sanity. Although, from what I can tell, abandoning logic sure opens the door to a myriad of false doctrine. I do not criticize you, Ed. Abandon thought in your own church among your own congregants, to whatever extent you feel right in doing. I will defend your right to do so. However, you will never, ever be able instruct a Reformed person with that which is fundamentally irrational. I thought you should know. I remember being on an airplane years ago when a young man carefully and quite rationally, explained that logic was an entirely faulty approach to anything in life. Whenever anyone uses logic and rhetoric to deny logic and rhetoric... well, they are hoist with their own petard. We do not need to work very hard in refuting their position. In Him, Doc |