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NASB | Deuteronomy 19:21 "Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 19:21 "You shall not show pity [to the guilty one]: it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. |
Subject: Harmonizing the Word Hermeneutically |
Bible Note: Dear Ed, Do I understand correctly that you are saying that all of these men are right? Did they all "throw off all normal shackles?" As I read excerpts from each of these Dispensational Scholars, several of them argued that the reason the others differed in the enumeration and identification of the dispensations was because they were either insufficiently spiritual (I'm not sure what that means) or they were inadequately learned in sound interpretation of the Scriptures. If they said that of one another, it is hard to imagine them all rendering sound doctrine. I'm sorry, but it sounds like they did, indeed, need luck (or some other equivalent means) to discern the Word. Certainly the Holy Spirit would not have led them into contradictory and confused interpretations. As Martin Luther wrote, "And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that their exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God’s giving it to us?" The law of non-contradiction would not permit us to -- in soundness of mind -- accept the diversity of Biblical exegesis as each every one right in the same sense and in the same way. Some of those men must have been way off base. I cannot feret through all of this confusion. It is like being in a room where everyone is talking at once in a different language on different topics. What hope is there for me to understand Dispensation rightly if there is no consensus amongst its adherents? Share with me the textbook that you used in your Bible college on Dispensationalism, and I promise to read it cover to cover (Proverbs 2:4-6). As in the time of Jeremiah (5:1-3), I believe that any sound doctrine can be articulated consistently and with perspicuity (cf Revelation 2:24). In Him, Doc |