Subject: Good News Bible? |
Bible Note: John, lest you be accused of being too blunt with your words, let me hasten to defend them on the solid grounds that they do indeed speak the truth and the truth needs to be spoken. What you have said in this post applies equally to me and to you and to all other users of the Forum. We simply must write "finis" to our proclivity toward filling the pages of this Forum with post after post that claim knowledge, insight, expertise and biblical didacticism when in fact they are nothing more than thinly disguised efforts to blow smoke in the air. I can think of no way to display my ignorance more baldly than to presume to know something about which I know nothing, or to refuse to yield my poor opinions to those whose opinions are the rich harvest of years of prayer, dedication, study and reflection. And no truer can it be said that a passage of Scripture means what it means and is in no wise dependent upon what it may mean, or not mean, to me. --Hank |