Subject: How do these accounts reconcile? |
Bible Note: Dear John thanks for the further clarification as to where you are at. This is not an adomonition to you John, just an observation. Lionheart said something interesting to someone about reconciling things... He said that it is important to reconcile what appear to be conflicting accounts, or scriptures because of what Paul was saying to Timothy; II Timothy 2:15, 3:16,17 and II Peter 1:19-21. I hear you about not speculating and that you don't engage in it. But there is nothing unBiblical (not that you were saying there was) about attempting to reconcile accounts, or apparently conflicting scriptures based on who the author was, his intent in writing, who his audience was, what the subject matter was and how different authors in the Bible address the subject. It is all part of proper exegesis John (not trying to push you around here, sincerely). I am not offended, every one sees things through the central motif of their own theologial lens... I hear your concern about the over arching message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There are plenty of concerns a person could legitmately have about the Bible than just the end message. The Bible has a lot of parts and there are a whole lot of areas of study concerning the Bible that go into varying aspects of the message. The history in the Bible, the actors in the play, the long progression of how the end message came to be, and on and on. I personally am interested in every facet of these things as they all pretain to or have bearing on the central message you are concerned with. There is room in the body of Christ for a great amount of diversity in all things pretaining to Christ and everything you could possibly study about the Bible is ultimately about Christ. I respect your point of view and it accounts for the content of a whole lot of your replies in answer to some of my questions and notes. Thank you for the clarification for the second time (I think). Ephesians 1:9,10 He has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fulness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heaven and things in the earth. All things will be summed up in Christ, us together as members of one another and the body of Christ and each of our own dedication to understanding the word of God to the full. God Bless, the hat lady |