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To: Fester Chugabrew
I carried over your sarcasm. Change the word "capable" to "incapable" to remove it. My point is that capacity for electricity to do what it does is not necessarily dependent upon those whom it effects. The infallible nature of biblical texts is inherent. So is the fallibility of all who read it. This in no way renders the texts as useless, any more than electricty can be rendered useless by those who abuse it or misunderstand it.

So, in spite of your obtuse demurral, you do, in fact, agree with me: the text is infallible, but there is no possible way to get what it says into my brain, except by fallible means.

637 posted on 06/23/2005 5:20:35 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
So, in spite of your obtuse demurral, you do, in fact, agree with me: the text is infallible, but there is no possible way to get what it says into my brain, except by fallible means.

I am much in agreement with you in ways you may not imagine, but the matter is not as simple as you lay out here.

Yes, the text is infallible, and there is every opportunity for it to be misunderstood and abused, much like electricity. The means by which the text "gets into your brain", whether properly or improperly, is outside of reason and is properly the subject of theology.

The effect seems to be dichotomous wherever it is presented, not unlike positive and negative, physical and spiritual, Newton and Einstein, yin and yang, hot and cold, life and death, and so on. And yet even this is too simplistic, because the biblical texts themsleves testify to the ultimate involvement of the Creator in the physical world, even to the point of taking up human flesh to draw human flesh to Himself, even to the point of enduring death.

The texts will either be properly recognized for the authority they carry and thus be handled with care, or they will be subject to rejection and ridicule and thus have the effect of a raw lightening bolt. When, how, and where the text is properly understood, and especially why, is not my prerogative to investigate.

It has not been a matter of deep concern to me to realize there are areas of both science and theology where I must throw up my hands and say, "I don't know." But this I know, both by reason of biblical texts and intuition: an orderly universe does not pop out of nowhere without inteligent guidance and purpose.

640 posted on 06/23/2005 8:10:57 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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