"I asked if you had any Scripture backing up your apparent assertion that only things found explicitly (stated in clear language without any reasoning or thought being necessary to develop a principle from the Scriptural material) in Scripture are to believed."
I don't know if there is a scripture verse backing my "apparent assertion", there maybe. But since all scripture is God-breathed, then it's the only thing I want to believe in.
If scripture is God-Breathed, then why would anyone believe anything else regarding HIS wishes for us ? If God wanted us to know something, it's not like he would forget something very important or mistakenly leave it out. Right ?
I guess you didn't think this through.
But since all scripture is God-breathed, then it's the only thing I want to believe in.
"All" and "only" are two different words. Really. You can look it up.
If scripture is God-Breathed, then why would anyone believe anything else regarding HIS wishes for us ?
Who said I was going to "believe anything else?" I am talking about the meaning of Scripture and what ways we can glean dogma and doctrine from what is revealed within.
My question, basically, is "are we allowed to read Scripture and then think about it, or must we limit ourselves in belief to only those thing which are stated in a simple fahsion in Scripture?"
The corollary, which you alread danced around is "If we are to limit ourselves to simple statements in Scripture, where in Scripture is this simply stated?"
SD