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To: HarleyD; Kolokotronis; kosta50; sionnsar; Cronos
While we revere the word of God, we look upon the method just as paper and ink.

Your wording is ackward. I will assume you mean that the Bible is printed on paper and ink. And writing in the margins of your Bible is a method of getting at the meaning of the words.

The Bible is printed on paper with ink for Anglicans, Orthodox, and Catholics too. And some people from those confessions do write in their personal Bibles. But the reason I don't is because I am not a nominalist. It isn't enough to recognize the Bible is printed on paper with ink. You also need to go beyond the conceptual nature of language as well. The map isn't the territory you are journeying through.

Revering the Bible isn't revering paper and ink. More importantly neither is it revering concepts of the mind. It is an approach to Divine Personhood. Christians traditionally call that the Trinity.

122 posted on 12/13/2005 10:19:14 AM PST by stripes1776
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To: stripes1776; HarleyD; Kolokotronis; sionnsar; Cronos

If there is one thing that should be more than revered -- as icons are -- it is the Bible. It is through Scripoture that Almighty God speaks to us directly, for that is what we believe. When we open the Book, we are face-to-face with the words and wisdom of God. If you think about it, we should all fall face down at that revelation, but we don't. Our Protestant friends scribble their own profane words on the pages of the Bible. It makes me wonder if there is anything they truly consider holy enough or do they confuse our fellowship with God for a "partnership?"


131 posted on 12/13/2005 2:07:51 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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