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To: annalex; Forest Keeper
but we want the reading that conforms with the intent of the writer, and he lived 2,000 years ago.

Living God, living Word of God.

6,670 posted on 05/15/2006 12:17:39 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings
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To: 1000 silverlings; Forest Keeper
Living God, living Word of God.

This is pious sloganeering that would be meaningless, were it not designed to justify the wild speculation about the scripture that marks Protestantism.

The Word is Jesus Himself (John 1, verse 14 in particular). It is not the Word of God as it is simply God.

The Word, however, spoke through the Prophets and Evangelists who are historical men and wrote the scripture rooted in particular cultural and linguistical reality. To think that a 20 century middle class American can read and comprehend scripture with any precision without reference to the two thousand year old realities is a dangerous superstition, of which myths like Da Vinci code are made.

6,680 posted on 05/15/2006 2:44:58 PM PDT by annalex
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