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To: Forest Keeper; annalex; Kolokotronis; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD; kawaii; jo kus; adiaireton8
This is a difficult teaching for me because I can't reconcile imperfect expression with "God-breathed". I can't imagine why God wouldn't love us enough to give us perfect expression

When our minds become perfect, and our language evolves to perfection, and we become spiritually perfect in order to receive perfect Spirit perfectly, then God's perfect truth will be expressed perfectly.

In the meantime, we discern perfect truth through imperfection, and that in itself is a divine paradox.

God would build in error, just to let men be glorified by correcting it

But you already believe that God created Adam to fail!

How would you describe the value of Canonization? I think it was useful to formalize, but I don't think they were really breaking any new ground,/I>

By the time the Christian Bible was formally canonized at the end of the 4th century, most churches were using the unofficial canon which was more or less similar but no identical. Thus, the oldest known complete Christian Bible (Codex Sinaiticus) contains two non-canonical books, The Epistle of Barnabus, and the Shepherd of Hermes. Canonization standardized all Christian bibles and removed vestigial non-canonical books that were part of many if not most individual church bibles. It was absolutely necessary to remove those because until then any book that was read in a church was considered "scripture."

15,416 posted on 05/29/2007 2:47:41 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; annalex; HarleyD; kawaii; jo kus; adiaireton8

“In the meantime, we discern perfect truth through imperfection, and that in itself is a divine paradox.”

“As through a glass darkly”, I think is the phrase! :)


15,420 posted on 05/29/2007 3:11:41 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: kosta50; annalex; Kolokotronis; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD; kawaii; jo kus; adiaireton8
When our minds become perfect, and our language evolves to perfection, and we become spiritually perfect in order to receive perfect Spirit perfectly, then God's perfect truth will be expressed perfectly.

I would say that for us, this sounds reasonable, but we're talking about the Apostles and other authors of the Bible. Do you mean that they were no more advanced than us such that they could express the truth perfectly? I would disagree with that since it would obviously diminish the power of God's word.

FK: "God would build in error, just to let men be glorified by correcting it"

But you already believe that God created Adam to fail!

No, I've said several times that it was not the purpose for creating him, although it was a part of God's plan. No error involved. Human history has evolved just as God wanted it to.

15,493 posted on 06/04/2007 1:20:06 AM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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