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To: kosta50; Elsie; P-Marlowe; hosepipe; Dr. Eckleburg

You seem obsessed to have everyone acknowledge your scholarship, offering broad assertions such as, “[the] Bible ... show(s) that human hands left singificant fingerprints on the scriptures, all of which amount to corruption.” Let us look at that assertion from God’s perspective. Yes, men have corrupted the written directions dictated (in a manner of speaking), the most gross being the Masoretic texts where Jews decided to edit out anything that one might construe as referring to Rabbi Jesus. But that begs the question of how could men defeat God’s sovereign plans? Is it so easy to edit out what God actually is instructing with the scriptures? You would answer that with a strong affirmative as evidenced by your many references to corruption and inferences that the texts cannot be trusted to do that which God intends. I would offer in reply that you do not actually understand what it is that God does with His words in the believer and what it is that He has designed into the Word such that even the corrupting you claim has not diminished the utility to which God directs His Word. You would make a good heretic because you consider your own counsel to be superior to anything you don’t comprehend in God’s economy.


3,037 posted on 08/19/2007 8:09:44 AM PDT by papagall (Atta boys are great to collect, but one dagnabit wipes out dozens of them.)
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To: papagall
how could men defeat God's sovereign plans? Is it so easy to edit out what God actually is instructing with the scriptures? You would answer that with a strong affirmative as evidenced by your many references to corruption and inferences that the texts cannot be trusted to do that which God intends. I would offer in reply that you do not actually understand what it is that God does with His words in the believer and what it is that He has designed into the Word such that even the corrupting you claim has not diminished the utility to which God directs His Word.

Amen! Great post.

"...what God does with His words in the believer..."

Precisely, amazingly, graciously so.

3,059 posted on 08/19/2007 11:39:54 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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