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To: BipolarBob

Bob, I asked you a simple yet sincere question. “Can there be more than one interpretation of the Bible?” To which you replied: “There has to be.....” Do you truly believe that the Holy Spirit leads people to different interpretations of Scripture?


17 posted on 11/10/2007 5:22:06 AM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer
Bob, I asked you a simple yet sincere question.

The implication here is that you are a sincere person and I am not. I answered your question. There is but One Holy Spirit and still many people may view the same message/event and interpret what they see/hear differently. That makes us individuals not liars. The first four books of the NT cover the same period/persons/events. Why were there four? Why are they not word for word? Is one correct and three false? The Holy Spirit leads - people interpret.

19 posted on 11/10/2007 6:27:38 AM PST by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
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To: NYer
“Can there be more than one interpretation of the Bible?” To which you replied: “There has to be.....” Do you truly believe that the Holy Spirit leads people to different interpretations of Scripture?

And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech. And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar. And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city. And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, ("Babel"... That is, confusion.) because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries. Genesis 11:1-9

24 posted on 11/10/2007 7:04:22 AM PST by GoLightly
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