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To: Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; irishtenor; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; savedbygrace
Here you say that God's truth is not imperfect. That must be because He never gave it to the writers of the scriptures. I mean, consider how much of the Bible you accept

You are twisting what I wrote, which was: "It's not God's truth that is imperfect; it's our perception that is." God only reveals truth. We receive His revelation in an imperfect manner. That's all I meant. So, as far as the Bible is concerned, other than the eyewitness accounts of Christ (which are not revelations), the Bible contains God's truth but as understood and expressed through imperfect human capacity.

I accept all of the Bible (except for the Gospels) as God's revealed truth embedded in imperfect human perceptions.

Even from the Gospels we learn that the Apostles didn't understand fully who Christ was and earlier I mentioned their misunderstanding of the time of His second coming. So, imperfect perceptions and interpretations are the norm rather than an exception. Part of Jesus' ministry was to show exactly that to the Jews.

6,334 posted on 06/28/2008 8:36:36 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; irishtenor; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock
I accept all of the Bible (except for the Gospels) as God's revealed truth embedded in imperfect human perceptions.

That makes everything in the Bible basically wrong (and useless) except for the Gospels. However, you just told me that Joseph's dream was bogus and that's in the Gospels.

Even from the Gospels we learn that the Apostles didn't understand fully who Christ was and earlier I mentioned their misunderstanding of the time of His second coming. So, imperfect perceptions and interpretations are the norm rather than an exception.

I thought you were saying that these misperceptions were actually BUILT INTO the scriptures. Therefore, if we follow the text we are led astray, except for parts of the Gospels. That reduces the reliable Bible to a few pages, and of course for you whatever fallible men wrote later on that you like.

6,355 posted on 07/01/2008 8:59:09 PM 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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