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Oh thank you so very much, dearest sister in Christ, for your beautifully illuminating essay-post!

Now that's a strawman! I am not trying to muzzle free thought and speech. But I do notice the futility of a "debate" between Christians, who believe the Holy Bible is the Word of God, and a Derrida-style literary deconstructionist who evidently feels the Author of the piece is irrelevant to understanding what the text means. You say yourself you "don't know what God is." Your deconstructionist approach to textual criticism ensures you will never find out.

Perhaps your correspondents do not realize that you and they aren't even on the same page when it comes to approaching Holy Scripture.

Indeed.

Oh, thank you so very much for your kind words, dearest sister in Christ!

I have a postscript to my last, as follows:

(1) "Reality is no finished systems but a structure in process of transformation." That observation is from Voegelin's editor and friend, Ellis Sandoz, in the introduction to the work I cited in my last. That transformation, to my mind, is the movement from the Alpha to the Omega.... It proceeds according to the Logos of God, His spoken Word in the Beginning.... Thus, "there is no such thing as merely "natural" reason; rather there is always the divine–human encounter productive of illuminating truth or of deforming untruth, as a man's readiness and response may determine. Why truth does not always prevail remains a mystery." I gather the readiness and response business has something to do with "eyes and ears".... A man who deliberately chooses to shut his eyes, and deliberately stuffs up his ears so that he cannot hear, probably has something to do with that "mystery." Or so it seems to me....

(2) "....Chistianity is not concerned with belief in a literary text, but with man's confrontation with God through faith." [Voegelin, "The German University and German Society," op. cit., p. 11.]

Evidently our brother kosta rejects such understandings. If I'm wrong about this, he can correct me.

Thank you so much for writing!