I was hoping that you might say that you were convinced of a different exegesis of
those Scriptures than the traditional one.
Not exact matches
Ed, you're speaking more from a
traditional understanding of the
Scriptures than you are speaking from the
Scriptures themselves.
The problem with those holding the
traditional Free Grace position is not that they confuse the «who» with the «how» but that they arrive at their view from the
Scripture rather
than philosophy and man - made paradigms.
I happen to agree with Maher that Christians have terrible answers to these sort of moral issues in
Scripture, and it is past time we decide to have a better answer
than the
traditional trite explanations and pat answers of the past.
They have accepted
traditional interpretations rather
than reevaluating the evidence in search of an underlying consistency in Paul's position.13 Behind this willingness to allow
traditional interpretations to remain normative is the hermeneutical principle that the interpreter can separate that which is human from that which is divine in
Scripture.
Rather
than accepting as authoritative
Scripture's total witness, the interpreter uses either his subjective experience with the Christ, or his contemporary sensibility, or the church's
traditional understanding of the gospel, or perhaps some combination of these to judge what reasonably the «whole Bible» might be saying.
Catholic modernists, believing that religion is a greater mystery
than reason can comprehend, accepted the Enlightenment's intellectual indictments of religious dogma,
traditional interpretations of
scripture, and church history but held onto the church's ritual and symbols.