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Why, you don't grant the same to God Himself.
See, if I had feelings that would have hurt them. Do you have a position on the OP, or did you just drop by to try your hand at slander?
I won't engage anyone who would refer to that as slander.
That was a cheap shot.Why, you don't grant the same to God Himself.
You called me an evangelical. I would appreciate you not tarnishing my good reputation.
LOL! My wording could have been better, I suppose.
I actually didn't call you an Evangelical. I meant, that you had something in common with Evangelicals, in that you think that everything but "going to Heaven" is superfluous.
Thanks for stopping by. Always so nice when you visit.I won't engage anyone who would refer to that as slander.
I don't understand how you got that from the OP.
I don't understand how you don't understand how I got that from the OP.
Well, then we have mutual misunderstanding. I'm cool with that.
You could take an alternate course and try to correct my misunderstanding.
The OP was my attempt (as feeble as it might be) to show that the efficaciousness of Christ's work is not dependent on the scriptures being 100% historically accurate. They are thought experiments aimed at showing a flaw in the idea of biblical inerrantism. Do they work? I'm less confident than when I wrote the OP for reasons mentioned in the thread.
Why? Which pages of the Bible would you like to rip out?
I think you're still missing the point. It's not about particular passages, it's about the function of the scriptures and their relation to the gospel, or better, the salvific work of Christ. The scriptures are a means to an end.
I am after the point underneath the point. That's the only thing worth discussing here. What's your motivation for the post?
My motivation is that the scriptures be treated appropriately and not as an idol. When they are treated as perfect, they are treated as an end and not a means. The scriptures are not God. Not everything we find in them is in line with what we know in Jesus Christ.
Do you consider the God of the OT a different God of the NT?
Yes our sensibilities today would not to call for children to be mauled by bears.
So do our sensibilities today change what happened thousands of years ago, or do we just discard the Scriptures for not meeting our post modern sensibilities?
Just wait until Christ's return when the blood will run in the streets, waist deep.
Don’t you see the different situations that the context brings to light? Elisha was facing a wicked generation. To the point even the children he encountered were speaking blasphemies to Elisha. These young lads or young boys obviously were not small children. They knew the ministry of Elijah especially how he defeated the prophets of Baal which made him undesirable number 1 with King Ahab and the kingdom of Israel.No, that's my point. Jesus says suffer the little children come to me, and also blasphemy against him is a forgivable sin. Elisha (who was a type of Jesus) apparently curses the children without mercy.
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