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Originally posted by REIKI
The problem is that not everyone takes the time to analyze scriptures for themselves, like you, thus "liberal theology" in my opinion is not liberal at all, but a more accurate interpretation of Bible scripture. How else but "intellectually" should one 'discern' scripture. There are people who "discern" a whole lot of stuff in the church, and the problem is that alot of that "discernment" has nothing to do with a consensus interpretation of scripture and everything to do with personal opinion.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. God bless you!!!
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Originally posted by REIKI
We are human, whether you like it or not, and falable. Therefore no human has the corner market on ultimate, undebatable truth. If I am made in the image of God, how am I (not I specifically, but generally speaking) corruptable for "intellectualizing" the Bible? It comes back to the same old round and round arguement that will never be settled because if there were an ultimate undebatable truth, everyone would accept it, right? Truth is relative in my opinion, but I comprehend your point.
Peace. [/B]
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Good point here also. Consider this, Is Truth relative, or our grasp or understanding of it? We are human, fallable, and subject to time, space, culture, history, environment, etc. that all characterize our understanding or interpretation of scripture. Our humaness also gives us "finiteness"-that means we cannot comprehend everything that God is -"infiniteness". So our grasp at Truth has to be checked, not by absoluteness, or the final word of objective truth, because we cannot achieve that, but in the way that our understandings of Truth help us in the ongoing process of human self definition and human self determination. Cornell West put it best in his book
Prophesy Deliverance :
"Jesus Christ is literally the Truth, the Truth which cannot be intellectually reified but rather existentially appropriated by
finite human beings with urgent needs and pressing problems"
In other words, we can only grasp at all the Truth Christ is, because of our falleness. Our gauge for the effectiveness of our "strivings" or "grasps" has to be if those things we read and interepret from scripture serve a positive purpose in making us better human beings, made "in the image of God"(cf. Genesis 1:24). In this sense, a critical understanding of not only scripture, but human nature, politics, history, and art and how they affect our interpretation of scripture are all important as to ordering our lives for Christ.
Blackwatch!!!!!!