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REIKI
Thanks for your thoughts and I agree with you wholeheartedly. There are many passages, scriptures, and biblical doctrines that require serious intellectual debate and understanding. Too many unlearned preachers simply spout what they read without a deeper understanding.
I also agree with you Blackwatch in that we must understand time and place, who was speaking, what point were they trying to make, who was the audience, what were the socio-political, religious ethos of the time. The parables of Jesus summons the intellect and are open to interpretation that requires true discernment. The Book of Hebrews is a theological wonder that requires much knowledge and deep understanding. The Song of Solomon is an allegorical piece of literature. How is that to be interpreted?
I support the intellectual understanding of the Bible. What I vehemently disagree with is politicizing and socializing the Word to fit individual agendas, be they womanist, feminist, prosperity, Jehovah Witness, Catholic, and Mormon. They all have corrupted the word of God through false and flawed supposed "intellectual" interpretations. Just as Osama Bin Laden, the N.O.I, and 5 Percenters have corrupted Islam through false interpretation, my point is to be on guard when I hear people DELIBERATELY go against sound theology and undeniable scripture for their own personal aggrandizement. Anyone who will accept Tupacs and Biggie's lyrics as Gospel and then challenge the Word of God is a herectic and is playing an intellectual shell game.
Finally, many things in the Bible offer intellectual leeway, but other doctrines are crystal clear and concrete and only a political opportunist would challenge them, rewrite them, and dismiss them.
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