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From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lance wrote: > Language, like mathematics is a symbolic system > ... Do the "symbols" themselves contain the > truth(meaning) or, do they point away from > themselves to the "meaning" we all seek? Excellent point, Lance. Language is not truth, but it helps point us
to
the meaning that we all seek. Words are not precise, but they are vague symbols which point the mind towards grasping a truth that cannot fully be expressed with words. Once we understand this, we will understand the difference between being dogmatic and standing up for an important principal. We also will understand the difference between the Written Word and the Living Word. jt: For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the
spirit of man
which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no
man, but the
Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but
the spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely
given to us of God. Which things also we speak, NOT IN
THE WORDS
WHICH MAN'S WISDOM TEACHETH, but which the Holy Ghost
teacheth
comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the
natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God for they are
foolishness unto him,
neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned..
(1 Corinthians 2:11-13)
judyt
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