----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:37
PM
Subject: [TruthTalk]
Re:Language-Including "The Bible"
jt wrote > If they were kept in their
place it would not be so bad, but
when they are used as a grid through which to determine
God's truth they become a problematic.
I reply > Judy, Don't you get it? When
we say, "Truth is a Person,"
we are already accepting, without reservations,
the grid established by
the very ones you see as being "problematic," the
Nicene fathers. Get it?
jt: No Bill, you are the one who does not "get
it"
I am not quoting the Nicene fathers when I say
that "Truth" is a person.
I am quoting John
14:16. The words of Jesus Himself where he says
"I Am the Truth"
They are the ones who invented the word "person"
to express what
their language could not otherwise say about the
Godhead and Jesus Christ.
That word spills down to us. We use it today to
speak wonderful truths
about the Word of God.
jt: I don't need the Nicene Fathers to spill
wonderful truths ABOUT the
Word of God down to me. I have the Word of
God and the promise
to lead me into ALL truth.
judyt
God allows the devil to raise up heretics
to make his people
study
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:35
AM
Subject: [TruthTalk]
Re:Language-Including "The Bible"
I am not suggesting that anything other than
Scripture is revelatory,
neither are there other sources of truth comparable to the Bible.
I am saying that true statements can come
from sources other than the Bible.
"Truth is a Person" is a great little
quote. The first time your hear it, it is pretty
cool, because we are conditioned to think of
truth in other categories. BUT the
word "person" is not found in the Text, nor is
there a Greek equivalent.
jt: The Greeks don't have all the answers ...
Is it a PERSON who said:
"I am the way, THE
TRUTH, and the life?"
wt: So what do we do? Do we say it is an
unbiblical idea?
jt: No...
wt: That's all
that I'm asking. More than that, I am trying
to get us to
lighten up a bit on our criticisms about
early Christianity and the language
which came from their era. Bill Taylor
jt: If they were kept in their place it would not be so bad, but
when they are used as a grid through which to determine
God's truth they become a problematic.
judyt
God allows the devil to raise up heretics
to make his people
study
Wm. Taylor wrote:
, I don't have a problem with it myself,
but I'm not all pruned up about this it-has-to-come-from-the-bible
stuff. What about you who are? Is that a true and accurate statement
concerning Jesus Christ?
Bill
Taylor
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You
lost me Bill. Where else? Science, BoM, politics, Rev.
Moon? Surely you do not mean there are other sources of truth
comparable to the Bible.
'splaine
yourself!
Terry
