RE: [TruthTalk] Flesh and Spirit - Huh?

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jt: Why should David Miller or any of us for that matter care what 'contemporary evangelical scholars' that Lance considers to be godly (whatever that means) think about the book of Romans?  Truth is not determined by popular vote and God does not preside over a democracy.  Believing the scriptures does not make one a 'gnostic'.  Nor does being a neuropsychologist make Malcolm Jeeves an expert on the book of Romans or any other book of the Bible for that matter. Sir John Eccles, the neurophysiologist who won the Nobel Prize for his study of brain synapses said that the brain is a machine that any ghost can operate. We need to wake up and smell the coffee. When you subject God's Word to modern contemporary scholarship rather than the other way around you open yourself to deception. Amen, Judy.  I must agree.  Contemporary “scholars” are only as good as the Holy Spirit’s inspiration to them.  W/O that, they are a waste of time.  If they are off on a hound’s trail of humanism, why should we give credence to any of their imaginations? I would rather read one chapter by a Godly Believer, like Hannah Whitall Smith or C. S. Lewis than a library of books by those extrapolating why scripture doesn’t really mean what it really says.  I don’t mind, on the other hand, if someone like Lance finds inspiration in whatever he enjoys.  It is only when he/they insist that we are ignoramuses if we don’t real what they think is important that I take umbrage. Why is it that we don’t keep force feeding our favorite authors to them? But I could do with no other book at all other than the Bible if forced to choose. I wonder if Lance would. Izzy