Charles Perry Locke wrote:
Debbie,
I think the examples that you have given DO have an objective reality, and that we have been given a limited view of these through the scriptures. In these cases of "abstract reality", there is an absolute reality, i.e., something really happened that we call the "atonement", and there really was (and is) a "covenant", even though we were not present when the atonement took place, or when the covenant was sealed with Christ's blood.
We are given a limited view of the atonement and covenant via the scriptures. Our limited view of the objective reality is in the word pictures painted for us in the scrptures. The reality of it to us depends on whether we trust the scriptures to be acurate. This is one reason for the very good argument that the scriptures are infallable. If we allow them to be fallable, then we lose our limited objective view of the reality of the cross and the covenant. Once we allow one fact in the Bible to be false, it casts doubt on the whole Bible, and we switch from the objective reality of the scriptures to the subjective reality of our own whims and desires.
Some will argue that they get an additional view of things via direct personal revelation. I trust that this is true in the case of the prophets in the Bible, but I have never received any additional, supernatural understanding or interpretation of the scriptures beyond what is written on the pages of my Bible. So, I must assume that the Bible contains enough information for me to know what God intended for me to know, and that it is sufficient for salvation, and knowing God's will in my life.
Perry
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Very well explained, Perry. Concise, logical, very much the way most of us think, ot at least, very much the way I think.
Terry
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