As Jimmy Durante used to say:"Everybody wants to
get into the act." And, so we should but, with more epistemological
humility.
"Anyone who is an interpreter
of any text interprets that text from some sort of ideational
perspective.Everybody stands somewhere. There's no one who can stand in a
neutral objective point in interpreting texts. To
pretend so is simply a pernicious fiction." Richard B. Hayes - Public Lecture
- New Zealand - 2004)
jt: So Jimmy Durante is your "fount of
wisdom" Lance? (you have quoted him numerous times) and
ALL scripture is FOR private
interpretation IYO? I say that one who approaches God's Word humbly and
without
a preconceived epistemology to protect is
not driven to interpret anything and is open to the Spirit of
Truth.
We read the text of Scripture differently and diversely. We read the texts of one
another similarly. Other that saying::
'you are of your father, the devil', how are we
to account for and insofar as is possible, rectify this?
jt: Not everyone
on TT does this Lance, I for one don't always write AMEN when I agree, I
just rejoice that a brother or sister is posting Truth in balance and in
context (there are those two words again) I say we
should just tell it like it is. There is a Christ and an
anti-Christ (in place of); a spirit of truth and a spirit of error. God
is not confused nor does He contradict Himself - Truth will stand
when all else fails.
Among those gifted and discerning participants
dwelling hereon, might some suggest a way forward other that requesting that
one of the now thoroughly polarized camps simply 'take a walk' leaving the
other to live in harmony and agreement?
jt: I say - let's wait and see.
Eventually His angels will gather the "tares" out of the Kingdom and we will
have
our answer without the need to speculate (of course it will be too
late for those on the wrong side) and in the meantime we can learn how to
love the unlovely while we wait for Jesus to bring it all together.
