[TruthTalk] Re:Wherein does the 'Truth' reside??????

[Lance Muir]

Within the 'Three-Personed God'. It is 'mediated' to us by The Spirit' through The Scriptures. Humankind (women/men) must speak of that which we come to believe (Truth).We are not the final arbiters. What indeed is 'A Proper Confidence'? On TT, I saw it (epistemological humility) best exemplified in Bill, Caroline and Debbie. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Deegan To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: June 08, 2005 17:43 Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Apocrypha We do not decide upon a Truth. You do, we don't. The Holy Spirit leads us into ALL Truth. Your doctrines are repugnant You are the personification of them and therefore have not come to a settling of what is and what aint! The Bible decides upon a Truth, we align ourselves to it. You align to your own ideas. You have no final authority, other than yourself. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When we decide upon a "truth,"  finalize that in our mind and even institutionalize the concept, we close the door to further examination.   With that door closed,  we are shut off from amending our point of view.  We stop growing and declare to all who will listen,  "I have arrived by the grace of God, of course."   On the occasion that we institutionalize the matter,  we close the door for re-examination to all others  --  a kind of excathedra statement.   The evangelical church has done this with her doctrine of "inspiration."   It has so formalized the teaching as to make it even dangerous to openingly disuss other possiblities to "verbal and plenary."   A disciple, new to the faith of the Evangelicals,  must quickly learn what can be questioned and what cannot if he/she is to remain within the fellowship.    Perhaps this is true in the high church as well  --  I do not know.     JD           -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Apocrypha JD Paul is surely NOT against knowing but knowing that is final   So you say. Then I can never really know if what you are saying even now is true.   Why are you always looking to talk people out of knowing the truth? Do you want them to end up like you, questioning everything? Or so you can then become the one (the authority) to point them in to the way right behind you? Prov 22 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee   Maybe that is why you struggle with addictions. JN 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has occurred to me that if we speak and write with the view in mind that we at the beginning of another day of learning,  our hearts and minds will be more open to what God has instore.  Perhaps our doctrinal statements should not be "as if written n stone.'   But reflective of the growth that will begin again with the start of a new day.    We would do less fighting and more growing.    That is what I Cor 8:1-3 is saying,   ----   is it not?  Paul is surely NOT against knowing but knowing that is final, a closed systems of knowledge.     Jd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com