JD wrote: > I am asking you to take a few days, write > down your rules for understanding the message, > and then, pas that along to me and the others. > I am sure it would be beneficial.
I don't need a few days, JD. I received the principles of understanding Scripture many years ago, but I don't share them all at once. I give them a piece at a time to those who have ears to hear. The real meat of it is spoken only among those who are perfect. Do you qualify? Here is one cornerstone for a proper hermeneutic. Let's see what you do with it. 1 Corinthians 2:12-13 (12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. JD wrote: > Read Ps 7 -- especially the first half and compare > it to the words of Ps 51:1ff. With these two psalms, > we have a picture of David growing up. > He moves from arrogance to humility. > He moves from ritual obedience to contrition and brokenness. Oh, Great! You think we have a picture of David growing up by the fact that David commits adultery? Now, after committing adultery, David is mature and GROWN UP! Your understanding is so backward from a spiritual perspective that it is pitiful. Men do not mature by committing sin and becoming broken in their heart as the result of their sin! Maybe I should go out and commit adultery now so that I will lose all my arrogance and become grown up like David of the Bible. Is that what you are teaching me? Man, all this time I was thinking that sin was the problem and avoiding it like the plague, but now thanks to John I have learned that adultery causes one to become mature and grown up, and allows God to truly inspire my words. How blind I have been! I guess I had better go out and sin now. Then John will accept me as a mature and contrite man of God. JD wrote: > Some of the psalms are sourced from man If this idea were true, which psalm would more likely be sourced from man and which from God? Do we expect the psalm of a mighty man of valor who has fallen into adultery to be sourced from God, or would it be more likely that the psalm written prior to his fall into sin would be sourced from God? The real problem with your thinking here is that you only believe that some of the Bible is sourced from God, so one must weed out the inspired psalms from the uninspired psalms. This is a dangerous, cult-like position to be in. I think I prefer the Mormon position of "we believe the Bible as far as it is translated correctly" over your viewpoint of Biblical inspiration, and that is not saying much. :-) Peace be with you. David Miller. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
