by Hal Eaton » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:29 pm
OlDad's 'puter has been "down" (in several ways) (for several days), so I've (thankfully) missed the bulk of the discussion on this topic.
Methinks Abel entered the fray herein to shore up his chosen arguments for certainty concerning his faith. I think he needs a good shot of OlDad's references to the inability of words (their uses, sources, translations) to settle forever the basics of the 'faith."
He believes God spoke authoritatively to mankind, without ever a hitch in the process from God to man (and thence to us). Our unchanging God must have spoken Hebrew in the OT, and Greek in NT times, and English never. Most every question of theology, practice, godliness, and acceptability to God (Jehovah?) was reduced to the mechanisms of fallible, misused, abused WORDS.
The search for certainty suddenly relies on the quest for perfection - - - using imperfect words, languages, messengers, copiests, translators, interpreters, all aided, of course, by Scofiled, M. Henry, J. Falwelll, Pat Robertson, OlDad, and Abel.
Let the games continue.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. -- Thomas Paine