[bit.listserv.christia] point of view bashing

COSMO@TRIUMFER (01/13/90)

Greetings,

We're watching something that's plauged mankind since they bit the apple...
idiology bashing.  Wars have been fought, families split, mariages destroyed,
all in the name of "my interpretation's better than yours".

The fact that the passage needs to be interpreted should say something,
namely that its meaning is not clear to us humans with our limitied
perceptions.

And yes, the Book does seem to be full of contradictory passages, such that
if people choose to observe one, while others choose to adhere to another,
you get two groups both claiming to be Christian, yet with radically different
points of view.

Therefore, if you're faced with these kinds of disputes and contradictions,
isn't it sensible to go strait to the Lord Himself and ask Him what's going
on?

This works for me.  I've received insights to contradictory passages,
sometimes as pictures (when I lack the vocabulary for the concept to be
transmitted in words, or if it's a non-analytic concept, since language
can only communicate analytic concepts), and sometimes I get answers
which are just for me (because of the idiosyncracies of my own state
of mind) which would be meaningless or confusing to others.

The Book says that all wisom and insights come from the Lord.

Peace
David