Author	Thread: Literal or Special Language?
teach_ib View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 4 Aug, 2012 07:07 PM Many posts on a variety of threads indicate that we need to read more into words in the Bible...that words like 'all', "every", "world", etc have deeper meanings than what even English majors or Hebrew/Greek experts understand the words to mean. Do you believe the Word of God requires a 'higher level of knowledge' to understand it? "If God be the originator of language and if the chief purpose of originating it was to convey His message to humanity, then it must follow that He, being all-wise and all-loving, originated sufficient language to convey all that was in His heart to tell mankind.� Furthermore, it must also follow that He would use language and expect people to understand it in its literal, normal, and plain sense.� The Scriptures, then, cannot be regarded as an illustration of some special use of language so that in the interpretation of these Scriptures some deeper meaning of the words must be sought."� [Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism (Chicago: Moody Press, 1995), 81.] Post Reply
teach_ib View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 08:21 PM I'm still waiting for your question on reformed theology. What question do you wish for me to answer? Post Reply
View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 08:28 PM Diversion Is a whaaaack in order Bob? Post Reply
teach_ib View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 08:31 PM Not a diversion unless you consider Bob asking for a response to a question he didn't include a diversion. Post Reply
View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 08:35 PM I'm aware of this. My point being you were soundly refuted on your others points. Anybody reading this thread could see it. Yet you did not admit it. Idk, maybe I shouldn't care but I take issue with that. Your double standard was clearly put on display and then we heard nothing more from you about it. Maybe for me this was like the end of a relationship and I was looking for closure. You didn't provide it and that's why I'm sulking. Post Reply
View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 09:07 PM Brother, She has been soundly refuted time and time and time again. Yet, she persists. The problem is she laid her own foundation She didn't have the rock that was necessary but she was able to bind enough sand together to give the appearance that it was a rock. If it had the appearance of rock very few could question her. She relies on this sandy foundation each day as she continues to build her own house. To further complicate matters, she has no idea what her house is supposed to look like when it is finished. However, it matters little to her because she has her own ideas about what she wants it to look like and nobody is going to tell her otherwise. Sadly,she is not even a carpenter but she is too foolish to understand that this is an essential skill needed for building a house. Most importantly though is the truth that has now come to her. "The rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon her house. And guess what - if fell and great was the fall. Post Reply
teach_ib View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 09:08 PM For God to say, "I hate Esau" means "I have not chosen Esau." To say, "I love Jacob" means "I have chosen Jacob and my promises and blessings will be fulfilled in him and in his seed after him." God chose the younger (Jacob) and He did not choose the older (Esau) to receive the blessings and the promises. ***** God chose Jacob to be the lineage for Christ... Malachi 1:2�I have loved you, saith the Lord.�Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?�Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord:�yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I hated Esau,�and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Luke 14:26�If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Post Reply
teach_ib View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 09:11 PM Bob, want question do you want me to answer on reformed theology? You brought this up and yet you won't post the question. Post Reply
View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 09:16 PM "Dispensationalism has no more been refuted than reformed theology has been proven." Here is where YOU brought reformed theology into the discussion - not me. Facts are a stubborn thing as I have told you before. Post Reply
teach_ib View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 09:33 PM Bob you stated: "I will offer to you the same challenge as P.J. and Jude with respect to "reformed theology." Why don't you all get together and collaborate on an answer. " I am waiting on the challenge...what is your question? You are the one who is putting reformed theology above all other beliefs...if you provide. Your challenge, I will address it. I'm not going to try to guess what you want answered. Post Reply
View Profile History	Literal or Special Language? Posted : 5 Aug, 2012 09:36 PM "You are the one who is putting reformed theology above all other beliefs." Show it and prove it. Post Reply

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