Featured Theology is metaphysics. Epistemology must come first.

Epistemology is SORELY needed at this point in Western culture, especially in Christendom.

 

Metaphysics has a strong hold on many “churches”

 

see word of faith, modern day Apostles and Prophets

 

Hopefully, you know what I meant

Maybe not

 

There used to be a "house of mirrors" at our local amusement park. It was sort of like a maze, where you could walk in, but then had difficulty walking out. You kept bumping into reflections of where you had been. And so you had to think about how to discern reality from its echos.

 

Discerning biblical truth is one of God Holy Spirit’s greatest gifts.

peace to you

 

Those are big time "metaphysical" churches!

 

I hold to the canon closed with inspired books, and that we have the full and complete revelation of God to us in those books, but was saying that those churches I listed are really into metaphysical theology, to the point of holding to heresy!

 

Lol, up until last night I thought I knew that back in the 40s a university sent a wildlife biologist to the Yukon to research if wolves were responsible for the decline in the caribou population from reading the book, 'Never Cry Wolf', which claimed to be true, and which I've heartily recommended the book and the movie to others over the decades. Pans out it's not true, it's fiction. Makes me feel foolish to have been mistaken/'taken' for so long, but of course there was no 'Google' to check it out back when I was a teenager and reading everything that struck my interest.

 

When we read our bibles:

1) Ask "what does it say?" (Paraphrase it in our own words)
2) Ask "what does it mean?" (Not what others claim)
3) Ask "how could I apply it to my life?" (Be doers of God's word, not just hearers)
4) Ask "how can I share it with others?" (We are Christ's ambassadors)​

 

1. The Scriptures are to be taken in the sense attached to them in the age and by the people to whom they were addressed. (Audience relevance - you're reading other people's mail)

2. Scripture cannot contradict Scripture.

3. The Scriptures are to be interpreted under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, which guidance is to be humbly and earnestly sought. - Charles Hodge

 

When we read our bibles:
1) Ask "what does it say?" (Paraphrase it in our own words)
2) Ask "what does it mean?" (Not what others claim)
3) Ask "how could I apply it to my life?" (Be doers of God's word, not just hearers)
4) Ask "how can I share it with others?" (We are Christ's ambassadors)