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What you mean is that my position is not an argument. My view (on that topic) is Scripture itself. My argument is that the text of Scripture is written in such a way that those foundational teachings are present "on the surface" (in the words written).

That's one reason I enjoy the topic. All others can do is disagree with what I don't believe or they reject the text of Scripture. I can't do that with every topic.

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Towards which verse is Mr. Collins directing his disapproval?


Seriously, though, we do need to at least try to hold Scripture as our position. Guys here have complained that I don't explain my view but just give Scripture without expounding on the verses. But that's my point - the text is the explanation.

 

No, what I believe on the topic has not been shot down (it can't because God's Word stands).

Many have argued that I should still accept what they believe about what is in the Bible, i.e., their explanation of Scripture.

But I sincerely believe that Sripture's explanation is the text itself.

 

There are facts and there are opinions.

Your opinion is my position is incorrect.
My opinion is my view us correct.

BUT it is a fact that my view is literally the text of Scripture (what is written, literally....the words on the pages).

Where we disagree is when it comes to what you feel those words may be teaching. I believe they teach what is written....literally....those words.

You believe "what is written" is given for interpretation and one must extract from those words, from biblical history, and from philosophy what is being taught.

My point stands. That doesn't mean I am correct, but it does mean that my position stands the test of Scripture where yours does not (you test what you believe Scriptute teaches with what you believe is taught in Scripture while I can simply take Scripture as written in a meaningful way).

 

Jimmy Stewart?

My challenge is for you to post something I posted of my belief (when I described my view - what is foundational rather than opinion - on this topic) that is not in Scripture. Provide a passage that I have rejected.

If you, or @AustinC , could then it'd be settled. But you can't. You both have made that abundantly clear.

That was your (Austin and Iconiclast, anyway....Im not sure about you) complaint about what I believed - that it was just Scripture without explanation.

But the reason is I do not see what man can add to Scripture to make it better. The NT and OT forms a narrative (IMHO) that needs no explanation.

 

I provided my position. You said it was insufi isn't and nothing of substance....it was "only" Scripture.

Rather than dismissing Scripture (what I had posted) as too illegitimate a position, why not discuss it?

I understand how you derive the Penal Substitution Theory of Atonement out of the Bible. But that is not proof it is correct.

You quickly dismissed God's Word ("what is written") as nothing of substance because you insist it makes no sense without expounding on Scripture. But that is subjective. "What is written" makes sense to most Christians historically, and it makes sense to me in regards to the Cross.

Why should I go beyond the text of Scripture to reaffirm what you believe is its hidden teachings when the text itself is plain enough for me?

Why do you believe God's Word is insufficient - just a "clanging gong" without human explanation and clarification?

That is the difference between our approach to theology. At one time I assumed your position, that God's Word needed to be examined and studied to discover what was really being taught beneath the text. But my approach has changed. Now I seek to understand God's Word as the revelation of God (not, as you suppose, some type of code that must be deciphered in order to figure out what is really being taught).

Where you find the text of Scripture lacking substance, I view "what is written" as suffience without the "substance" men would provide.

 

@AustinC

So as not to derail this thread I've started on of my position. You are welcome to explain exactly why you believe it lacks substance there.

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