Rules of Biblical Interpretation

[TCGreek]

HP: This is not about ‘going anywhere, it is about where one has been in the post and the knowledge and light that one must of necessity bring to the advent of the hearing of the Gospel. The Scripture you bring to the table in no wise addresses the knowledge God grants to every man intuitively, that has nothing to do directly with the gospel message in the least, yet is necessary light for all to have antecedent to the gospel.

1. Only Scripture can make a person wise for salvation (2 Tim 3:15).

2. General knowledge of God is what it is, general knowledge of God.

Truth should be consistent with truth. God does not reveal to us truth in Scripture that refutes intuitive truths, such as principles of justice, that are revealed to all moral agents intuitively by God. The point is that when we come to Scripture and our interpetation runs counter to the intuitve truths God grants to man, we can assure ourselves that we have misinterpreted Scripture. We have either erred as theologians or philosophers. To deny the validity of intuitive truths, such as truths concrning justice, is paramount to denying ones own personal physical existence. It obviously can be done but to the peril of truth.


3. All the truth I need to make me wise for salvation and to live the sanctified life is found in sacred Scripture (2 Tim 3:15-17).

4. But if I need truth about a tumor in my body I go to the physician. If I need truth about outer space I go to the astronaut and so on.

You are toying with the truth of this passage, trying to make it say something it does not. There is a clear distinction between light of salvation and light to become ‘complete in Christ.’ There is necessary intuitive light granted to all moral agents subsequent to even hearing the first mention of the gospel, without which man could not understand the slight moral truth of the cure for our sinful intents and subsequent actions that salvation provides. Ro 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another

5. See my above posts.

Of a truth, God has not limited the truth of Himself or the truths necessary for moral agency, to those who have heard the gospel or read Scripture.

6. Scripture testifies to the gospel of Jesus Christ (2 Cor 4:2-7; 2 Tim 3:15-17).

 

[Heavenly Pilgrim]

TCGreek, I believe we have both stated our positions on the manner about as well as we can. I will leave the reader to settle the issue in his or her own mind.