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sean_m
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| Posted 1/24/2002 4:25 PM (GMT -6) |   | Here's another one of my simplistic questions. If all Bible interpreters are being led by the Holy Spirit, how are there so many different Bible interpretations? I know Doc addressed this partly in his "letters from a skeptic", but I find his explanation a little wanting (no offense, I hope). The attempt to explain differing interpretations seems insufficient, because if we were using the wrong hermaneutic, wouldn't God have given some light about it? Aren't a lot of these people who approach the bible with different hermaneutics just as "spirit filled" as open theists? Even if the people doing interpretation have a free will, wouldn't the holy spirit have had a strong effect on theological unity? It doesn't look like he has, from the different number of interpretations there are. I don't know wither this question goes better under theological Q/A, or questions about Christianity, but I"m putting it here anyway. Thank you for your patience.
Sean
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Bob Hill
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| Posted 3/5/2002 11:59 AM (GMT -6) | | Dear Sean,
The problem is our own flesh, that propensity we inherited from Adam. We are self-centered. We have our theolgy. We protect it like we started it.
The reason I come to different forums and don't just stay on my own web-site is this: I am wrong in different views I presently hold. Others challenge me on my views. I have to be able to see an answer from God's word or change what I believe.
Doc's God at War caused me to rethink my no gap theory view. I changed. That's what it's all about.
In Christ,
Bob Hill
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Bob Hill
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| Posted 4/1/2002 8:59 PM (GMT -6) | | Doc's latest book has affected me deeply. Everyone should read it.
Bob
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trosie
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| Posted 4/2/2002 1:13 AM (GMT -6) | | Bob Hillquote:
The reason I come to different forums and don't just stay on my own web-site is this: I am wrong in different views I presently hold. Others challenge me on my views. I have to be able to see an answer from God's word or change what I believe.
Yes, if we want to learn and grow it is vital to remain open to changing our minds. Had the Pharisees lived with this mindset they would have come to know God while he walked among them.
I have found that sometimes, as in the case with the open view, once I see the opposing view I wonder how I hadn't believed this in the first place. Why had I opposed it?
trosie
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