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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/3/2002 1:43 PM (GMT -6) |   | Tom and Meph are having a great conversation. And my style is to come in from 90-degrees. Maybe better put it here.
Our guest SS teacher was a prof. from Wheaton. He likes C.S. Lewis. I don't know if this was an actual illustration from Lewis or not--could have been--but I think that the idea might have been.
If you do an EXEGESIS of a bullet (Winchester 38 special) you get lots of facts. But it does not give you any indication whether you can hit a target with it or not. You need more.
You need to not only know the bullet, but also the target (distance, moving/stationary, size...), and you need to know the gun (sites off to the left, kicks high, squeeze smoothly...).
And in his handouts (profs always have handouts) he quoted George MacDonald's character in Lewis' "Great Divorce": "Ye cannot know eternal reality by definition".
My opinion (Yes I have them/) is that we can't put the text through crime-lab diagnostics. That only exegetes the bullet. | | Back to Top | | |
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