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originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: Compendium
That's just taking things to the opposite extreme, avoiding the ditch on one side of the road and falling into the ditch on the opposite side.
As said before, the basic principle needs to be "what did the original author want to say?"
originally posted by: TTU77
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: Compendium
That's just taking things to the opposite extreme, avoiding the ditch on one side of the road and falling into the ditch on the opposite side.
As said before, the basic principle needs to be "what did the original author want to say?"
Precisely, the bible was written for us, but not to us. It was written directly for the people of the age. It needed to be understood directly in the age it was written. The worldview of that audience is very different than the worldview we live in and much of the context is lost and taken for granted by the intended audience of that age. For instance, did you know, the major worldview back then was that the entire world was subdived and ruled by other bene elohim after the fall of babel? Only Israel remained in God's posession until the resurrection of Christ, which essentially undid what happened at the tower of babel. The prince of the world is no longer Satan at that point because he cleansed sin by grace by bestowing his righteousness on us, through our belief and faith, we are made righteous, and not by law of moses, which was created to essentially show the futulity of trying to be rightouess by works alone, necissitating the need of a savior, as Jesus said, not one is holy, not one seeks God, but I digress.
Alas, a good video of the worldview of the time the bible was written can be found here, a very interesting and eye opening perspective. Michael Heiser is a genious. Check out his book supernatural, mind blowing.