"No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."
Please read the verses first, and observe how accurate the Bible remains to this day, yea and will remain, in uncovering the nature of men and predicting their conversation, even believers.
1Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
1Corinthians 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
1Co 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
1Co 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
1Co 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual
The following are genuine, random excerpts from Christian blogs. I suggest you ready an Oxford English Dictionary (unabridged), a dictionary of philosophy, an encyclopedia of theology, oh and you might need a Bible, but am not sure about that one.
"a simple act of punctilliar faith in Jesus Christ alone"
Punctilliar folks, punctilliar. How simpler can it get?
"an excellent refutation of the inferential claim of a pretribulation secret rapture. Consider historic premillennialism; it's a more tenable eschatological framework than the dispensational variety"
He's saying: consider taking deciphering courses in non-linear cryptography.
"Regenerate man has a free will that is regulated by two opposing capacities within his ontological being"
I have an ontological being. At least he's logical.
"the context of parabolic structures, and as such, are not to be taken literally, but the accounts within the metaphorical contructs correspond to spiritual truths."
This statement exhibits parables and metaphores and is not to be taken literally.
"What is striking in all of these is not just the typological reference but the nature of the type's realization. In each case there is no mere parallel being drawn: there is an eschatological transcendence ... this in keeping with the Matthean "eschatological transcendence" pattern noted previously, as well as the "Christological ego" in the antitheses themselves"
I wonder if Matthew and Christ knew that.
"In the fifth antithesis (vv.38-39) Jesus proceeds from the lex talionis to non-resistance."
We now know what Jesus was doing from 12 to 30. He was taking courses in Latin in order to rise to the level of modern scholars.
"The verbs "destroy" and "fulfill" (katalusai, plerosai) are both telic, or purpose, infinitives."
They failed to tell you that these verbs also rime.
"The parenetic function of the law and prophets anticipated a "fulfilling" "
To activate the parenetic function, please press simultanesouly ctrl-alt-shit-f11-f3-esc.
"suggests that "these least commandments" is a proleptic reference not to Moses' law but to Jesus' "Nova Lex" "
Not to worry; I can explain "proleptic". It means "for, in agreement with, advocating that which is leptic".
"A counterfactual possibility, not a live possibility. If God exhaustively revealed his plan for the world, then that would set up the conditions for its non-fulfillment. But, of course, that contrary-to-fact condition is not in the cards."
King, Queen, Jack, 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-As. He's right, it ain't in the cards. What a Joker.
"And since infallible certainty can ' t be mediated by rational or evidentiary means, it must be that it is gifted to the elect by God directly. Yes? If in answer to this, one posits a kind of synergistic relationship between the Holy Spirit 's witness and our rational means of inquiry"
That's saying that you can't be sure this same statement is true, because it is mediated by your rational or evidentiary means. As to what the latter are, you'll have to ask your ontological being, if you have one.
"And the way I prove it may take a very different form than the process of learning. There ' s a logical order and a pedagogical order.There ' s the way in which things are metaphysically interconnected, and then there ' s the way in which we discover them."
I'm still working on that one. What came first, the physical or the metaphysical? And how did we discover the difference between the logical and the pedgogical? Logically or pedagogically? Where are Plato and Aristotle when you need ' em?!
"Probability is a relative concept. Probable relative to what is possible, which is, in turn, relative to what is actual."
which in turn is relative to probability, which is relative to what is possible, which is relative to what is actual which is relative to what is probable which is relative to what is possible which is relative to what is actual...
"In other words, the alternative to predestinarian determinism is fatalistic determinism."
Aren't you glad he clarified that one?
"There is also a fatalistic quality to Molinism. It endows the agent a libertarian freewill. But the agent has no control over what possible world is instantiated.Given a choice, he ' d prefer to be instantiated in a world where he goes to heaven rather than hell."
Molinism: the philosophy of H.A. Molin whose adherents are generally undercover agents of the libertarian persuasion. The philosophy is peculiar in its preference of heaven over hell while admitting neither.
"You are evoking categories from Reformed theology, radically redefining them, and then attempting to generate a point of tension. But if you redefine the key terms, then it ceases to be an internal critique. The tension is not generated by the inner logic of Calvinism, but by your semantic subterfuge"
To properly appreciate the gist of the rebuttal, one must be versed in Deformed theology and the cartoon Calvin and Hobbes.
"John was arguing reductio ad absurudum"
Reduction ad absurdum is an argumentative technique which floods the opponent with such a barrage of verbiage that it "reduces him to absurdity."
Job 12:2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
There is always the danger to show off with one's command of techinical terms.
However, it is important to be precise in one's terms. That is why the Bible uses such technical terms as justification and propitiation.
Every Blessing in Christ
Matthew
Praise God for the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:12 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
As you know, I'm reading Larkin's "Rightly dividing the word", which goes through Bible doctrines that every believer should know. It's a lot easier and SIMPLER to read than what I had thought. That's the way I like it - simple. I like to understand what I am reading.
Good post.