Jun 042012
Below are links to my new screencast lecture, God and his Son: the logic of the New Testament. It is based on a talk I gave in May 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. An actual video of that talk has been posted at the 21st Century Reformation website. I wasn’t reading from a script, so the versions are a bit different.
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This is a commendable attitude. Does it also mean that you have put to one side that question of the pre-existence as a person of the Logos?
MdS
I haven’t put ANY questions aside, MdS.
But remembering what a disciple really is leaves me free to listen with respect to those who have different views.
I am sympathetic to your position and as of today remain agnostic on this matter. It seems to me that applying principals of reasoning to scripture does not work. If a writer for instance was fine using double negatives 2k years ago when in fact he meant it to be taken as a single negative, then we cannot hold him to today’s standards regarding the use of negatives. What matters is, what was the writer intending. I doubt that logic will help much with this endeavor.
Mark
How do we know what a writer was intending -other than by the words he used.?
Words and logic are all we have to make sense of this world.!!
Are you suggesting that we all fall for that ‘lets call it a mystery’ bolony – and ‘all go out to lunch’?
The more one thinks about it, ‘tradition’ and human fear are the reason that traditional churches have managed to keep this trinity nonsense ‘afloat’ and as you know, people who ‘smelt the rat’ were rooted out and punished!
Yours sincerely
Abel