I was going to say that the quote of Anderson sounds similar to the Acts 28 position.
Read Anderson's "The Silence of God." You literally have to read an Acts 13 or 9 or what have you position into what are still many Acts 28 like conclusions in his "Mid-Acts."
Anderson does not appear to have been Acts 28, in the end, but had still held to many of their conclusions, as he had not gone as far as O'Hair had been able to.
O'Hair had Baker and Stam - and even the average person - challenging him all the time; both of whom had been way stronger in the understanding of some things.
O'Hair had been a very rare individual even more the rest of them in this.
He had been far more willing to concede the verses; when he finally saw them for what they were actually asserting, then, say, Stam had been. Baker had largely focused on the academia.
Each had their strengths and their weaknesses.
What one sees in all this, is men searching an searching, and seeing a great deal on the one hand, as a result.
On the other, just as often having been men having to be made aware of a thing by some external tap on their shoulder, and then just as often having needed to be challenged to at least consider it.
All this is good; because it reveals they had not simply made things up, or read things into things, as far too many have, and have continued to assert abut those great men.
While, it is "bad," if this can be called "bad," only in that it also reveals that unless they had seen some thing, or some one came along to challenge them to at least think on some new assertion, they at times remained in the dark about some things that only more years in all this and by men who would come after them, would have further time on this earth, to study out.
Bottom line though, is that we are not where we are without them.
We simply are not.
Even the greatest of those who have come after them repeatedly says as much.
But were they the last word?
No.
They could not be. There was just too much to put together, coupled with too much in the way, for their generation to have reached a place where the right, resulting gel factor would then allow the rest to fall into place.
That is the case in every science on this planet - we are still uncovering the possibilities of things that only prior uncoverings
first can
then allow the seeing of.
Larkin's Mountain View of Prophecy Principle.
Its best in all this, to have O'Hair's great love - his apparent love of "you're right; I should look into that - I must, and will.... hey, you know what, brother; you're right! Thanks for that!"
And that, when it was not, "no, I don't see that; I'll have to keep studying things out..."
You'd think someone who sings his praises to the extent that Jerry asserts he does, would follow the man's example in this.
Instead, his is an old fossil of understandings (if even that much, in his case) long ago soundly challenged and moved on from...
His problem is that he is unable to see what is in front of him because he has not put in the right kind of time that would have allowed him being where he needs to be if he is to see these things to begin with.
A caveman, thrown off by a time traveler's flicking of a lighter because the understanding in between is a long ways off from where that caveman needs to be.
The guy is like one of those World War Two Japanese fighters found out in the jungles of the Philippians somewhere, some forty years after that war, still thinking the war is still being waged.
