Ask Mr. Religion
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GM, we have had several lengthy back and fourths in the past. In not a single one of these, wherein I did the heavy lifting, were you moved to do the same. Rather, your responses were but the usual, "too many words", "cannot understand you", "I disagree" "Calvinists!" and similarly so.
Telling me about how sincere you are about important matters is no substitute for demonstrating the same when we are actually in direct dialog. I won't take the time to fish them out to prove my point. You know this to be the case. And by all means, please point me to what you consider your best example at actual interpretative effort. I will be happy to read it and hope to be edified by it.
In fact, one need only look to the more recent lament over Jerusalem passage by which you appealed as a libertarian free will teaching passage. Following my own provided interpretation, when others took issue with your assertion, actually seeing even a wee bit of merit in my provided interpretation of the same passage, what did you do? Defend your interpretation in substance? No. You simply waved those that differ with you off with a casual you have your opinion, I have mine equivalent. It is almost as if anyone that even hints that maybe, even in the slightest sense, that AMR may be on to something, is beyond your willingness to concede or even contemplate.
There is but one correct interpretation of any passage of Scripture. That correct interpretation is what the writer of that passage, superintended by the Holy Spirit, meant when he wrote it with full knowledge of the audience and the circumstances of whom he was speaking and/or writing. If we are unwilling to get inside the "head and heart" of these writers, stepping into their shoes, if you will, there is little hope in coming to a fuller understanding of their inspired words.
We all cannot have differing views and claim we each have the correct view about this or that passage of Scripture. Our differences are but one of the means used by God through which the truth emerges: so says Scripture. If no one is willing to defend their opinions, merely proof texting without context, no truth will be brought to the light.
AMR
