Sure Peter. There are plenty of statements in the Bible that are pretty unambiguous while some are amiguous. If one chooses to interpret either of them in a way that is at odds with the rest of the book, of what value is it?
I can do the same with the directions that come for assembling a piece of furniture. Those can be pretty ambiguous sometimes. Once I get half the screws put in and see that it's assembled incorrectly, most of the ambiguity goes away. :-) If one believes that the Bible is, in essence, authored by God (some do and some don't), then regardless of what you, I, or anyone else thinks, it's likely that the author meant it to be taken one way, just as when you or I make a statement. The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution. Many arguments over it's intepretation have been fought, but in reality at the time of it's writing, most of what it said was meant in just one way. ... refraining from making this a lengthy discussion on the PDML. Tom C. >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >Subject: Re: OT: Occupations? >Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:05:50 -0500 > >All things in the Bible are open to interpretation. Less unambiguous >documents than that have had wars fought over them... > >Tom C wrote: > >>> On 1/3/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Just one side point... neither purgatory or a burning hell are taught > >>>> > >> by the > >> > >>>> Bible. So yes a strange, in fact, false logic.<snip> > >>>> > >>> Indeed! > >>> > >>> The concept of purgatory is Roman Catholic dogma (perhaps other > >>> Christian sects believe in it, I don't know). What has Catholicism > >>> ever had to do with the Bible? > >>> > >>> cheers, > >>> frank, recovering catholic > >>> > >>> > >> Purgatory is inferred from one of the Deuterocanonical books (the 7 > >> books of the Old Testament written in Greek that come from the > >> Septaguint Canon of the old testament which was in common use until > >> 300AD and is sill used by Catholic and Orthodox churches, but aren't in > >> the Alexandrian Canon of the Old Testament used by most Protestant > >> Churches). The basis is biblical, but something of a stretch. > >> > >> -Adam > >> > >> > > > > I guess we can call this the Purgatory Discuss Mailing List now. :-) > > Inferrence is easy when looking at one statement or passage, but when >that > > inferrence is contradictory to other clear statements, it must be wrong. > > > > The concept of Purgatory clearly contradicts Ecclesiastes 9:5, "For the > > living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are > > conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because >the > > remembrance of them has been forgotten." > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > > > > >-- >-- > >The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. > -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
