Syntax=Private interpretation while Dogma=Community of believers IMO.  TT
abounds with the former with David Miller at the 'head of the class'.


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From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: January 17, 2005 00:45
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Good News!


> Excellent post, Debbie, but please do reconsider some of your syntax to
line
> up with Biblical language.
>
> For example, you wrote:
> > The apostles Paul and James (to go back to a previous post)
> > ultimately believed in the same Good News, but in emphasizing
> > different things they didn't say the same thing; they said
> > complementary things.
>
> Based upon 1 Cor. 1:10 and Acts 15 and Acts 21, I would say that Paul and
> James did speak the same thing.  They had the same mind and were in unity
of
> speech.  In the context of what you are saying above, I agree with you,
but
> at the same time I am concerned that using the syntax of "they didn't say
> the same thing" cuts across the syntax of Scripture.  My concern is that
> people will use what you are saying to justify actual disagreements that
are
> not complementary.  In other words, they will be open to the relativism of
> our modern educational system which allows people to believe whatever they
> want.  The assumption is that whatever they believe will fit in and be
> relevant in some way.  It does not even have to be something that actually
> fits somewhere.
>
> It is important for us to see how our perspectives, when they are accurate
> of the truth, actually fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.  If they do fit
> together in complementary fashion, then we see the whole, and we see how
we
> have the same mind and how we do speak the same things.  In fact, if
someone
> were to contradict James, Paul would probably speak up for him and justify
> his teachings.  Likewise with James.  When Jews in Jerusalem maligned Paul
> and misrepresented him, James would speak up for him (hence the situation
in
> Acts 21).
>
> Debbie wrote:
> > They certainly don't sound the same;
>
> They don't sound the same when taken out of context and put in a different
> context.  They do sound the same when they are fit together in a whole and
> understood in relationship to one another.
>
> Debbie wrote:
> > We can't use sameness as a necessary
> > condition of rightness. To me that seems
> > a scary direction to move in.
>
> Excellent point.  This distinguishes dogma from analysis.  Much of
> Christianity has missed it in relying upon dogma and using sameness as a
> condition of rightness.  Very excellent point.
>
> Peace be with you.
> David Miller.
>
>
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