Please clarify: Why would this statement apply only to Isreal at the times? As far as the issue of trade guilds, you are taking a really suggesting here that seemingly straitforward comments must be analyzed in the context of the times. Does that mean anything and everything said is really only applying to the times?
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Waterrock |
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Posts: 1168 01/05/06 23:17:41 |
Whatchoo ~
WTB: "Why would this statement apply only to Isreal at the times?" Because that's who the Law of Moses was given to. WTB: "As far as the issue of trade guilds, you are taking a really suggesting here that seemingly straitforward comments must be analyzed in the context of the times." Allow me to re-phrase: "As far as the issue of trade guilds, you are suggesting that seemingly straightforward comments must be analyzed in the context of the times." Definitely. Because the assumption that they are so straightforward that a reader's first impression must be accurate is *reckless.* The background of Corinth is not, and should not be expected to be, completely straightforward. WTB: "Does that mean anything and everything said is really only applying to the times?" No. Teachings can be applied on different levels including levels which are historically unrelated to the initial setting. For instance, Jesus denounced some religious leaders for making "large phylacteries." Not many Christians wear phylacteries nowadays, but the principle expressed in Jesus' teachings can nevertheless be perceived and applied. Yours in Christ, Waterrock |
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gatogreensleeves |
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Posts: 5 06/14/06 13:44:25 |
Watterock, how can you possibly suggest any dilution of the utterly clear message of 2 Cor. 6:14? Paul makes a very broad universal admonition of segregation here (light and dark!)- nothing as micro- specific as you imply.
So... this is yet another irrelevant verse (just like Mosaic Law... well, it's all a "salad bar" as someone effectively put it). Funny how all the contradictory and/or distasteful verses are supposedly anachronistic misinterpretations. How many "comforting" verses are misinterpreted anachronistically? Why in the world are Paul's letters (and the OT- any of it really, but especially Paul's letters) considered God's word if there is so much anachronistic vulnerability? God couldn't clearly write down His will (don't say it's clear- remember all of the differing Christian sects and doctrine changes over time) Himself like He did in Exod. 31:18 with His finger, in a durable fashion and in an unambiguous language that supercedes misinterpretation due to cultural, linguistic, and temporal differences? Is that too much to expect??!!! Clearly communicating His will is His goal, RIGHT? And He's omniscient and omnipotent, right???? |
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