Mark Isaak <eciton@earthlinkNOSPAM.next> wrote in message news:<dv90309pi6c7ur5lf81m7fi8pv8tv1vrsv@4ax.com>...
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:55:04 +0000 (UTC), "Uncle Davey"
> <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>
> >> >> So what's the scoop, Davey. Are you God's Spokesman, or aren't you.
> >> >>
> >> > I'm not, the Bible is.
> >>
> >> And how should the Bible be best interpreted?
> >>
> >By other parts of the Bible.
>
> Have you ever noticed that the people who make that claim most
> vociferously never base their interpretation on the Bible? Instead,
> they base it on current folklore about the Bible. For example, many
> people claim the Bible as the basis for their idea that a marriage
> must be one man and one woman, even though the Bible flatly
> contradicts them. They add land animals surviving outside the Ark to
> the Flood story. They disagree with the Bible about why Adam and Eve
> were expelled from Eden. I don't agree with your approach to begin
> with, Davey, but the fact that nobody ever uses it makes it doubly
> worthless.
But that's exactly why we get all these different religions each
claiming to be biblical.
If we stick to the approach I just said, there is less of a problem.
I don't believe that people from polygamous cultures cannot be
Christian. I don't believe any land animals not in the Ark survived
the Flood. I agree with the Bible about why Adam and Eve were expelled
from Eden.
I think the appraoch is right, and just the fact that others fail to
use it doesn't mean I shouldn't try to use it.
If a chief from an African tribe becomes a Christian, should he lose
three of his four wives? No. That's the answer I give, because that's
the answer the Bible gives. Can he become a bishop in the Church? No.
Probably if I remember right he can become a deacon, but not a bishop.
But that's no problem. We don't have to be bishops, and being a leader
in the Church can carry the greater condemnation if the leader fails.
Uncle Davey
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