Steven Avery

Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God is pure:
he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Hi Riverwind,

Well there was a two-year gap from the beginning of the thread to the cute poem of distress, feebly trying to put man's mind and intellect over scripture.

However, Riverwind, remember that you fell into a similar trap of accusing those who truly accept scripture, sans the quaint poetic-philosophical mumbo-jumbo.

Perhaps as you read and learn here you can begin to understand how the unbelieving game is played a bit better .. how the false paradigms and theories of modern textual criticism and skeptic unbelief are lying together, the 'science' playing the harlot for the unbelief.

In fact Peter's view has a point when used as a wedge against the modern textual criticism fallacies that seek to 'restore' that which absolutely needs no restoration whatsoever. The deficient theories seek to dissect and dilute the text using man's intellect in a science falsely so called .. the base of disbelief is the lie that the Bible has not been inspired and preserved and needs a daily and changeable 'restoration' to ... something unknown and unknowable.

In contrast those of us who have the full scriptures in our ploughman hands simply have not need of these supposed 'restoration' struggles. And our God and His word are not at all bound by the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

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God's poetry is so pure and beautiful.
His word can be counterposed to the pretensions of men ill at ease, discomfited, squiggling, angst-ridden, seeking a way around his pure word.

Psalm 12
The words of the LORD are pure words:
as silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD,
thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

Halleluyah

Shalom,
Steven

Peter Kirby

See the other thread. People such as praxeus have no place busying themselves with biblical history, and in fact don't pretend to do so but rather profess that their sole goal and aim in the subject is to keep the "Word of God" pure and unadulterated as revelation. While the historian's aim is to do history, on the other hand.

The tangent starting with the response to this post has been split off to its own thread here