funinspace

The bolded part I added. As seen here and the previous thread on contradictions, one can see that the Xians who demand a innerrant canon find all sorts of ways to explain the contradictions away. Whether it's Math 3 14's, or Jesus' lineage, or the disparate presentations of the risen Christ by the gospels, or a slew of others obvious contradictory passages, the true believer usually finds a way to satisfy their own mind on how it's all still coherent. So I find internal contradictions to also be relatively fruitless. They are willing to quibble on these type of passages. And still they work very hard to ignore the grand miracles and their timelines. Must be fear of the truth, as far as I can tell :devil3:

DramaQ

This one is just for fun, Inqy. Well… and also so that hopefully you can be satisfied and thus give this one a rest (after all, it’s not really a biblical contradiction, is it?):

An “example of what Paul said that REQUIRES a current interpretation according to 2004�

How about:

How do we interpret that for 2004? (I’m sure "W" believes it. Is it true for other country's leaders?). I would especially have liked to know how you felt about this between 1992 and 2000!

I’m foreseeing something about “authorities� referring to Heavenly or religious ones. But it sure seems to me that “governing authorities� refers to the government, especially given 13:6.

dq

inquisitive01

So why not attempt interpreting it (in your own words) for 2004, then post back with your results? I know that I, for one, am interested in what your results will be.

DramaQ

Because, quite frankly, I couldn't care less.

You're the one who kept asking for quotes from Paul that requires interpretation in 2004. (Not the interpretation itself.) For a person for whom NT teachings are an important part of every day life, I should think the one I found is a good such example.

I am not such a person.

Hope I didn't disappoint you.

dq

inquisitive01

Then one must wonder why you bothered posting here in this thread in the first place. :huh:

DramaQ

Because I find the subject of "biblical contradictions" interesting. And I found the repeated requests for quotes from Paul distracting.

You're absolutely right. I shouldn't have bothered following down that path.

(For the record, though, the fact that I have no interest whatsoever in interpreting Paul for the 21st century has no bearing on any interest I may have in finding such quotes - which is all you actually asked for in the first place.)