gordon 2
Senior Member
I have to wonder sometimes if scripture is not a foundation for man to build another Tower of Babel.
We know that revelation is progressive both in scripture but also in the individual, and that what some part of scripture says to an individual today might be a bit or alot different tomorrow, or after a considerable span of time.
We know that the New Testaments indicates that some in the time Herod and Caiaphas at least had ears ( heard) yet listing to the same message and they yet understand radically different some from others.
There might be a general belief that doctrines might account for how we understand scripture.
There might be a case to the amount we give some scripture literal meaning as opposed to symbolic meaning, and to the very words of Jesus also as literal and symbolic that it would account for how we understand scripture.
Now unlike the Tower of Babel which in my mind goes vertical and steady to the heavens before it falls and forms a multitude of languages...and cancels the tower project, scripture as the source material of an as like tower does not cause man to fall, or to form new speak, but rather it seems to me to hand man each a piece of our Lords burial shroud as a building block, as opposed to living with God of which to build from.
Is our varied understandings of scripture the closest we will get to God this side of heaven? Is our fellowship in Christ a witness of what we seen in scripture or what we see in Christ? Is our testimony to God what we see in the light of scripture? Or Christians is it due to what we see in Christ alone?
Is heaven the sinner's gain and in heaven who's book is opened? What/who informs us? Why is it that we all seem to have heavenly ears and yet we live with multitudes of hearing disturbances-- echos, garbles,... etc... Or the spirit is willing, and the body is weak...? Is our fellowship a ministry to that which only the resurrection will cure?
We know that revelation is progressive both in scripture but also in the individual, and that what some part of scripture says to an individual today might be a bit or alot different tomorrow, or after a considerable span of time.
We know that the New Testaments indicates that some in the time Herod and Caiaphas at least had ears ( heard) yet listing to the same message and they yet understand radically different some from others.
There might be a general belief that doctrines might account for how we understand scripture.
There might be a case to the amount we give some scripture literal meaning as opposed to symbolic meaning, and to the very words of Jesus also as literal and symbolic that it would account for how we understand scripture.
Now unlike the Tower of Babel which in my mind goes vertical and steady to the heavens before it falls and forms a multitude of languages...and cancels the tower project, scripture as the source material of an as like tower does not cause man to fall, or to form new speak, but rather it seems to me to hand man each a piece of our Lords burial shroud as a building block, as opposed to living with God of which to build from.
Is our varied understandings of scripture the closest we will get to God this side of heaven? Is our fellowship in Christ a witness of what we seen in scripture or what we see in Christ? Is our testimony to God what we see in the light of scripture? Or Christians is it due to what we see in Christ alone?
Is heaven the sinner's gain and in heaven who's book is opened? What/who informs us? Why is it that we all seem to have heavenly ears and yet we live with multitudes of hearing disturbances-- echos, garbles,... etc... Or the spirit is willing, and the body is weak...? Is our fellowship a ministry to that which only the resurrection will cure?
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