Jesus and scripture

[pastorlenny]

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods?"' If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came -- and the scripture cannot be broken -- do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?'" -John 10:34-35

1) Why does Jesus refer to the

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[amergina]

1) The word of God came to the psalmist, as it came to all (true) prophets of God.

2) That scripture holds the Truth and nothing will change that. While we might misinterpret scripture and bend it to our will, reading scripture with the Spirit allows us to bend to God's will.

3)no.

4) The Scadducees bent scripture to their will and ignored the important bits. Jesus wanted people to follow the Truth in scripture, not what the Scadducees had decided they wanted the truth in scripture to be.

5) Real people. (Heck, he knew him in heaven. He even talks to one of them later, in the presence of the disciples.) Matthew 16:4 - person: real. Narrative - mythological (probably) but it doesn't matter, since the truth contained in the myth was a foreshadowing of the Truth of the resurrection.

[pastorlenny]

I think there is a typo in your second answer. You said "reading scripture with the Spirit" when I'm sure you meant "reading scripture with intellect and the latest pronouncements of heathen scholars."

[amergina]

*snort*

Though I have no issue with reading scripture with intellect *and* with the Spirit.

[pastorlenny]

Indeed. But I'm always amused at rejectionists who invoke "intellect" as though it was something they possessed and antimisinterpretationists lacked. In fact, to get momentarily snarky about it, I would venture that from a purely empirical perspective, one could make the case that the antimisinterpretationists among us...well, never mind.

[efriden]

All scholarly authorities on subjects touching on Bible-matters are not unbelievers. And by "unbelievers", I also mean the liberal "I claim I'm a Christian, yet I'm contextualising the crap out of any passage, that at any rate will always have to be understood in a strictly naturalistic inner-worldly manner" crowd.

[pastorlenny]

Right. That's why I put the adjective there. "Heathen" generally means "resurrection denier."

[chaeri]

i read that last word as 'dinner'...

[martiancyclist]

We have one of those every week (:

[chaeri]

i'm afraid to ask...:)

[martiancyclist]

We eat a heathen! Of course!

No, actually, we have what could be called a "resurrection dinner" -- the Eucharist -- every week.

[chaeri]

ooooh i see lol

[mintogrubb]

er - I am not denying the Ressurection.
I do still have probs with a global deluge, talking snakes and a personal Devil.
Do I still count as 'heathen', or do I have to give my Heathen card back?

[pastorlenny]

Did anyone ever even suggest you were a heathen?