(August 4, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Cato Wrote:Please define "unrelated paragraphs." Specifically, show how passages that contain the same concept can be defined as unrelated.(August 4, 2015 at 4:19 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: Some doctrine's are arrived at explicitly and some are arrived at systematically (what you call hopscotch). A rejection of a doctrine arrived at systematically is to reject the system by which it was derived. What is your critique of the systematic approach?
I reasonably reject it. It's no different than taking War and Peace, extracting sentences from unrelated paragraphs in different chapters and then cobbling them together to create justification for a wholesale new idea all the while asserting with authority that Tolstoy was the author of the new creation. It's rather silly.
Please define "wholesale new idea." Specifically, given that the word, and thus the idea, sheol appears earlier to Christianity, how can it be considered new to Christianity?
If it could be proven beyond doubt that God exists...
and that He is the one spoken of in the Bible...
would you repent of your sins and place your faith in Jesus Christ?