Godschild Wrote:Read a wood workers instruction manual from the 17th or 18th centuryPersonal experience is subjective. That's great that you have tested these authors and it works how it says, for you. The problem is that we can already get a feel for the 'qualifications' of these people because of what they have written. I can't find a certain Messiah that is a crucial tool in what they are explaining in history at all.
or for that matter a manual of resent authorship and explain how the tools work. You can't and as a woodworker neither could I until I put those tools in my hand and gained experience. Could I verify that the authors of these books were qualified to instruct me in their use, again not until I put the words about the tools into practice, then I saw exactly how qualified they were. Do I know for sure the authors of the books were who they said they were, I assume so since the tools performed as I was told. I might not be able to verify that the names of the authors, but through experience and practice I know these authors have sold me the truth. Same with scripture and God, the authors name are not important, it is the manual that instructs and helps lead to the truth, experiencing God will verify the truth and then you will know the author's written word is good, no matter his name.
This can be seen as a company making a revolutionary air conditioning where only they understand how it works. But then we could get an external engineer to tell us 'yep, their design has no flaws' which then allows us to trust this new idea. Now, this idea of Jesus I have no problems with, but there's no external sources that tell me 'yep, this is for real'. There's nothing to justify why I should even consider giving it a shot.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
