RE: Christians Endorse God's Hatred
November 27, 2013 at 8:44 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2013 at 8:45 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(November 27, 2013 at 8:08 pm)Esquilax Wrote:Apparently you skipped over the part about how the pairing of the code with the key that opens it supports the validity of the whole. If you have an encrypted file that appears like jibberish and also have the key that unlocks the code, then the fact that the key works to unpack meaningful content means two things. 1) the key is valid, and 2) the text wasn't really jibberish afterall. Another one of your boilerplate objections fails again.(November 26, 2013 at 6:36 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Fine you say, but how do you know that you are not tailoring your symbols and allegories to fit the text? That’s possible. But suppose I did actually have a super doper decoder that could be used consistently across the entire canon and support a single doctrine. The reliability of the decoder would justify both its validity and the validity of the code on which it worked. As a matter of fact, I do have a super doper decoder, starting with the 22 volumes of Swedenborg’s “Arcana Coelestia”. These texts present an internally consistent interpretive framework for understanding the inner meaning of the Holy Scriptures.
I see a problem here, and that's that at most, all you've done is push the question back one step: how do you know the book you're using to interpret the bible isn't just Swedenborg's convenient interpretations? I find it particularly interesting that when asked how you can be sure that you aren't misinterpreting a book purportedly written by god through man, you'd point to another book written by a man, instead of some way you can be sure the interpretation you've opted to use comports with the intentions of the being that inspired it.