Interpretation

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From: "Timothy Litteral" <brotim@gte.net>
To: higher-fire@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Interpretation

 TL> I have a section on my site called Biblical Prophesy and it would
 TL> sure save me a LOT of typing if you would allow me to post much
 TL> of this discourse.

     Please fell free to do so.

 TL> The ones I have heard.  I am pretty new at this stuff an it
 TL> amazes me that there are so many schools of thought on this
 TL> topic.

     It is amazing the number of schools of thought on eschatology. It
caught my attention when I started reading up on the subject. Fortunately I
have access to the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary library. I have
found that some of the views do violence to Scripture.

 TL> I thought that if you had the Holy Ghost this would at least make
 TL> some kind of sense and that even if you/we didn't agree on it all
 TL> or understand it all, that the overall scheme of things was
 TL> incontrovertible.

I have come to the conclusion that God will allow a person to believe
anything they want to believe.

 TL> Yep.  I have a real hard time establishing the chronology of the
 TL> Old Testament though and find that MOST impose interpretations
 TL> upon Scripture.  I personally think the the VAST majority has
 TL> already been fulfilled.  Not all, but most.

     I agree that it is a difficult task. All too frequently we see people
get things out of sequence then insist that they are correct. This requires
that other portions of Scripture be interpreted in such a way as to be
harmonious. It can and does frequently lead to some rather interesting results.

 TL> I said myself that we were closer than we thought.  There is a
 TL> resolution to our "differences."

     It is rather difficult to hold a discussion when both parties believe
it the same way. One ends up preaching to the choir. It only when there are
differences that necessitates one to articulate what he believes. Whether or
not there is a "meeting of the minds" one still has learned by the discussion.

Walter Copes
The joy of the Lord is my strength
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Walter L Copes