Hermeneutics 101 (was-Re: Rings and Things)

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On Wed, 07 Aug 1996 16:21:17 -0300, you wrote:


>I just get sick of talking to G. Boyd and having him throw it up in my face
>as an inconsistancy inour testimony. 

Send him over here. As you know, we got some material waiting for him.
:)

> If you think you can geet me a forum, I might just say something.

Oh boy... 
/me backs off and heads for the shadows


>Mark: my point was that if we take away a wedding ring because it is not
>Bible, all of the common wedding ceremony goes too. Inckluding a marriage
>license, because "it is just a piece of paper". As a pastor you wouldn't
>counsel a couple getting married to ignore getting a license would you? Its
>avoiding the appearance of evil. A ring can serve the same purpose as a
>license, showing on is married. It is neither explicitly approved of or
>disapproved of by God in Scripture.

Well, I agree..., but I could not tell you that.  :)

Sincerely though, the marriage liscence is not jewlry, lest not the
way we display ours. :)

>>Mark carefully, Bro Frank: we who teach against jewelery are not
>>teaching against bits of metal or traditions, but say that it is God's
>>will that we demonstrate His ability to supply what the carnal man
>>seeks for in terms of value vainly, through fleshly means.
>>
>>Spiritual life is not empowered lest the flesh is denied. This is the
>>principle behind all these matters, and they become twisted without
>>such understanding.
>>
>
>These 2 paragraphs are without a doubt the best reasoning I have heard so
>far for many of the standards we proclaim. Methinks you need to at least
>share the prophets mantle with me. You were perhaps deeper than you
>realize.

Thanks, but I know what I mean.. just have trouble saying it sometimes
(most times really). I appreciate every conversation I have had with
you Frank, because you have a really excellent spirit and are always
seeking to be perfect in understanding and expression. I do not say
this because you and I can reach agreement withou my having to bend
too far, but because it is my goal also, and it is therefore easy for
me to see in you.


>I would appreciate that. I have studied it out myself, but you may have it
>a touch better than I. As I said before, my aim is not to argue Jewellry,
>but to raise the level of Biblical work done in the defense of the
>Apostole's Doctrine.

yeah, bullseye.. Thats the best reason for ANY work.. Because JESUS is
the ONE TRUE God. Everything is justified here, and the spiritual
house is full of the many voices shouting the same thing in many ways.


>Count yourself blessed. I have found, in my own experience, that a spirit
>of holiness draws women with the type of spirit you speak of in some
>perverse way. Yet were they to achieve their end, they would destroy the
>very thing that attracted them.

Yeah, thats why you have to be a little fierce and even cold. :)

>Sounds like there, might be a thing or two for me to learn on that front.
>Any of you married men want to share some of this with those of us new to
>it all?

Yeah, dont even think about being subtle. Thats a surrender right
there.

Here is a starter line:

"Maam, I want you to know that I have a wonderful relationship with
God, and he gave me a beautiful wife that I love 1000 times more today
than when I first met her. 

Believe me, you would not want to be anywhere near the kind of fool
that would throw that away for anything, much less for some flirtation
and sin, and a reservation in hell".

Then turn your back and walk away. You will love the results if you
are spiritual :)