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"only the truth can make you free." (John 8:32)

			Yeaton Clifton

			yhclifto@vela.acs.oakland.edu

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Dee Goepel wrote:
> 
> While poetry is certainly nice, I think it is important to remember
> the gospel as it was preached by the Apostles didn't use such poetry.
> By the word poetry, I mean to say "flowery" words and vague ideas.
> At the time of writing, the Apostles used very common language, even
> slang, to convey their message.  This was probably in part because 
> few were very educated, but Paul was certainly learned enough to 
> have written in a very esoteric manner, yet he did not.  He used 
> plain words that "the man on the street corner" would understand.
>
 
While brother Goepel made many good points in his letter, this statement 
is not quite true.  Paul did use metered Poetry in Philipians, Galations 
and Ephesians.  The author of Hebrews also used poetry as did the prophet 
Habbakuk in his conclusion (the third chapter which gives a summary of 
how his out look changed after he heard from God.  In fact both Apostolic 
and secular scholars are often astounded by the complexity of Paul's 
writings both in terms of vocabulary and form of writing.  This is why 
we put such importance on the Acts of the Apostles (it is by contrast 
written more plainly.)


		May you grow in Grace as you learn scripture (whatever 
translation you chose.)

		"the truth will make you free"
		
		yeaton clifton
		yhclifto@vela.acs.oakland.edu