Alpha & Omega Ministries Apologetics Blog
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A Few Thoughts on The Passion of the Christ
12/29/2003 - James White
February 25th it hits. Mel Gibson's film on the passion of Christ will bring us many opportunities to speak of God's purpose in the cross. But in a world filled with "evangelicals" whose worldview is post-modern, not Christian, the film holds the possibility of inflaming the latent tendencies toward an ecumenical betrayal of the gospel itself. I presented a few thoughts on the topic as I preached Sunday evening at PRBC (listen
/ download).
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Rules for Interpretation in the 21st Century
12/20/2003 - James White
I received an e-mail that contained a list of "Principles of Biblical Interpretation for the 21st Century. While I didn't agree with all of them, the first five were sadly accurate:
- Scripture is full of paradoxes and apparent contradictions that cannot be explained, reconciled, harmonized, or systematized by the finite, human mind [and I add, it is considered backwards, ignorant, or "traditionalist," to seek to explain or harmonize such things].
- Apparently contradictory statements in Scripture must each be given equal weight and authority in interpretation [even if their contexts are completely different, see #3].
- Each passage of Scripture stands alone and must be interpreted by itself.
- There are no passages of Scripture that speak more clearly than other passages. Each passage is equally clear. Each passage is equally unclear.
- The true and full sense of Scripture is manifold, limited only by the number of apparently contradictory passages a reader can find.
Those who seek to promote God's truth at this time when post-modernism has infected the very core of Evangelicalism, well know the truth, and destructiveness, of the above propositions.
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