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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
"Paul could allegorize because He was an apostle and could write scripture".  I cannot see any basis for this "truth" anywhere in scripture.
"Allegorizing to produce new truth" -- Paul did not do that, everything he said about Hagar did not produce a new truth. I don't think anyone can do that. Peter said that no verse is of its own interpretation so I don't believe that option of "allegorizing to produce truth" was ever open. |
When I say "new truth" I mean something that had not yet been revealed. The NT clearly says there are certain truths that were hidden until NT times. Paul could allegorize Hagar because he saw the truth of the new covenant, which had been hidden.
That doesn't mean the only reason Hagar exists in the Bible was to produce that allegory. Paul, in my opinion, just saw a parallel, and used it to paint a picture. Since he was an apostle his picture became scripture.
You or I could paint pictures, too. But what we write isn't going to become scripture. That's what I meant.