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Originally Posted by awareness
But in the process Nigel removes certitude from the scripture. Now I'm dependent upon scholars to tell me what it means. And the right scholars. Not outdated ones. And I can't be certain about the scholars either.
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Before Nigel did what he did, you relied on other scholars. The ones who put the "common" knowledge that everyone grew up with prior to the newer analysis. We just think we got it on our own. We had a history from our earliest days as a kid. And that is what we accepted.
Then came Lee and we bought his.
But there is no more or less certitude in the scripture now than before. It is less anchored in the nuances of specific words as it is in the narrative that is understood just as well when told in very different words that could be derived from various synonyms and not needing a special lexicon to arrive at it.
In fact, the certitude that so many are concerned with is the fortune-cookie gospel of promises, factoids, incantations, etc., that so many sell as their alternative to real Christian life. If you don't needs those, then the minutia becomes less important. God spoke in the language understood, not coded words needing a decoder ring or a séance to figure out.