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Originally Posted by aron
... they came into scripture with a cultural bias, or lens, or filter, reasoned out a system based on that cultural disposition...
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A good example is the "God's economy" hermeneutic. This was the crown jewel of the ministry. But in order for the interpetive scheme to retain cohesion, it occasionally had to present the Bible as lacking cohesion. Occasionally, and fairly frequently if you really look, the Bible is presented by the ministry as being 'low', or 'fallen' or 'natural', or 'men's concepts'.
The ministry must be preserved at all costs, even if the Bible is diminished in the process, because the ministry is essential to build the network. The Bible, however, is expendable; occasionally useful, occasionally not useful.
Rather, I believe that the Bible coherently presents us with a picture of Jesus Christ. And the more we see it, the more opportunity we have to enter in, ourselves. Instead, the LC ministry gave us a culturally-derived interpretive model, which ultimately distracted us from the Bible and the Christ of God revealed therein.