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Originally Posted by awareness
The Bible is Canonized/fixed . . . .
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And for so many people that is entirely true.
And as far as the underlying text is concerned, it
IS entirely true.
The problem is what we do with it. We are ready to make all kinds of changes to our understanding of it when they suit us, but are quick to insist that the inerrant word of God never changes if it is something we don't want changed.
And we can have either without changing any of the text. It is all about what we do with it.
Reminds me of an old joke . . . .
Q: What's the difference between unclear thinking and nuclear thinking?
A: It is a matter of how you use the UN.
And what nobody seems to notice that neither kind of thinking is good. (And I am not trying to slam the UN, though that may not be a bad idea at times.)
The whole dispensational theology is less than 200 years old. But nothing should change. Truth be told, there is much that should change. And none of it requires upending the Bible in any way. Just the dogmas that we have built around it.