P.S. The most beneficial thing Bill taught me about finding the objective truth of Scripture was this...
- Be sure to separate the "prescriptive" aspects of the Word of God from the "descriptive" aspects. Doctrine built on top of "descriptive" text is potentially dangerous.
A specific use of this principle would be to consider the "teaching of locality". There is NO "prescriptive" Scripture for the doctrine of locality. It is all based on "descriptive" Scripture that is extrapolated into the teaching of one church, one city.
(... and no, I don't mean to move this thread in any direction other than honoring Bill...)
