About That Thieving Hardliford, GentGrant asked where I've been for the last while. Most of my oldest blogging friends (Nosuch, PopeSleipnir, Payphone, Gebryan, etc.) had all but stopped blogging, and so I started considering that the fad had well passed. Parachute pants may be making a comeback, but blogging just isn't what the cool kids do anymore I guess. More seriously, things got busy IRL and the busier I got, the more a dull boy I was becoming. So the answer I needed was not 'spend more of your free time writing treatises,' but find a way to turn the brainiac switch off for a while. Everybody needs a break. So I've been on one. That said, is proving an effective distraction to get my head from being stuck in 10th gear. I've found a pretty decent player guild, and have been exercising the creative muscles a bit now and then with a character named among a few others. You can often catch me there on Sunday afternoons and evenings and Mondays, or other times now and then. He's a And a And a sometimes God version 6.0Been a long while since I saw this and yet so totally on the mark. Order yours today!™ Daddy, Where Does Knowledge Come size=2>Along with hermeneutics (the philosophy of interpretation), related questions of epistomology (the philosophy of knowledge and knowing things) continue to intrigue me. When we start to talk about filters through which one approaches the Bible, some of those are epistomological. I approach the Scriptures with the presupposition that I can, in fact, obtain reliable knowledge there. Not ALL kinds of knowledge, mind you. I don't suspect one can ever discover how to repair the Phantom Thunder vacuum cleaner in those pages, nor do I suppose I shall find knowledge of many other subjects. But I do pre-suppose that it is a reliable source of knowledge in spiritual matters. What was believed? What was taught? I come to the Bible supposing I can learn these things from it's passages. size=2>Others approach the Bible with what has sometimes been termed a "Hermeneutic of Suspicion." This suspicion takes different forms, but what they share in common is the assumption that what one is about to read is fundamentally unreliable, untrustworthy. There is a tendency to read an insincerity into the Biblical text. Beyond insincerity, some tend to read looking to find evidence of 20th#tracking |
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