tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post5734335764963846112..comments2023-07-06T15:14:57.204+01:00Comments on JOHN'S BLOG: Understanding the Old TestamentJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-54063433717204521132008-12-02T23:31:00.000+00:002008-12-02T23:31:00.000+00:00I've continued the discussion here.I've continued the discussion <A HREF="http://custardy.blogspot.com/2008/12/secular-academia-and-bible.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-72569967214196426342008-12-02T07:12:00.000+00:002008-12-02T07:12:00.000+00:00As far as I can tell, Miss Bassett, the problem he...As far as I can tell, Miss Bassett, the problem here is that you're assuming (without any justification) that Custardy and Peter Enns arbitrarily decided to accept the New Testament as inspired without any critical examination.<BR/><BR/>Of course, Enns says nothing about a "scholarly" approach to OT hermeneutics; instead, he makes the entirely reasonable claim that a Christian perspective of the Speaker for the Deadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032990561585099482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-78078077479531068232008-12-01T18:36:00.000+00:002008-12-01T18:36:00.000+00:00And there's the problem. You can't begin to uderst...And there's the problem. You can't begin to uderstand either the New Testament or the Old, because you approach them with all YOUR answers to the questions before they have even been asked. Sometimes I think that Richard Dawkins cheats because he wrongly represents Christians as being entrenched in anti-intellectualism, then I see the sort of thing that you have just written and I know I am beingmadeline bassetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754901757473592547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-81974522398123464302008-12-01T17:21:00.000+00:002008-12-01T17:21:00.000+00:00I think he'd do a pretty good job of servicing a c...I think he'd do a pretty good job of servicing a car myself...<BR/><BR/>Of course, the Christian belief is that Jesus is God, and therefore might have some important things to say about what the right way to interpret his own word.<BR/><BR/>It's a rather nice way to deal with the postmodern problem of authorial intent in the Old Testament. It's got dual authorship, and we can know the intent of Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-37287900635327044092008-12-01T17:00:00.000+00:002008-12-01T17:00:00.000+00:00I'm gld to hear it. Jesus was not a Biblical schol...I'm gld to hear it. Jesus was not a Biblical scholar, nor was he a car mechanic. I would not go to him either for an opinion on the authorship of the Book of Deuteronomy or to have my car serviced.madeline bassetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754901757473592547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-51741833526731992342008-12-01T16:46:00.000+00:002008-12-01T16:46:00.000+00:00I think you may be disagreeing with Jesus and pret...I think you may be disagreeing with Jesus and pretty much all the New Testament authors there...Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-32317845230928788092008-12-01T16:05:00.000+00:002008-12-01T16:05:00.000+00:00This is, of course, nonsense. Christian study of ...This is, of course, nonsense. Christian study of the Old Testament should follow the most rigorous academic discipline. This means that preconceptions should be put aside and that the texts themselves, the setting in which they were created, the evidence we have from non-biblical sources and all other scholarly tools should be used. The New Testament has no place whatever in the study of the Oldmadeline bassetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754901757473592547noreply@blogger.com