Gus <> wrote in message . >

> > I can’t speak for Ken, but from knowledge of him personally and via this

> > newsgroup I believe he’s committed to _truth_ as he understands it – and

> > neither conservatives not liberals have a monopoly there

> >

>

> Truth “as he understands it”! Wow! So that means truth is as variable as

a > person’s viewpoint.

Right. But an evangelical person’s viewpoint is governed by their acceptance of the Scriptures as authoritative in all matters of faith and practice (which is my position)…

> Are you suggesting that is no such thing as an absolute? Is the Word of

God > not an absolute? Is it open to various viewpoints?

Only God is absolute

All our understandings of God are refracted through the prism of our understanding

The biblical writers are brilliant examples of this: they knew in part, and the parts make up a beautiful whole. They did not believe they had access to the whole of ‘absolute’ truth (that is only for sectarians and arrogant know-alls)…

See http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/9018.htm and http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/2975.htm for my articles on this general theme…

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Shalom! Rowland Croucher

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