I hold that what is given is complete in that it was the inspired by God account of the instruction He gave to Moses. To assume more by silence is the boat that takes people to such doctrines as the covenant of works in the garden, infant baptism, and active obedience earning our righteousness. Prescriptive? As in the sanctioned and authorized account inspired by God? Why yes. Do you view it as a paraphrased handed down narrative? Harry "Chad R. Bresson" <breusswane@...> wrote: >H Dorrington wrote: >instructions that the Lord spoke to Moses word for word. That would be a presumption we cannot make with narrative and do justice to biblical hermeneutics. "Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then let all the congregation stone him." Moses narrates 3 sentences from the Lord for the Levitical reader: 1. Bring the one who has curse outside the camp. 2. Let all who heard him lay their hands on his head 3. let all the congregation stone him. Your presumption is that those are the *only* three sentences God "spoke to Moses". I disagree. Because Moses is narrating a story (as he is doing his Levitical theology) he gives us 3 sentences of what could have been 10, 20, or 30 sentences, or might even be a paraphrase (an inspired one at that) of what God said. Your argument presumes silence (since God gave 3 sentences and nothing more there is no more information) is prescriptive. My argument presumes silence (we don't have all of the data) is silence and thus informative. >Do you view the great commission as a narrative? Do you view Genesis 12:1 as prescriptive? Chad Richard Bresson Xenia, OH http://breusswane.blogspot.com/ -- Read the Sound of Grace pages at http://www.soundofgrace.com To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... To view our online archive go to our web page at http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Read the Sound of Grace pages at http://www.soundofgrace.com To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... To view our online archive go to our web page at http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace