On 12/16/05, Doug Skiles <skiles@...> wrote: >DGS: You know I can I suggest you stop dodging the question and provide us with some examples. > DGS: This if-ing is exactly the blind-siding aspect of an allegorical > hermeneutic Proving once again you'd prefer to misrepresent our position than engage with it. No one here has endorse "allegory" as a legitimate hermeneutic. > Transforming the > literal meaning into something which suits the interpreter This again exposes your faulty presupposition. Your presupposition is that the original author wrote with the intent that their audience read it "literally when possible" AND your presupposition is that meaning and interpretation are impossible without the original author's "literally when possible" intent. You have yet to prove the plausibility of your presuppositions via providing examples of the NT authors' use of the OT. > For the NT writers, the spiritual is > always revealed in a real physical history. Says who? Again, this is one of your unfounded presuppositions that you use to interpret the scriptures (IMHO, it is an imposition, eisegesis, on the text). > And you are > convinced that the text "cannot" be read as it stands because of what ? My own presuppositions... which I believe are warranted after studying the NT use of the OT. We all are engaging the text with our own presuppositions. The only question is "whose presuppositions" are most likely being generated by the text. > I sympathize with the predicament that allegorical interpretation No one here is using "allegorical interpretation". -- Pastor Chad Richard Bresson Clearcreek Chapel Springboro, 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