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Re: Interpretation
Posted By: Issachar, on host 66.26.251.249
Date: Friday, May 17, 2002, at 21:00:56
In Reply To: Re: Wise man = Husband = HalfWitt posted by Dave on Friday, May 17, 2002, at 16:11:36:

> Sam's post gives one interpretation of what the Bible says about marriage. Other people obviously have a hugely different interpretation. How can anyone possibly objectively say which is "right"?

The best thing I can say about that is, "some interpretive practices are better than others." A large part of our seminary training was exposing flawed hermeneutical methods (eg. argument from silence) and learning valid ones (eg. consideration of context and literary form). I don't have any qualms about calling some interpretations valid and others invalid on the basis of the methods used to derive them. That still leaves a certain breadth of viewpoints, but sticking to "good" interpretive practice cuts out a lot of the chaff right from the get-go.

Iss "allergic to chaff" achar

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