@fivesolatyler I’d be interested to know what their understanding of preaching is and how they feel about manuscripts. I’d also be interested in knowing their attitude towards written vs. extemporaneous prayers.
@pj_schreiner What is your theory of inspiration? I ask because in any case where the meaning of an inspired text is not known to the human author, the resulting mode of inspiration amounts to dictation yet all textual features point to superintendence.
Number 1 can’t be true because fiction has a literal sense. The literal sense belongs to the text and its author, not to historical events. Any historical referent is accidental to the text, not essential. This can be affirmed while also affirming the historicity of the historical referents when such are intended to be conveyed by the authors of scripture. So, God has absolutely acted in history, but one of those acts was inspiring a book. I need to think through the other 3 more, but they read like reaching and stretching to fit the Quadriga into a christocentric paradigm.
@Brian_Sauve "The bride eyes not her garment,
but her dear Bridegroom's face.
I will not gaze at glory,
but on my King of grace.
Not at the crown He giveth,
but on His piercéd hands;
the Lamb is all the glory
of Emmanuel's land."
Western civ is a blessing; it isn't telic.
The Bible doesn't promote some concept of "personhood" apart from humanity. It does say that man is God's image. Man, without qualification. There is no human that is not the image of God regardless of size and/or location. In Psalm 51, David writes of being sinful since conception.
NETTR/NETTL doesn't work because there are no checks or balances, so authority flows in one direction, to the most extreme, and if horseshoe theory is correct, then it just concentrates power instead of diffusing along the spectrum. You wind up investing everything in a strongman. If horseshoe theory is wrong, then it results in war.
Sermons are not just thoughts though, they are compositions, even if partly extemporaneous. I’ve seen examples of word-for-word plagiarism even going so far as using the same personal anecdotes as illustrations. It doesn’t take any effort to say “so and so said” or at the very least “I heard somewhere”.
Yes, that's a Christological statement, not a Trinitarian statement. It might help to untangle the terminology. "divinity" is a general category that applies to multiple beings in the unseen realm. Think little g vs. big G. He is 100% god and 100% human. Also, Jesus is Yahweh, and Yahweh is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.