depth of study?

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At 03:28 PM 12/10/98 -0500, you wrote:

>TILL

><snip>

>I have found your postings fascinating, but, believe me, you could post this

>stuff until doom's day, and it wouldn't make the slightest impression on a

>biblical inerrantist.

>

>EDWARDS

>I agree. This seems, unfortunately, to be true.  I was discussing some

>rather basic textual issues with a biblicist a few days ago.  One of his

>comments to me was that I studied the bible in too much detail to understand

>what it was saying (a familiar refrain).  My response was, how much less do

>I need to know to understand it correctly?

>

>


GEISIK

Yes!!!  I get the same thing.  "You are reading it too closely."  "You are trying to understand too much."  "You are interpreting it with your mind."

Funny how I used to get just the opposite response from them.  "You should read the Bible more."  "The answers are in there if you would just look deep enough."

Now that I know this stuff better than they do, their story has changed.

Carl Geisik

P.S.  Great come back though.  Mind if I use it?

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