A Spellyng Mystaque

It turns out that theologians fudge their data just like scientists do. Sometimes things don't make sense, do they? What could possibly be wrong with helping them make sense? This approach is inductive, aka eisegesis.

Deductive Reasoning

It's not a good idea to pull Bible passages out of context because we've decided what we want them to mean and then proclaim that we have some new doctrine. That's inductive reasoning, or eisegesis.

Biblical Exposition

We're not building a doctrine upon one verse of scripture. The doctrine has already been built, with an extensively documented process of deductive logic. What we're doing is using our doctrine to understand a passage.

Flat Earth Induction

There's a side effect to the creation of gravity that's going to upset some people: if the Earth formed around a gravitational singularity then it's spherical. It's impossible for the Earth to be flat.

Tradition

Obviously the earth isn't flat, therefore, the Spirit of Truth can't lead you to that conclusion. It's very simple, God isn't going to expect you to believe something that's obviously wrong.

December 27th

We (all of us) are warned about tampering with the Bible. Are we (that's me and the Holy spirit) worried because our interpretation of the Bible is substantially different to anything that's gone before it? No.