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Originally Posted by boxcar
Okay then...since God's word is eternal, unchanging, perfect and purer than silver tried in a furnace seven times, and is flawless throughout, then it's not possible that God would have multiple lateral meanings for multiple generations of his people. Yes, God does often times have multiple vertical significances or applications that drill down to reveal deeper profound, spiritual truths, but those truths never change the writer's original, objective meaning or the understanding of the original audience. Quite the contrary. They affirm the original meaning!
Furthermore, and this is extremely important, whatever deeper, more profound truths any given scripture passage may be discovered to have, that truth will be found in scripture itself -- not outside of it! In other words, the mighty fallen men of science and their profanely inspired science text books are not going to unveil any great mysteries to the Word of God, or reveal to us any deep spiritual truths. And there's certainly nothing spiritual about the theory of evolution. In fact, we couldn't get a theory more anti-God than evolution! Can you not hear the mighty wise scientists, emulating their spiritual father by whispering loudly into mankind's ear, "Has God really said..."?
My friend, God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. There is no shadow of turning with him. What he revealed to his prophets and apostles thousands of years ago has the same objective meaning to his people today.
We cannot possibly say that God's Word is objective, absolute truth if the meaning of that truth has been evolving for thousands or gazillions of years.
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"Those truths never change the writer's original, objective meaning or the understanding of the original audience".
If I understand you correctly, You've just obliterated the typological sense, else Christ had no need to reveal the New hidden in the Old...
https://biblia.com/books/nasb95/Lk24.27
So for the author and hearers of the command of YHWH that circumcision be an everlasting covenant sign...
https://biblia.com/books/esv/Ge17.10-14 ...
the "writer's original, objective meaning or the understanding of the original audience" was that baptism would supplant circumcision?..
https://biblia.com/books/esv/Col2.10
... Then why the "Council of Jerusalem" to hash out the question (Acts 15), if all understood the intent and absolute truth of Gen 17?
"Whatever deeper, more profound truths any given scripture passage may be discovered to have, that truth will be found in scripture itself"...
Discovering those "deeper, more profound truths" requires exegetical research in order to contextualize passages in terms of era, culture, contemporary literary genre (e.g, mythopoeic narrative in the Ancient Near East), political situations, geography, etc. In that manner, many Reformed scholars attribute the language and intent of Gen 1 to a mythopoeic polemic against Israel's polytheistic neighbors. They don't consult "Evolution Monthly".
" We cannot possibly say that God's Word is objective, absolute truth if the meaning of that truth has been evolving for thousands or gazillions of years".
Don't confuse me with the UCC... "Don't place a period where God has placed a comma".
Organic theological development...
https://biblia.com/books/esv/Eph5.32
has nothing to do with the way God may have chosen to form previous matter, be it dust or hominid, into rational man.
