Big T Truth

1
Big T Truth

• We have a problem in interpreting the Bible
• how to sort meaningfully among the divine T
  truths (universal theological) the human t
  truths of the Bible (items of culture God
  employs)
• God has a problem
• how to embed his T truth in human t-shaped
  categories which are part parcel of any human
  culture world view

2
If the Bible Consists of a Blend of Human
Cultural Divine Universal Elements, What Do We
Find When Studying it?

• Gods voice will through human conveyance
• oral
• literary
• culturally conditioned
• incarnational
• A unique source of T truth that is very human
  yet expressly divine
• Every page of Scripture and form of presentation
  is an illustration of how God adapts his
  TRUTH that defies knowing to categories,
  cultural conveyances, events that we can
  comprehend.

3
Human Language as Problem as Accommodation

• Genesis 126-28
• Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in
  our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
  the sea and the birds of the air, over the
  livestock, over all the earth, and over all the
  creatures that move along the ground." So God
  created man in his own image, in the image of God
  he created him male and female he created them.
  God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful
  and increase in number fill the earth and subdue
  it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds
  of the air and over every living creature that
  moves on the ground."

• Genesis 126-28

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