AFF Press Conference: Timmy Talks

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Originally Posted by Timmy

No scrutiny? Why would it have to be scrutinized? That was the point I was making.

(If by scrutiny you mean investigations into The Iliad's authorship, yes, it has undergone scrutiny. Some scholars don't believe there was a man Homer, as Iliad author at least, but that the poems attributed to him originated as oral tradition. But nobody's eternal fate rests on the truth of that matter!)

Back to my question of interpretation. So, you would have me and the rest of the human race believe that God set down The Rules, at certain times of history, using terminology particular to those times and cultures, never modernizing them, but they are applicable and binding on all humanity (even the huge portion of humanity that has never even seen The Rules), though they are becoming farther and farther removed from today's time and culture, making it harder to follow The Rules (again, witness the arguing and fighting over what they really mean and which ones still apply)?

Mmmmmkay.

Many works of antiquity, including Homer's Iliad, have philosophical bends, which seek to answer the questions about the meaning in life. I'd say those are heavy and weighty implications.

Your second question, yes. He has tasked the first disciples, even so as we are tasked, to proclaim the Good News of His death, burial and resurrection and the hope that is in the cross.

When you approach it with such deep skepticism, nothing can persuade you. Be assured. Skepticism and doubt are not free passes, at some point you have to have an answer. This man, Christ, changed the course of human history, and millions have followed, and even risked their lives. They know Him not just by history, but through personal experiences and continual relationship with the resurrected Christ (through the Holy Spirit).

Reason will never fit into the box called Revelation, though there is no question to heavy, or doubt to hard that God falls short. Revelation is much more vast than reason and goes places reason never could. Reason is bound to hypothesis and chemicals, matter and substance. Revelation approaches not the causation of chemicals, but the creator of those causes that produced the chemicals.