Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mike@turing.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Chapter I: Of the Holy Scripture Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 90 07:12:23 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of No Money, Albuquerque, New Mexico Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jhpb@garage.att.com writes: > No individual has the sure lock on the truth of interpretation of > Scripture or any other matter, and should never attempt to impose a > particular interpretation on others. We are all fallible, and must > remain mindful of that. I should like to see this proved from ecclesiastical history. Where is this doctrine to be found among the Fathers of the Church? Do we not find just the opposite? It would be quite unlikely that this could be proved from ecclesiastical history, in the sense you require. For, you see, this is a statement that, ultimately, ecclesiastical history is not an authoritative guide to its future. Any Father who said what I did, and attempted to impose it on future generations, as an interpretation of Scripture, would be oxymoronic. In fact, we do find just the opposite among the Fathers of the Church. That's one of the reason that I don't use the Fathers of the Church as a standard of doctrine. -mib -- Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. CARPE DIEM / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!