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Interpreting Bible & Scientific Method
Samaritan is a Jew or Gentile? 
Poor Thing, So-Call Chup Cheng ('Santa' Monica)
Quite distasteful. (frank)
Well.. (Eveline How)
To Eveline, (Interested )
Interested (Eveline How)
Hi! Eveline, (Interested )
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Dear Interested
I was just thinking abt this Bible interpretation thing and I'm not sure if my thinking is the same as yours. You said grammatical-historical, but message should be interpreted in the 21st century. My thinking is we should understand the Bible just as those to whom it was directly written to should. This is, I think, the first step to contextualising the message. Study the background to better contextualise the central message of a particular book or epistle. For example, it helps if you at least understand what greek philosophy is abt as you study the gospel of John. Also, we who are using translated text should realise that original meanings and connotations of a particular word gets lost upon translation. "Samaritan" is a good example. Idioms are particularly tricky, as anyone who has tried to translate Chinese idioms to English without losing its meaning as well as impact can testify. Funny you should mention "bastard" because it brought to mind something which happened in my church earlier. I forgot if I've told you about this earlier. It's quite similar to what's going on abt this "samaritan" thing. Scientific method: Well, I thought I knew what the Scientific Method was all about. But since I was challenged at the other board I might as well ask my opponent for a definition. Anyway, it seems there's no definite method to talk about, only elements and working principles (hypothesis, observation, testing, etc). You are right abt the probability part. This is something which was very strong in my mind as I sought to discover the limitations in the method. Maybe it was obvious to you but I thought there must be something lacking in the method. Why, the atheist was so strong on depending on the scientific method to prove his point! Anyway, I think I'm done with this scientific method thing for now. What I realised abt it is it's an inductive method, and its limitations come from there. -eveline
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Reply to Eveline, by Interested , 11/12/00
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