System of morality? (For Randy)

Farrell Till errancy@infidels.org
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:33:22 -0700 (00928499602, 2.2.32.19990604073322.008efd24@midwest.net) 

At 08:52 PM 6/3/99 EDT, you wrote:

>In a message dated 5/31/99 11:58:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 

>avatar8@sympatico.ca writes:

>

>>  

>>  >RANDY

>>  > 

>>  >   I believe the arguments for the inerrancy of Scripture are sound.  I 

>>  >  don' t believe the

>>  > argument for the accuracy of the Book of Mormon are sound.

>>  

>>  AVATAR8

>>  Let's hear them!

>>   

>

>  RANDY

>

>   Judging by the activity on this list, you've already heard, and rejected, 

>them.

>And I'm trying to reduce, not increase, the number of threads in which I'm 

>involved.  

>


TILL
Until I see evidence to the contrary, I will have to believe that you know
that you cannot give any reason evidence for the inerrancy of the Bible.
Hence, you choose to evade the issue.


>>  >   RANDY

>>  > 

>>  >   I can trust my interpretation of the objective content of Scripture 

>>  >  more than I can trust my subjective sense of the leading of the Holy

Spirit.

>>  

>>  AVATAR8

>>  Can you explain what you mean by "objective content of Scripture" and

>>  "subjective sense of the leading of the Holy Spirit?"

>>  

>

>  RANDY

>

>  The objective content of Scripture is the words on the page of the Bible.  

>The "subjective 

>sense of the leading of the Holy Spirit" is my impression of what I believe 

>God is communicating to me.

>


TILL
Please explain to us why anyone should believe that your "impression" of
what you believe God is communicating to you is right but the "impression"
of another Christian who believes that God is communicating something
contrary to what your "impression" is is wrong.  In other words, you have
the "impression" that God is communicating X to you as the meaning of a
particular scripture, but another person has the "impression" that God is
communicating to him that not X is the meaning of this same scripture.  How
is it possible to know which "leading" of the Holy Spirit is making the
right communication?

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net