The
western church, as you know, wades around in a thick sludge of individualism.
We admit it. We bemoan it. But sometimes we don’t realize just how deep our
individualism runs. Put frankly,
you can’t understand the Bible by yourself. You need the community of God to
rightly interpret the text. You may think this is heresy—or Catholic—but hear
me out. I don’t want to deconstruct a presupposition for deconstruction’s sake.
My aim is to bring us back to a more biblical view of the Bible. I want us to
study the Bible in community because that’s how the Bible was meant to be read,
studied, and lived. Read complete article at -- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theologyintheraw/2014/11/you-cant-understand-the-bible-by-yourself/
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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