Lurker wrote: Of course I did. You just don't like my response because it demonstrates how unlikely your proposition actually is.
Quite the contrary, Paul did not violate or nullify the context of this statute. He took a text which was given literally and used it as a metaphor. He did the same thing with Mount Sinai, Hagar, Mount Zion, Jerusalem and Sarah (Gal 4:24) to name a few more. I am compelled to believe he received his authority to do so from the Holy Spirit. Now, from whence do you receive your authority to do the same with Exodus 22:28?
Actually, I am teachable.... just not by tradition; "prove all things, hold fast that which is good".
As I said you're a waste of time.
So you would take what is clearly intended as a lesson in how to read the OT and make that a divinely inspired metaphor that we dare not imitate! Wow! How clever are you?
Lurker wrote: .. Tell me more about this "underlying principal" which nullifies the context of Exodus 22:28 and causes it to apply to Obama and, by extension, every head of state on the planet which presently includes the pope as head of Vatican City/State.
Lurker, you did not actually respond to the passage which I gave. Telling that!
You're not the teachable type, otherwise I might even have a shot.
I'll tell you what, why don't you take the passage that I quoted viz. "thou shalt not muzzle an Ox etc.." and then show me how Paul was justified in expounding it as he did in the NT, nullifying the context of the passage. Once you do this, let's see whether you get Paul's method of applying of the scriptures.
Lurker wrote: I have limited Exodus 22:28 to exactly what its context requires: .....
Yeah sure. I wonder what you would have made of "thou shalt not muzzle an Ox.." without the NT spelling out the application of the underlying principle?!!
I bet we'd have been in for a treat, including the limitation that this principle would only apply to Oxen owned by the Hebrew people
10/6/10 4:56 PM
Actually, I am teachable.... just not by tradition; "prove all things, hold fast that which is good".
