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To: LearsFool
It is a logical impossibility for a book to interpret itself.

The act of reading is an act of interpretation, and there is more than one reader.

Every translation of a book into a different language is an interpretation.

And every living language is a constantly changing interactive interpretation of external reality.

You are assuming quite a bit.

18 posted on 08/18/2015 12:13:27 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

But the Bible does interpret itself for us. For instance, when we read the story of the man caught picking up sticks on the Sabbath, and God’s command to the Israelites to stone him to death, doesn’t that help us understand what He means by “Thou shalt not kill”?


24 posted on 08/18/2015 12:46:22 PM PDT by LearsFool (Real men get their wives and children to heaven.)
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