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Saturday, November 01, 2008
How is the word of God to be read?
The holy Scriptures are to be read with an high and reverent esteem of them; with a firm persuasion that they are the very Word of God, and that he only can enable us to understand them; with desire to know, believe, and obey the will of God revealed in them; with diligence, and attention to the matter and scope of them; with meditation, application, self-denial, and prayer.
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This is not a rule of faith, I think.
It is rather a belief that Scripture does speak for itself, or rather God speaks to us in it and is capable of making himself be heard.
But what then when two read the same thing but disagree? One, presumably, or both, must be sinning. I seem to recall reading Zwingli where he was saying this very thing ...
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