tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post99852631910918244..comments2023-09-06T02:24:46.876-07:00Comments on Bad Quaker Bible Blog: "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness"Cat C-B (and/or Peter B)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10002916434676859262noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-67141987190277204922009-10-02T05:44:50.700-07:002009-10-02T05:44:50.700-07:00@Wee Dragon: Chabad! The Pendle Hill course on th...@Wee Dragon: Chabad! The Pendle Hill course on the synoptics included guest appearances by Marcia Prager, a rabbi who gave many insights into Christianity-as-a-form-of-Judaism. She will be speaking there on the 13th!<br />http://www.pendlehill.org/lectures/fall2009/245-a-jewish-quaker-dialogue-about-jesus<br /><br />@ Everyone: Pendle Hill is this fall putting on a whole lecture series called &Frederickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12817627491361603340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-91242699777619044622009-10-02T05:44:21.487-07:002009-10-02T05:44:21.487-07:00I'm glad this post occassioned Marshall's ...I'm glad this post occassioned Marshall's and Hystery's discussion about "reading scripture in the same spirit." I appreciate the history, Marshall. And as you can see from the personal narrative I included, it's true to my experience that you need some connection/ experience of the Holy Spirit before *really* understanding some parts. (Indeed, I might add, Frederickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12817627491361603340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-21933684840463309502009-10-01T17:31:02.635-07:002009-10-01T17:31:02.635-07:00Oh, how I miss my days at Chabad...yelling across ...Oh, how I miss my days at Chabad...yelling across a table about the meaning of passages of scripture...then sharing a meal afterwards. I love this idea of wrestling with the angel. I was once told that "doubt is a function of faith", and it completely changed how I viewed this Way I walk, scriptures, what G-d wants from me, etc... If truly we are to have relationships with G-d, then Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-76531677058944845932009-10-01T17:09:42.951-07:002009-10-01T17:09:42.951-07:00I thought about this post today as I posted the fo...I thought about this post today as I posted the following on my blog -- "The Inner Light does not lead men to do that which is right in their own eyes, but that which is right in God's eyes. As the Light is One, so its teaching is ultimately (though not superficially) harmonious. In actual experience, it is not found that souls truly looking to the Inner Light as their authority will Brent Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351957537347562545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-32447338303338367962009-10-01T15:26:33.507-07:002009-10-01T15:26:33.507-07:00going out on a limb here, but this came to me as i...going out on a limb here, but this came to me as i read this post and comments. <br /><br />holy spirit is the connection between us all. not just us now, but us always.<br /><br />putting aside linear time, which i know is not acceptable to most, but putting it aside anyways, if one were connected to spirit while writing and one were connected to spirit while reading, well isn't this where parisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14376733738129668217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-40086474944390579412009-09-30T09:18:41.777-07:002009-09-30T09:18:41.777-07:00Thank you, Marshall. That is helpful. My own bel...Thank you, Marshall. That is helpful. My own belief is that the scriptures cannot be read apart from a knowledge of the historical/cultural context in which they were written if we are to even begin to approximate what the original intent of the document could be. However, I also find that once that task is accomplished, a kind of spiritual reading to try to perceive collective ahistorical Hysteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02044678910937934731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-27402662048892800072009-09-30T08:30:11.862-07:002009-09-30T08:30:11.862-07:00The idea that Scripture must be read in the Spirit...The idea that Scripture must be read in the Spirit in which it was written, or else it will be misunderstood or not understood at all, was not original with Friends. Thomas à Kempis said it in the 15th century (<i>Of the Imitation of Christ</i>, I.5.i), and so did Luther in the 16th (in his commentary on the <i>Magnificat</i>; quoted by Barclay in the <i>Apology</i>), and William Dell about the Marshall Massey (Iowa YM [C])http://journal.earthwitness.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-69648063303795571512009-09-29T10:01:35.559-07:002009-09-29T10:01:35.559-07:00This particular passage has always been one of my ...This particular passage has always been one of my favorites although I think it makes most sense to me when I don't think about what it may have meant to the Pauline community. Oh dear. I'd like to hear more commentary about what is meant by "the spirit in which they are written." I don't think I understand the phrase accurately.Hysteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02044678910937934731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991115252720548099.post-57737182236933370462009-09-29T08:02:44.328-07:002009-09-29T08:02:44.328-07:00"I was most struck by the sterile legalism th..."I was most struck by the sterile legalism that the debate created."<br />Indeed. <br />Scriptures can be so rich when we enter into "the spirit in which they were written," and so dry when we don't.<br />Thank you for this postNatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07004334102672210987noreply@blogger.com