tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post7660156523980055334..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Finding the BibleRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-73926433477826392302015-12-31T19:01:37.636-05:002015-12-31T19:01:37.636-05:00Jesus: "You *KNOW* how to interpret the appea...Jesus: "You *KNOW* how to interpret the appearance of the sky" (Matthew 16:3). Interesting how they knew that before Jesus spoke this and before it was written in Matthew for them to know it. But hey, who's counting?Peter Pikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11792036365040378473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-7436641590735653342015-12-31T12:53:41.885-05:002015-12-31T12:53:41.885-05:00But in all fairness I suppose he might say: "...But in all fairness I suppose he might say: "The only thing one can know is God's word, whatever that is or contains. That is, we can't know anything other than God's word; though we really don't know what that Word is or where it might be found if it even does exist." <br /><br />His axiom is his assertion (or I should say his understand of Clark), and his defense is a claim that he cannot locate in the very Word that he is not able to maintain even exists, at least with any consistency. Skepticism at its finest. ContraGeretyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18164835145386874749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-21807233479859234442015-12-31T09:04:43.440-05:002015-12-31T09:04:43.440-05:00It is not an epistemic concern for Sean Gerety tha...It is not an epistemic concern for Sean Gerety that he believes he cannot *know* whether he is reading NIV or KJV. What he does claim to know is that any given verse is God breathed. But how does he know such things? Gerety denies that the Spirit himself justifies our beliefs in Scripture, otherwise he would be left open to consider that the Spirit can justify non inscripturatedl beliefs like personal existence. For Gerety it is God's word alone that justifies his beliefs to the level of knowledge. He is left to hang the entirety of his justifications for his beliefs that he claims as knowledge on the externalitst-fallible belief that he has a Bible in his hand -regardless of whether he knows which particular translation of the Bible he is reading. He claims he knows it is God's word and that is a problem for him. His dogmatism is rooted in his own assertions.<br /><br />You are correct that Gerety operates as an externalitst fallibilist to get "inside" the infallible Word. Scripturalists are walking paradoxes at best but more likely just plain old contradictory. ContraGeretyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18164835145386874749noreply@blogger.com