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The point of tension is that of subjectivity against objectivity. If everything stands upon his presuppositions, then he can't get around his own sense of subjectivity in his own interpretations. He can cut anyone's belief system down to size by merely saying, "Well, that's your interpretation." and does not see the self-contradiction in such an observation.
That's not the Reformed approach to the Bible. The Reformed state in their confessions what the Bible objectively teaches. These doctrines are not built upon personal presuppositions, but upon the objective Word of God.
So he clearly has misunderstood the teaching of the Bible, as well as of the Reformed Church. He finds no way out of the subjectiveness of personal interpretation; but the Reformed Church is the only Church to offer it.
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JohnV :detective:
John Vandervliet
Ontario, Canada
member of: Canadian Reformed Church
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are" C.S Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
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