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Originally Posted by fredtgreco  Doesn't your statement beg the question in a similar way? If Scripture is "wrapped up in an unintelligible mystery" how can we even arrive at a normed norm? Scripture must be ipso facto an intelligible non-mystery in order to compile a normed norm. |
I granted that point to Marty -- the clarity of Scripture is fundamental to the normed norm. To move the argument along to the next level, which is the point at which I first answered the OP -- without the normed norm the Scripture is left in unintelligible mystery. The fact that all dogmatic statements concerning Scripture are regarded as normative in theological discussion is confirmatory of this point.