If one were to extend biblical teaching into areas not explicitly addressed by Scripture, how would one know if he is trying to find out something that God does not want people to know or something that is beyond the comprehension of what people can understand?

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Curt Hayashida
member, Community Bible Church (Non-denominational)
Vallejo, CA

now that is fraught with potential problems - can you give a scenario?

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-JD
1Thess5:21
Ordained Deacon, PCA
Serving in the SBC
MS

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If Scipture is silent on a issue, then one cannot extend biblical teaching into that area. So the antecedent condition that you gave can never be met.

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Richard Kairelis
Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCNA (Prarie View, IL)
Chicago, IL

Are you thinking along the line of Deuteronomy 29:29 ?

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~James Helbert~, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
TheBibleAlone.com / The Edinburgh Inn
"Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” - Zechariah 3:2

Some things are known by direct Scriptural revealtion; other things are reached by just and necessary consequence.

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"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone

An example of a scenario would be trying to come up with an idea of how God can be both one and three.

Yes.

I think what can be deduced from Scripture is equaly the Word of God as the explicit passages, since Jesus deduced 'He is not God of the dead, but of the living' from 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob', but the first statement does not literally come from the second but the second semantically contains the first.

Calvin on Deut. 29:29 can be found HERE.