You ever notice that a typical Church-historian type seems to be certain that the Bible is really difficult to understand an that we need the clear guidance of the period of time that just happens to be his area of study as summarized by some book he wrote?
Then you try to find out how much time they’ve spent in serious Bible study and… “Serious Bible study? What’s that? Everyone disagrees about the Bible (but no one ever disagrees about tradition because tradition is perfectly clear. Just read my dissertation and you will see it all spelled out) so there’s no real point in studying it.”
Does it ever occur to anyone that they made their choice about how they were going to view the Bible a long time ago, like when one decided on a specialty?
They don’t believe in the clarity of Scripture because they’ve always liked other vistas. The prejudice is confirmed because they have been in the grip of a confirmed prejudice from the beginning.
Can I gather from this and subsequent posts that you’ve broken your resolve? Do you want to reconsider that?
Nope. What happens is a friend says something about some discussion that triggers several memories and associations from my own experience (in this case evenly split between Westminsterian, Romand Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox apologists) and I blog what I think.
But I’m quite busy without adding that sort of surfing right now.