Over the millennia, Christians have invented things they have needed out of thin air.
Ad Hoc is what it is called.
You need a doctrine; you invent the doctrine.
Sometimes these doctrines amount to HAVING IT BOTH WAYS at the same time.
Sort of like Eating your cake while having it too.
The doctrine which states Jesus is fully god and fully human is one of those.
The doctrine which states you are Predestinated and you have Choice is another one.
Opponents of Christian "logic" back them into a corner and suddenly PRESTO! they invent a doctrine to get out of trouble.
PREVENIENT grace is another such rabbit-out-of-a-hat.
Ever heard of that one? Look it up. It is so Ad Hoc on the face
of it you wonder how they could concoct it with a straight face.
Christian "thinkers" such as John Calvin treat scripture as a sort of Science. They extract Laws and Doctrines from the Bible while declaring
their source as inviolable. Astoundingly, they are opposed by other equally devout and secure christians who are Diametrically opposed to the very things they wrenched from Scripture!
Same textbook (Bible) produces opposite doctrines!
Should the malleability of Bible Text make us wonder even slightly how such content as it holds ends up being all things to all people?
There is no superiority of faith, honesty or devout seriousness on either side of Doctrinal issues.
The fault can only lie in the Text itself.
If the text can be "anything" it is surely useless.
The elusive Holy Spirit works both sides in these debates and no conclusion can be reached.
What a curious conundrum, indeed!
He who controls the framing of issues and who can control the definition of words is the one who wins.
It all comes down to an argument over words.
We can't know what the actual words of scripture are.
There are no original texts.
Gone.
Vanished.
Nada.
We have plenty of fraud, however.
The reason we know it is fraud is that the results of that fraud are flagrantly apparent throughout the history of Bible believing christianity.
