Beth O
February 28th, 2008, 02:59 PM
“Either/OR” OR “Both/And” Thinking
This work would add to this thought that the absolute confusion caused by the modernist cry, “Poly-Scripturae”, has given considerable impetus to the above abomination that has fallen on America. Without any absolute document that can be handed to someone, and that someone told, “This is what God said,” relativism is going to ensure. Satan knew this would happen if attacks on the Received Text and the best translation of that text, the King James Bible, were successful. Anyone who has not studied the issue carefully can say in this postmodern age, not “This is what God said,” but rather, “What has God said?!” “You don’t have His Words, only what you think He said!” The postmodernist holding dozens of “Bibles” can say, the “originals” have been lost and only the originals were “inspired,” so what the world now has, because of the “corruption” of the text, is only an approximation or estimate of “What God said.: The modernist and postmodernist can say: “The loss of the absolute accurate ‘Words of God’, if there ever was such a thing, and the guess used by modernistic textual critics called “the ring of truth.” is not accurate enough for me to use in a technologically precise ‘modern’ world.” Many go on to demonstrate this belief: “Since society does not have the precise ‘Words of God’, and many of the Bibles are in reality contradictory to one another, Eastern theology or Zen Buddhism is also an acceptable way of thinking.” Why? Because Buddhism does not mind contradicting itself or being inconsistent. It is a mystical way of thinking which denies a dualistic world-view such as truth verses error or right verses wrong. Another way to state this insidious Eastern religion’s point of view is to point out they do not accept “either/or” way of thinking, but like the postmodern, the “both/and” line of argument. They are both right! By now you must realize where this is leading. The postmodern world that has completely lost its firm foundation or absolute authority, and is Precariously balanced on sinking sand, says that “no religion is wrong,” and that “we all worship the same God,” and that “if you believe something different than this eclectic smorgasbord, you are politically incorrect.”
Ravi Zacharias points out just how fallacious the both/and line of argument is:
“As a professor waxed eloquent and expounded on the law of non-contradiction (both/and), he eventually drew his conclusion: “This (either/or) logic is a Western way of looking at reality. The real problem is that you are seeking … contradiction as a Westerner when you should be approaching it as an Easterner. The both/and is the Eastern view of reality.” After he belabored these two ideas on either/or and both/and for some time…. I finally asked if I could interrupt his unpunctuated train of thought and raise on question…. I said, :Sir, are you telling me that when I am studying Hinduism I either use the both/and system or nothing else?” There was pin-drop silence for what seemed an eternity. I repeated my question: “Are you telling me that when I am studying Hinduism I either use the both/and logic or nothing else? Have I got that right?” He threw his head back and said, “The either/or does seem to emerge, doesn’t it?” “Indeed it does emerge,” I said. “And as a matter of fact, even in India we look both ways before we cross the street—it is either the bus or me, not both of us.”
This fallacious way of thinking demonstrated by Ravi Zacharias has permeated our culture over the last several hundred years. This type of thinking has invaded the “scholars” who have been responsible for translating the Scriptures. They believe the translations made by them using the dynamic translation technique verses the verbal equivalent technique are both/and correct. The tenet of this work is that both/and cannot be correct. The correct technique has to be either/or. The both/and Eastern thinking has caused confusion in regards to selecting an absolute, inspired, infallible Bible. With the loss of firm foundation and “final authority” such activities as abortion, gay sex, sexual fantasies, cohabitation, drunkenness and viewing pornography are acceptable, whether the person participates or not. In other words, if it is right for you, then do it.
One Word World View: “WHATEVER”
Without some firm and compelling basis for suggesting that such acts are inappropriate, (from absolutes in a Bible they know is accurate) people are left with philosophies such as ‘if it feels good, do it’, ‘everyone else is doing it’ or ‘as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else, it’s permissible.’ In fact, the alarming fast decline of moral foundations among our young people has culminated in a one-word world view, ‘WHATEVER!’
The contention of this work is that “The Lie That Changed The Modern World,” which began in the 17th century Europe, was exacerbated by mid-19th century English professors, Westcott and Hort, and has culminated in so-called “Bibles” of the 20th and 21st centuries, has contributed greatly to the apostasy of the ‘last days’. The following quote from Mr. Barna quoted above is worth repeating here:
“When a majority of Christian adults, …. As well as three out of four born again teens proudly cast their vote for moral relativism, the Church is in trouble. Continuing to preach more sermons, teach more Sunday school classes and enroll more people in Bible study groups won’t solve the problem since most of these people don’t accept the basis of the principles being taught in those venues.”
Taken from Pages 374-top of 377 of “The Lie That Changed The Modern World” H.D. Williams, M.D.
This book is a compilation of writings by many authors on this topic. It has a great history lesson of how our Bible came to be. Can be found at this site:
http://www.biblefortoday.org/
This work would add to this thought that the absolute confusion caused by the modernist cry, “Poly-Scripturae”, has given considerable impetus to the above abomination that has fallen on America. Without any absolute document that can be handed to someone, and that someone told, “This is what God said,” relativism is going to ensure. Satan knew this would happen if attacks on the Received Text and the best translation of that text, the King James Bible, were successful. Anyone who has not studied the issue carefully can say in this postmodern age, not “This is what God said,” but rather, “What has God said?!” “You don’t have His Words, only what you think He said!” The postmodernist holding dozens of “Bibles” can say, the “originals” have been lost and only the originals were “inspired,” so what the world now has, because of the “corruption” of the text, is only an approximation or estimate of “What God said.: The modernist and postmodernist can say: “The loss of the absolute accurate ‘Words of God’, if there ever was such a thing, and the guess used by modernistic textual critics called “the ring of truth.” is not accurate enough for me to use in a technologically precise ‘modern’ world.” Many go on to demonstrate this belief: “Since society does not have the precise ‘Words of God’, and many of the Bibles are in reality contradictory to one another, Eastern theology or Zen Buddhism is also an acceptable way of thinking.” Why? Because Buddhism does not mind contradicting itself or being inconsistent. It is a mystical way of thinking which denies a dualistic world-view such as truth verses error or right verses wrong. Another way to state this insidious Eastern religion’s point of view is to point out they do not accept “either/or” way of thinking, but like the postmodern, the “both/and” line of argument. They are both right! By now you must realize where this is leading. The postmodern world that has completely lost its firm foundation or absolute authority, and is Precariously balanced on sinking sand, says that “no religion is wrong,” and that “we all worship the same God,” and that “if you believe something different than this eclectic smorgasbord, you are politically incorrect.”
Ravi Zacharias points out just how fallacious the both/and line of argument is:
“As a professor waxed eloquent and expounded on the law of non-contradiction (both/and), he eventually drew his conclusion: “This (either/or) logic is a Western way of looking at reality. The real problem is that you are seeking … contradiction as a Westerner when you should be approaching it as an Easterner. The both/and is the Eastern view of reality.” After he belabored these two ideas on either/or and both/and for some time…. I finally asked if I could interrupt his unpunctuated train of thought and raise on question…. I said, :Sir, are you telling me that when I am studying Hinduism I either use the both/and system or nothing else?” There was pin-drop silence for what seemed an eternity. I repeated my question: “Are you telling me that when I am studying Hinduism I either use the both/and logic or nothing else? Have I got that right?” He threw his head back and said, “The either/or does seem to emerge, doesn’t it?” “Indeed it does emerge,” I said. “And as a matter of fact, even in India we look both ways before we cross the street—it is either the bus or me, not both of us.”
This fallacious way of thinking demonstrated by Ravi Zacharias has permeated our culture over the last several hundred years. This type of thinking has invaded the “scholars” who have been responsible for translating the Scriptures. They believe the translations made by them using the dynamic translation technique verses the verbal equivalent technique are both/and correct. The tenet of this work is that both/and cannot be correct. The correct technique has to be either/or. The both/and Eastern thinking has caused confusion in regards to selecting an absolute, inspired, infallible Bible. With the loss of firm foundation and “final authority” such activities as abortion, gay sex, sexual fantasies, cohabitation, drunkenness and viewing pornography are acceptable, whether the person participates or not. In other words, if it is right for you, then do it.
One Word World View: “WHATEVER”
Without some firm and compelling basis for suggesting that such acts are inappropriate, (from absolutes in a Bible they know is accurate) people are left with philosophies such as ‘if it feels good, do it’, ‘everyone else is doing it’ or ‘as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else, it’s permissible.’ In fact, the alarming fast decline of moral foundations among our young people has culminated in a one-word world view, ‘WHATEVER!’
The contention of this work is that “The Lie That Changed The Modern World,” which began in the 17th century Europe, was exacerbated by mid-19th century English professors, Westcott and Hort, and has culminated in so-called “Bibles” of the 20th and 21st centuries, has contributed greatly to the apostasy of the ‘last days’. The following quote from Mr. Barna quoted above is worth repeating here:
“When a majority of Christian adults, …. As well as three out of four born again teens proudly cast their vote for moral relativism, the Church is in trouble. Continuing to preach more sermons, teach more Sunday school classes and enroll more people in Bible study groups won’t solve the problem since most of these people don’t accept the basis of the principles being taught in those venues.”
Taken from Pages 374-top of 377 of “The Lie That Changed The Modern World” H.D. Williams, M.D.
This book is a compilation of writings by many authors on this topic. It has a great history lesson of how our Bible came to be. Can be found at this site:
http://www.biblefortoday.org/