http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2009/12/15/the-reverse-reference-fallacy/ The theology of Reality Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2009/12/15/the-reverse-reference-fallacy/comment-page-1/#comment-18140 Deacon Duncan Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:32:29 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=1181#comment-18140 Shhh, Rev. Moon isn't ready to have the full revelation released to the public yet.... Shhh, Rev. Moon isn’t ready to have the full revelation released to the public yet….

]]> http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2009/12/15/the-reverse-reference-fallacy/comment-page-1/#comment-18138 mikespeir Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:09:42 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=1181#comment-18138 Let's just contrive something we'll call "canonical context." We'll say that the whole Canon was inspired by one Mind, and what that Mind thought of 3000 years ago was only meant to be fully revealed a thousand years later as the True Teaching came to be realized. There, wasn't that easy? We can hardly miss with that kind of hermeneutic. Let’s just contrive something we’ll call “canonical context.” We’ll say that the whole Canon was inspired by one Mind, and what that Mind thought of 3000 years ago was only meant to be fully revealed a thousand years later as the True Teaching came to be realized. There, wasn’t that easy? We can hardly miss with that kind of hermeneutic.

]]> http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2009/12/15/the-reverse-reference-fallacy/comment-page-1/#comment-18107 Josh Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:12:23 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=1181#comment-18107 Well said. Even though I'm now an atheist (for about 2 years), it was easy to see the fallacy in your first example (from Matthew), but harder to see it in the second (from Ephesians). This is a powerful fallacy indeed! Well said. Even though I’m now an atheist (for about 2 years), it was easy to see the fallacy in your first example (from Matthew), but harder to see it in the second (from Ephesians). This is a powerful fallacy indeed!

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