Marbaniang, Domenic

The third important source of knowledge in Indian epistemology is Sabda (Word or Verbal Testimony); the first two are pratyaksha  (direct perception, experience) and a numana  (inference, reasoning). The role of testimony as source of knowledge is crucial since it affirms the unity of knowledge and the fact that much of what we know has come to us by means of testimonies. Historical knowledge copiously relies on written testimony. Similarly, culinary science, medicine, architecture and a host of sciences conserve and convey knowledge to us. However, not everything conveyed as information is necessarily true. However, by affirming the first two sources of knowledge to be authentic, we also affirm that testimonies of direct perception cannot be considered as unreliable sources of information; for by rejecting the reliability of testimonies, one also rejects the reliability of one’s own experience and his testimony of it. The authenticity of Christian experience is deep...

We usually judge things when we choose to buy or buy again. We look at reviews of products before we buy and have an opinion about products after we have used them. Suppose someone asked me the question, "How do you know that this dictionary is better than the other?" I would not reply that I don't consider any dictionary authoritative or true because it is compiled by humans; I would not question, "Why should any human tell me what is the meaning of a word?" I know the quality and the veracity of a dictionary by using it. If a dictionary is a standard and reliable one, i.e. it is authoritative, then it will help me to make sense of language every time I come across a word that I cannot make sense of. Similarly, a scripture that deals with spiritual reality can only be authoritative and genuine when it helps me make a meaningful and right sense of the universe and my experiences in the world. Suppose, it is filled with unintelligible words or with stuff that can...

Simplified from the Works of James Arminius, Vol.2, Disputation 8: On the Perspicuity of Scriptures The Bible has the quality of letting its thought be clearly understood through its words to all who are ministered to according to the good providence of God. This quality of the Bible is called the perspicuity of Scriptures. The Bible has this quality because God, the source of Scriptures is both wise and good and has not failed to clearly and perfectly communicate His thoughts. Also, the ones for whom the Scriptures are given cannot be saved without the knowledge of what God has revealed in the Bible. Of course, this doesn't mean that everything in the Bible is equally clear to all persons alike; but, there are a few things, as for example in the epistles of Paul, that "are hard to be understood" and "the gospel is hid, or concealed, to them who are lost, in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe." But those senses or meanin...

TO PARENTS A. Encourage your child (Colossians 3:21) Don’t let them feel discouraged, sullen, inferior, or frustrated. Give gifts (Luke 11:11-13), Forgive, don’t dig the past (Luke 15:22) B. Discipline him/her while he is young (Proverbs 19:18; Hebrews 12:10) C. Nurture him/her in the Lord (Ephesians 6:4) 1. In the training (Proverbs 22:6, Catechize, 2Timothy 3:15) 2. Discipline (Proverbs 13:24; 22:15; 19:18; 23:13,14; 29:15,17) 3. Counsel 4. Admonition D. Do not Irritate your child (Colossians 3:21; Ephesians 6:4) 1. Do not provoke to anger 2. Do not exasperate him/her to resentment 3. Do not fret 4. Do not be hard on them or harass them 5. Do not break their spirit E. Provide for one’s home (1Timothy 5:8; Proverbs 31:21,22,24,27). TO CHILDREN A. Obey your parents in all things. Make it a lifestyle to obey. For this is well pleasing unto the Lord (Colossians 3:20). B. Obey your parents in the Lord. (Ephesians 6:1). For this is right. C. Honor them (Ephesians 6:2,3). That it may be wel...

Excerpt from Modern Theologies of Revelation, Originally “Theology of Revelation” (2007); ISBN 978-1-105-18397-3 (PB, Lulu.com); ISBN 978-1-105-27463-3 (Ebook, Lulu, ITunes, Nook); ASIN B005O80G1G (Amazon.com) A study of the Bible shows that authentic revelation is chiefly verbal. By this is not meant that visions, dreams, theophanies, miracles, and spiritual understanding have not been means of divine communication. What is meant is that revelation comes in an authentic, reliable, and knowable form only through verbal communication. Even in visions, dreams, and supernatural phenomena what ultimately constitutes revelation is verbal testimony. 8.1. General Revelation Vs Revelation as Verbal Testimony Nature cannot be revelatory of God in the same way that a watch is revelatory of a watch maker. Still in the case of the watch, one can have no idea of the specific watch maker, unless first of all he already knows the watchmaker or the watchmaker has inscribed his name on the watch. As fa...

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From Finney's Systematic Theology , Lecture 39 (1) Different passages must be so interpreted, if they can be, as not to contradict each other. (2) Language is to be interpreted according to the subject matter of discourse. (3) Respect is always to be had, to the general scope and design of the speaker or writer . (4) Texts that are consistent with either theory, prove neither. (5) Language is to be so interpreted, if it can be, as not to conflict with sound philosophy , matters of fact, the nature of things, or immutable justice.

I am convinced that we can trust the Bible: trust it as the true revelation of God. The pluralism of “revelations” calls for the exercise of the law of non-contradiction. The modern relativistic, pluralistic mood looks at the Bible as another “truth”. But the fact is that there can never be an absolute infrastructure for relative truth. They always differ in their infrastructure though the superstructure might appear to be the same. The trustworthiness of the Bible is a very important issue, since it addresses issues of ultimate concern: Theology, Cosmology, and Teleology (purpose, salvation). And it supercedingly differs from other “revelatory” sources. Either the Bible is true or false; it is either trustworthy or non-trustworthy. How do we know if we can trust the Bible, then? The Philosophical Test of Internal Consistency. In depth study shows that the Bible is never self-contradictory or self-defeating. As a matter of fact, though the books of the Bible were written over a time ...

MDiv, CITS, Sept 11, 2000 THOUGH there may be a way of depending on the Scripture (i.e., the Bible) without any adherence to or trust in its content (e.g. one may depend on the Bible for knowledge concerning what the early Christians believed and how they behaved, etc), dependence on Scripture, here, means dependence on the infallibility of and the reliability of Scriptural truth—and so to live life on the basis of what the Bible says concerning life. I contend, then, that the true basis of depending on the Scripture is the real fulfillment of the ultimate existential necessity of life in experience. It is not what can be known by experience or reason that the Bible is depended for, but more for what it says concerning the unknown – concerning the Infinite, the origin and destiny of man and the cosmos, the significance of life, etc. The Bible, then, is a revelation – and this is generally accepted as a fact. Thus, the accounts of history and other writings are not mere accounts but a r...