Does reformed theology make otherwise lay people, cerebral exegetes? It sure seems that way to me. I'm not making this a good or bad and right or wrong kind of thing, I'm simply making an observation. For lack of a better word at the moment, I find this situation "cute." Anyway - having said that which has nothing to do with this post - this week we studied the doctrine of limited atonement and answered the question, "for whom did Christ taste death?" We exegeted words such as "world" and "all," and saw that from the context, each example where people assumed the words "all" and "world" to be universally all people in everywhere, existing in all time, the scripture meant something else, namely "all people within a specific context" - vis - "all sorts and/or kinds of people - e.g., Jews, Gentiles, Rich, Poor, Kings, Peasants, Blacks, Whites, etc. I was pleased with the turnout (we had a lot of people), and with the knowledge of the people there. More than that however, I was pleased with the heart-felt prayers of everyone asking God to not allow us to become just hearers and intellectual fools who pride themselves in their knowledge, but to practically live out what is being learned, and to be transformed by the implications of scripture.You guys rock!
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