A Philadelphia Apologetic : Volume III (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"A Philadelphia Apologetic, Volume Three begins a closer look at New Testament texts than undertaken in Volumes One and Two. It begins a discussion of the bifurcation of truth, the negation of what has been concealed. It continues the several volume long argument for the truth being revelation that comes through realization via the indwelling of Christ. And it introduces the case that for the Elect, miracles are outwardly appearing non-events where things “just sort of work out” without calling attention to themselves. Thus, those things that occur in the Book of Acts, especially what happens to Paul, are anti-miracles, fictions originating as stock motifs in Sophist novels. Acts is an early Greek novel, not a factual history of the early Christian Church. Volume Three compares the theology of Paul, Peter, and James as recorded in their epistles with the theology of Paul, Peter, and James in Acts—and in each comparison, the author of Acts discloses that he or she doesn’t understand God or the Jesus Movement in the same way that Paul, Peter, and James of their epistles understood God and what is expected of disciples.Volume Three introduces the concept that in doubled voiced discourse there is factual truth (what is true for an event driven timeline) as well as literary truth in the “space” above a horizontal timeline, with literary truth making no claim for historicity. This bifurcation of the space-time trope is the domain of the novelist, where an exhaustive presentation of seemingly true data smothers unbelief, thereby permitting the suspension of disbelief to continue and the reader to temporarily believe what isn’t true without challenging either the historicity or believability of events. What is literarily “true” becomes the truth as seen in the acceptance of Acts as valid history by greater Christendom."