Intent can be surmised from context. We have nothing else. And if we are going to throw away the process of interpretation then we should stop reading all together because that's all reading is...the discovery of contextual meaning, the discovery of intent.
Concerning the judgment of God on the nations: Not sure God is in this business. I have heard this kind of rhetoric for decades and here we still are. I tend to favor the more cause and effect of wisdom and moral behavior; i.e., whatever a nation sows, that shall it also reap.
The biggest ignorance displayed in Christianity is the ignoring of literary styles throughout the bible. The distilling of so much interpretation into a literal approach has shipwrecked the mind of many a Christian. It's time to return to classic studies and learn the complexities and subtleties of literature.
Would you support Babylon in the destruction of Israel? It was, afterall, God's will. Sometimes there is grey in this world and you can't live a sanitized existence in that hue.
Social Media is the place to assume guilt, dispense with presumed innocence, and parade ourselves before the masses as judge and jury, all with no accountability.
There are a whole host of "things" we cannot prove by science, reason, or any other means. Those who discount the hearts certainty in these things have no place to turn after their denials. It is not as if we can posit some other reality by which we can operate and validate our existence, or from which we can cull knowledge. No, we are the creatures we are, and we must accept all the epistemologic...
