Quick unrelated question: is there going to be a post about the comments on the Replacing the Seventeenth amendment post, as you said you will make in a comment to that post, or has it been overtaken by events and other posts?
Yep, it just keeps getting bumped because (1) events and (2) I keep waiting for a completely clear week, because I expect it to be hard to write (because the first two parts were hard to write). Eventually I’ve just got to nut up, because I made a promise.
I think that originalism with respect to infallible statements has to be understood by the Holy Spirit's original intent. After all, we know the prophets in Scripture didn't understand what they were prophesying (1 Peter 1:10-11, let alone Caiaphas in John 11:51 who didn't even know he was prophesying!), so we can't go by their intent. The people who were hearing them often didn't understand anything (e.g. John 7:35), so we can't go by their intent. Original public meaning would, I think, also not rightly understand many prophecies (e.g. Hosea 11:1 - without Matthew's citing it, I never would've guessed it refers to Christ). The only option seems to be the Holy Spirit's intent.
Of course, "who has known the mind of the Lord?", so this can leave us confused just like the crowd hearing Jesus. But, as Paul continues, "we have the mind of Christ," so we hopefully will at least be less confused.
Quick unrelated question: is there going to be a post about the comments on the Replacing the Seventeenth amendment post, as you said you will make in a comment to that post, or has it been overtaken by events and other posts?
Yep, it just keeps getting bumped because (1) events and (2) I keep waiting for a completely clear week, because I expect it to be hard to write (because the first two parts were hard to write). Eventually I’ve just got to nut up, because I made a promise.
Fascinating questions!
I think that originalism with respect to infallible statements has to be understood by the Holy Spirit's original intent. After all, we know the prophets in Scripture didn't understand what they were prophesying (1 Peter 1:10-11, let alone Caiaphas in John 11:51 who didn't even know he was prophesying!), so we can't go by their intent. The people who were hearing them often didn't understand anything (e.g. John 7:35), so we can't go by their intent. Original public meaning would, I think, also not rightly understand many prophecies (e.g. Hosea 11:1 - without Matthew's citing it, I never would've guessed it refers to Christ). The only option seems to be the Holy Spirit's intent.
Of course, "who has known the mind of the Lord?", so this can leave us confused just like the crowd hearing Jesus. But, as Paul continues, "we have the mind of Christ," so we hopefully will at least be less confused.