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Adopted said:
I'm going to, hermeneutics or no hermeneutics, agree with you. (unless someone knocks it out of me) There is just too much there. I do know for sure that "spiritualization" and allegory of the Scripture has caused much heresy and grief among Christians.
Denny,

The issue is, Are these alleged "similarities" those which Scripture itself makes or are they something which one's imagination makes? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratchchin.gif" alt="" /> Again, the problem historically has been the over-active imagination of men "seeing things" which simply are not there and from them arrive at fanciful "types", etc. One would have to admit that "similarities" can be forced to support a preconceived idea, e.g., those promoted by the "name it and claim it" and "health and wealth" groups.

Re: misuse of allegory, I would give you but a couple of examples of men who are infamous for radical misinterpretation of Scripture: 1) Marcion and 2) Origen. Oh, and how about a "popular" one that popped up within our own day and fairly recently, "The Prayer of Jabez" <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />.

In His grace,

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