That is true, but being objective is not reading through any lens but simply letting something speak for itself, and hearing, seeing, what it says and then evaluating it on its own merits, in this case, the way one arrives at what they say and whether or not it is viable with/in the full coundself of God---all of its teachings on the same subject. My offering up the Reformation study Bible was because
@PeanutGallery ask specifically what Bible was best to see the teachings of Reformation theology and how they arrive at them. So I told Him which one I used----and it is not the only study Bible I use or have ever used. I suggested it because of all the information contained in it and the way it handles text notes and cross references. It makes it easy.
My mistake was in thinking he was really asking for that information or had any interest in it at all. That Bible is not a lens, but it gives a possible lens. But to each their own. The truth is he is looking through a subjective lens already and it is the one he chooses and does not question. That has never been good enough for me, and it is not what I do now.
I see Reformed theology to be consistent with the whole counsel of God without arriving at teachings from singular scriptures or scriptures that are not put under the scrunnity of a theological microscope. And therefore one could say that I look through that lens, but it is done with objectivity, not subjectivity. And just because something is a lens through which one looks does not mean that the lens is faulty. I was simply offering him a tool, which is what he asked for, to be able to do this. I was not saying, "This is true. Believe this." Even though I do believe it. And how is someone supposed to learn about something without looking through the lens they are looking through?
The thing is, people reject Reformed theology out of hand, and actually try to argue against it, even though they have never studied it, have no idea what it teaches but simply say it teaches what they say it does, have no intent or interest in listening to what the other side says, can't even support their own beliefs objectively, and actually think they stand on the higher ground. Not to ever intend to or be capable of, one single objective thought, objectively demonstrated.
