The Theological Method

[cupid dave]

This at first seems a little strange, to associate the insight of the Scientific Method with a new approach to theology, one that develops theories which explicitly state facts that any observer or reader can also verify under the same specified conditions.

For example, the theory that only one very special kind of square arrangement is possible for the "curious" foursquare Breastplate of Judgment that was made "cunningly" in a way which allowed for the geometrically correct arrangement of 12 stones in four rows of three settings each.

This theological theory that insists upon very special kind of a foursquare, meaning "at all fours," insists that the only possible arrangement to satisfy this fact would be to observe the construction as shown below:

 

[farouk]

There's nothing new about the Biblical descriptions of the high priest's garments, and how it links in to the Person and work of the Lord Jesus, especially in Hebrews.

It makes for an interesting and helpful study.

 

[cupid dave]

There's nothing new about the Biblical descriptions of the high priest's garments, and how it links in to the Person and work of the Lord Jesus, especially in Hebrews.

It makes for an interesting and helpful study.

New?
What could be new.
The description of the curious cunningly constructed Breastplate of judgment was essentially set in stone when Moses set down the ancient tale of Genesis into writing @ 1362BC.

Theology, on the other hand, is rather new, by comparison since the Jews had to re-construct and remember everything from 516BC forward, having had the temple destroyed and all the artifacts removed by the Babylonians in 598BC.
We know that upon the return to Judea the priests still ad the Urim and Thummim available to them, but that device inside the Breastplate disappeaed along with ay theory whatsoever that describes it.

The use of the term "new" seems strange when actualky there is NOTHING at all, new or old about these devices.

What do can surmise, using a Theological Method similar in kind to the Scientific Method is that no way could 3 stones be arranged to form a square geometrically without some reasonable theory to support the facts we read in Exodus.


This rather mundane and clearly incorrect diagram passed down through the ages to us, illustrates the rectangular form usually presented, an arrangement obviously at odds with the bible: