LessonsCreed Casebook: Claims, Principles and Sound JudgmentsQuiz

Scenario: A person rejects the Ascension solely because ordinary human travel could not take place under such conditions.

Governing principle: The Ascension is affirmed on established prophetic teaching; an exceptional miracle cannot be confined to ordinary expectations.

Sound application: Affirm the Ascension as a miraculous event rather than equating it with ordinary travel.

Limit of the conclusion: Affirming a miraculous event does not authorize inventing details about aspects revelation leaves unspecified.

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The Ascension and limits of analogy

Creed Casebook: Claims, Principles and Sound Judgments

Scenario: A person rejects the Ascension solely because ordinary human travel could not take place under such conditions.

Governing principle: The Ascension is affirmed on established prophetic teaching; an exceptional miracle cannot be confined to ordinary expectations.

Sound application: Affirm the Ascension as a miraculous event rather than equating it with ordinary travel.

Limit of the conclusion: Affirming a miraculous event does not authorize inventing details about aspects revelation leaves unspecified.