Br. Torstensson, thanks for your use of freedom of speech sharing with us your view point about these 25 statements Elder Wilson shared with the whole SDAC. In point 21, chosen as a sample among all of them you say: " Hold fast to the idea that no method of hermeneutics is divine . One preferred method might be approved by the church, but the Word of God can handle various attempts at interpretation without losing its power to change lives. Keeping only one perspective robs us of the beauty and richness of biblical interpretations."
Seen with critical eyes and critical mind, it is logical and reasonable.
But I would like to ask: Is it that God has many different truths, even that one is contradictory with another? If it were so, Jesus himself would be wrong when He says: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32); “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6) and “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17).
According to the plain and simple literal reading of Jesus words, there is no choice, we get to the conclussion that TRUTH DO EXIST, THAT TRUTH IS AVAILABLE, it is not hindered wrapped in darkness and complete misterious, and that there is ONE WAY TO REACH IT WHEN WE YIELD TO THE GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY INSPIRED WORD OF GOD.
We must not forget the inspired words from Peter: “We have also a MORE SURE WORD of prophecy; whereunto YE DO WELL THAT TAKE HEED, as unto a LIGHT THAT SHINETH in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of ANY PRIVATE INTERPRETATION.” (2 Peter 1:19,20).
The Bible is explained by itself.
It is good to search in the complexity of labyrinths of Phylosophy or Theology [like Calvinism or Arminianism], in the thought of the German High Crticism, or in the foundation of Atheism, BUT we never should forget the NORTH guided by the compass, or the GPS, we should ask the Holy Spirit to open our MINDS and HEARTS not TO BE DECEIVED, and that all the knowledge we may get after studying deeply all those subject may be useful to us to BE ABLE TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, AND BETWEEN THE HOLY TRUTH AND THE LOT OF LIES THE DEVIL HAS PLANTED ALONG THE ROAD.
Otherwise we may be in the worst part of the following text: “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.” (Eccles. 7:29). God bless you Br. Torstensson, also Elder Wilson and all the SDAC.