Lesson 4 | Support by Contrary Statement
What We’ve Learned
That’s it! You have learned all 18 logical relationships. Now you are poised to start re-constructing biblical arguments piece by piece—thinking God’s thoughts after him.
What We Now Know
- In contrary relationships, one proposition rubs against the other, and in this strange way supports the other
- There are two contrary relationships:
- Concessive — one statement stands despite a potential objection against it
- Situation-Response — one statement is the surprising or counter-intuitive response to an event in the other
- Concessive and Situation-Response need to be distinguished
- A Concessive is a logic-oriented relationship
- Situation-Response is an event-oriented relationship
- On Biblearc, restatement relationships are represented by the color orange
What We Don’t Know Yet
We don’t yet know how to “bracket” or “arc” an entire passage, yet we have learned how to do so at the sentence level. (Did you notice the concessive in that sentence?)
But what is a passage but a composition of sentences? If we understand Bible logic at the sentence level, what keeps us from connecting those sentences, followed by passages, and even whole books? What's to keep us from tracing the logic of the entire Bible?!
As in many video games, it is always encouraging to reach a checkpoint. You have arrived at a goal; the feeling of accomplishment is radiating all around you. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and all is well. But remember, this is only a checkpoint, we must traverse a great many of these before we can beat the big bad guy and win the game. In the final lesson of Bible Logic, we will give you a little taste of where to go from here—Bracketing an entire passage of Scripture.
