[Biblemat] Request: Information on Necessary Inference

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Brother Stringer,

I have created a website which discusses Necessary Inference in some 
detail and gives many examples of its usage during the first century.
Three of the examples are from the life of Jesus, three are from the 
book of Acts and the rest of the examples are from Romans, Galatians and 
Hebrews.

You are probably aware of the example found in Christ's confrontation of 
the Sadducees when He used Necessary Inference to show that Exodus 
taught that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did not cease to exist when they 
died. (Mark 12:26, 27)

The following is excerpted from this website:

    How does necessary inference work? It first begins with a passage.
    For this example, let us consider Psalm 110:4.

    In this passage, God swears that the one mentioned in verse 1 as
    David's lord will be a priest forever after the order of
    Melchizedek. When this passage is combined with other passages
    pertaining to the Messiah such as Zechariah 6:13 and 2 Samuel 7:12,
    we discover that the Messiah was to be of the lineage of David and
    that He would be both King and Priest.

    Well this poses a problem. David was part of the tribe of Judah. The
    priests were descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses and were of
    the tribe of Levi. It was not lawful under the Law given at Mt.
    Sinai through Moses for a member of the tribe of Judah to be a priest.

    Furthermore, Psalm 110:4 does not say - a priest after the order of
    Aaron - but rather it says - "a priest after the order of Melchizedek.

    This meant that the Messiah's priesthood would not be based on
    Aaron's priesthood and that the Law would have to be changed in
    order for the Messiah of the tribe of Judah to lawfully be a priest.

    In fact this is exactly what the writer of the epistle to the
    Hebrews argues in Hebrews 7:11-16.

    The Hebrew writer bases his argument on a logical analysis of the
    consequences of Psalm 110:4.


James Shewmaker
Mableton, GA

P.S. I am looking to relocate. If you know of a church that supports 
sound doctrine which is seeking a preacher, please forward their contact 
info to me.


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