I refuse to remove the landmarks

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Aquila

A landmark was a landmark. Please review the following post...it was biblically accurate.



Here's the actual verse...

Proverbs 23:10
10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

What we see here is that we have drifted from what the Bible is actually talking about in context because preachers have tried to "sermonize" on a word. If we drift away from what the Bible is actually addressing we'll argue over it until Jesus comes back because it's up to subjective opinion. However, if we keep it strictly within it's biblical context we can actually know the Bible and know what it was actually addressing.

Let's look at Paul's hermeneutics.

2 Cor 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Wow!! Who would have had the insight that Paul did to figure out that God gave this to Moses to also be instructive to us when it comes to those who minister of the gospel?

Let's look at the dictionary.

land⋅mark   /ˈlændˌmɑrk/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [land-mahrk] Show IPA
–noun 1. a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, esp. to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
2. something used to mark the boundary of land.
3. a building or other place that is of outstanding historical, aesthetic, or cultural importance, often declared as such and given a special status (landmark designation), ordaining its preservation, by some authorizing organization.
4. a significant or historic event, juncture, achievement, etc.: The court decision stands as a landmark in constitutional law.

–verb (used with object) 5. to declare (a building, site, etc.) a landmark: a movement to landmark New York's older theaters.


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Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE landmearc. See land, mark 1


Synonyms:
4. milestone, watershed, benchmark. From Dictionary.com

I take it you don't find it appropriate to use figures of speech like metaphors and the like to find principles and instructions from the OT that can be applied to us today? Would you consider this adding to the word of God?