group) validation of our subjective perspective leads to disagreements and clashes. Shared understanding becomes difficult, and mutual goodwill is taxed to the limit, with competing claims vying for recognition. All of which is to say that we should be alert to the pitfall of submitting Scripture to a metaphysic that is foreign to its basic teaching. It should also be clear, therefore, that if I am convinced that Christian Platonism is no such submission, I will have to make a positive case for it.