The Message could not be adapted to your terminal
posted by Matt @ 12:20 AM
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skubalon
::rubbish::
4.28.2008
About Me
- Name: Matt
- Location: Bolivar, Missouri, United States
Politically conservative...religiously, not so much... I think dancing is ok (even though I don't), and drinking too (as long as you don't get drunk). Going to the movies isn't a sin, and Baptists aren't God's favorite Christians. Church is more than Sunday mornings and it's not a contest to see who can dress the nicest. God doesn't exist simply to do us the favor of forgiving our sins; life has meaning and purpose and should be full of joy and love, not just the mundane. People matter more than trees, animals, or the atmosphere, but God created it all and made us stewards of it. Babies ARE human from the point of conception. Jesus did die for all people, but only for those who accept his sacrifice. America doesn't own a monopoly on Christianity, God, or Jesus, and our form of Christianity is not always right nor the best. Persecution is more about dying for our faith than being rejected by our non-Christian friends. Sin is a big deal, we all have it, and God hates it, but that doesn't give us a right to judge others whose sin looks "worse" or "greater" than ours. "Getting saved" isn't all there is to following Christ; "stumbling after Christ" is more like it.
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Brother, thank you for your thoughts. And I know all the arguments (the HGE crisis as you so delicately put it did enlighten me a little), the problem is how the enemy makes them seem so much bigger.
One thing that I hope to study over the next couple months (since I have nothing else to do with my time other than work) is to read some commentaries on 1st c. (and later) uses of the Heb scriptures and how they interpreted them. B/c they are different. But possibly not "wrong" per se. For my Acts class last year, I wrote a paper (a kind of exegetical/research hybrid) on Luke's use of the OT in Acts. I read several books on 1st c. hermeneutics and they helped. I wish I could get my hands on them again b/c I think it would be helpful for me to refresh my mind.
It doesn't help that I'm completely ego/ethno-centric ("21st century American girl! Hair toss!") and think that they were obliterating the original texts and that's just not ok. Maybe I ought to read that book that Reeves suggested oh-so-long ago - the one about 1st c. life and culture. I need to give that one a go as well.
I'm finishing "Surprised by Hope" today. Then Mom's reading it. Then I'm passing it to her pastor. Good book. Man, I love NT Wright. =)
Finally, thank you for making "hermeneutic" a verb; that's long overdue. =)
Love ya!
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