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Does it have to be an either-or? Is there no middle ground here? Are they a dichotomy or a is there a continuum linking them? Or has Christianity, like the politics of some developed countries, become too highly polarized for the middle to matter?
 
revjohn said:
Did not read the article until after my post. Could have saved some time had it been posted earlier.

Oh well, no good idea can be so good that it ought not be repeated.
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Didn't come across and read the article until later.
 
I'm sure God can see through all of this, just think about everything that He has observed since time began.
 
Mendalla said:
Does it have to be an either-or?
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No it does not have to be either/or. Apart from that there are many who will insist it must be either or. They cannot see that a Christian spectrum starts with liberal and runs to conservative. They mistakenly believe that the spectrum of Truth begins with Christian and runs to conservative or liberal (depends on who is setting up the spectrum which becomes the opposite of Christian)

Mendalla said:
Is there no middle ground here?
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There certainly is middle ground. It is never allowed to be recognized as a real possibility. Depending on who is describing the spectrum the middle ground is a sliding scale of not liberal/conservative enough to be Christian or much to liberal/conservative to be considered Christian.

Mendalla said:
Are they a dichotomy or a is there a continuum linking them?
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No real dichotomy so much as confused continuum.

Mendalla said:
Or has Christianity, like the politics of some developed countries, become too highly polarized for the middle to matter?
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As a whole, no. There are places that get a lot of attention (primarily the US) which appear hopelessly enmeshed in partisanship that nothing, including Christianity, can escape.
 
There is Tillich's sense of total versus totality of God (integral or just a' simulative impression from a mortal perspective of being where we're at?) when considering the essence or the existence or existence of what the word God means. Do we find further development of the thought an institution or worthy of becoming a beaut of dialectic? Some can't see the booty there as too filmy and non-existent. They must be hung up on the meaning thereof.

The semi nature of free will, inclusive of meaning and understanding leaves some sense of divine schism when the essence is projected into existence ... and thus chaos over to go with conserving the liberality ... or liberating the preservatives! Do only the means as duns scotus gather? Virtue of being flat out on the Moor with all the uplands and downs ... plus the heathery attribute supporting flight of thought.

Since some will always stand by politic (extremes) ... does there need to be tacky glo'os for affinity? NOSH ite ... or chew over that sprout while walking about a pool of words that are not really well understood due to the fates of life (spin, weave, and snip) that can lead to reassembly of what we were conditioned to a' priori ... by other facts that didn't understand any better than we ... thus life is chaotic .... because we don't know much!

As said in that medieval Baptist document ... "read between the lines" (diffusive lens) where love of wisdom was hid from those that didn't wish to know ... leading to the creation of Eire myths ... sometimes misspelt as Aaron out of the rye Aamon ... an archaic word for Gods-ole ... with a mind for loving adventure ... a mystic seaport could give rise to a huge myth about a blanched critter ... turned inside-out and rendered ... fat't issue for a flame? Spectra on the curiosity could reveal a pile ...
 
The rift, or schism allows room for the means an mediums to regress ... as in this degree of the stretch ... fill will reins ... thus the Shadow out of Africa as a icon of the darkness and what we know not!

How does one get beyond the unknown? Tis a dash ... perhaps some "season" suggestive of a rush ... IDe'll pas ...
 
Seeler said:
I noticed this post earlier in the week but waited to read the blog until I had time to read and contemplate - I always get a lot out of Steve's blogs.
So today I read this thought-provoking reflection on terrorism, triggered by the attack in Manchester where so many young people were killed or injured. It's called terrorism because it is meant to invoke fear - terror that paralizes the ability to think anything but fear, hatred, revenge.
But in the days that followed, as news came out, I looked for the helpers. And there were many.
Two homeless men who were among the first to respond. Instead of running for their lives, they ran forward and rendered first aid and comfort to the injured and dying.
A taxi-driver interviewed on the news told of the taxis arriving at the scene offering free services to drive the frightened and confused young people home - and it was revealed that this taxi driver, and no doubt others, was Muslim.
A woman who gathered 30 or so young people around her and took them to a safe spot (I believe a hotel) where they could try to contact their parents.
And the many others who opened their homes and hearts to the victims until order could be restored.

I looked for other comments on this week's blog, but instead I found post after post about speaking in tongues. What gives? Surely the actions of many good people on this horrible night are more important and show more love than a gift of tongues.
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I agree, but you know how threads go sometimes. This subject of terrorism probably requires a dedicated post to the subject.
I also heard that the young man who did this was concerned about Muslim children being bombed in other countries and that is why he did this....not justifiable, but we should really start looking at our own part that we play in terrorizing people.
 
Do people seized with overwhelming terror ... use logic, or Logos? Yet still there is an institution devoted to fear, anger and hatred to drive completion ... that may appear in mind as conflict ...
 
revjohn said:
Is this offered as a credible definition of liberal Christian theology or as an example of the stereotype?
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I don't know that it's presented as either one John. I found the article rather strange to be honest about it. To suggest that liberal Christians aren't Christians at all is just bizarre if you ask me.
 
Jae said:
The opinion of GotQuestions.org...

What is liberal Christian theology?
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I read the first line "In liberal Christian teaching, which is not Christian at all, man’s reason is stressed and is treated as the final authority."
This is so bigoted, and so far from any understanding of liberal Christian theology, that I couldn't waste my time reading further. There is no room for discussion or exploring together. Who decides it is not Christian? Who says that man's reason is treated as the final authority? Obviously someone who doesn't know what he is talking about.
 
Seeler said:
I read the first line "In liberal Christian teaching, which is not Christian at all, man’s reason is stressed and is treated as the final authority."
This is so bigoted, and so far from any understanding of liberal Christian theology, that I couldn't waste my time reading further. There is no room for discussion or exploring together. Who decides it is not Christian? Who says that man's reason is treated as the final authority? Obviously someone who doesn't know what he is talking about.
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Simply the divide of black and white without the grey matter as a twilight zone ... brae in f (arts) a function of legacy of further creation!
 
Seeler said:
I read the first line "In liberal Christian teaching, which is not Christian at all, man’s reason is stressed and is treated as the final authority."
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More hypocritical than bigoted I think.

I mean, it is likely a man who wrote the article and this is the result of his reasoning.
 
revjohn said:
More hypocritical than bigoted I think.

I mean, it is likely a man who wrote the article and this is the result of his reasoning.
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Thus the taut sense in tautological immaterial direction .. tis a mere essence ... kind like a myst in your aspirations ... or if a concern of spirit ... an'st?

These can get into pan'tz Eire divisions and cause moves appearing as dynamic ... and then one is said to be essentially out-of-here ... and fringe like thoughts of love ... is love-thought a contradiction for those helplessly learning to hate?

When talking of things of contrasting essence and existential value ... should there be a code attachment like $ signs for the high and c for the community of po' phoqah ... thus cents transform into HEH who paid the bride price and fails as a free man ... it was easy as the lady at the head of the deep well was wise ... and knew the deeps ... that void state of mind that puts men to rest? The myth is contextual ... and love as God remains a myth in a place of hate ... should we move now ?
 
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You did know that antes is a equivocation over metaphor ... but still referring to the primary dynamic of Eire in thought?

As rise'n phoenix it could be a phonetic emblazoned ... flat out! Pyre is like that ... haute ...

I learned to talk this way (and thus it was rot) from James Joies and Tillich ... because of the teaching against loving learning in my church as a child .. so I learned the cover-up code ... talk to that lady ... pistes Sophia ... but you have to believe she's out there for Ur to underscore god's thoughts ... thus the subliminal consideration about no worries! A concern bought on in church by taut helplessness about knowledge? Tis a tight spot to get into ... metaphorical-like unless you have options! Can you get an option on an admonition for lost thinking ... as thinking men are hated by brutes ... a force to be reckoned ... with, of, through, under, or even behind if the thoughts lag ... thus the as sis state ... hind-brain? Some use the nominal Shadow labeling ... it follows ... you implicit woman watches! This could be incubus or succubus depending on cults and sects of psyche ... it too is diverse in the overhead mob ... weal NG about in de brae in ... purely just as thought! Not real ...

Thus the demi urge to slip away hommoe (an old Greek word for common as Johns in the biblical tongues) Jay Zus could that be right, or just au gauche? What remains of the brain is just a spot ...
 
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Spots in the fabric are detested by the mob ... but composed with soot and a few other odd components can aid the gnomon, that po' boy that sets the type in the Gutenberg press ... as the chore was ... a parallel state of mine to an English deckhand ... who learned about Cristobel first hand at an early watch. The observation of the mourning star who wailed over the loss of rest period ... a dark state also marked as the Shadow as it turns in the mystical dance .. a time and place where you loose it. Loose what? That's questionable when in a learned stated of helplessness about dark thoughts .. thanks to Barbara and GEO ... on the analogy of the Shadow ... the sub conscience state of mine d' ... enlightened we're Dais 'd ...
 
I agree with you, but how does this translate to the many families in Syria who have watched their families being butchered on a continuous basis? I quite frankly would find this story empty in some regards if I were in the midst of these atrocities. How does one speak to this?
 
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