Quote:
Originally Posted by OBW
Yes. ZNP did raise the question. And a rather weird one at that. So you tack onto an off-the-wall question with he response you gave to Unto. It does not relate to answering ZNP's question, but to griping about the limits being put on the out-of-bounds discussions you tend toward.
In that context, my read of your "you don't know what I believe and you don't want to know" is an attempt to "allow" the off-topic discussion because you meet the criteria of being ex-LCer and believe something different.
We don't want discussions about the belief in some different god. Even one that is a complained-away "different" God of the Bible. It is one thing to discuss how it is hard to reconcile the two sides when looked at through a lens of "God is love" or something like that. But to take on the kind postmodern argument that requires a completely new "read" after 2,000+ years of understanding to the contrary. . . . Let's just say that the position is one that makes us God and the God of the Bible into a naughty student. No sense that it is impossible to have righteous indignation at the actions of the God that defines righteousness.
|
Keep in mind you have made this statement without knowing what I have to say. That's called prejudice. You have mischaracterized what I might say without even knowing what it is. You're just guessing.
You seem to think that history of the church is 2000 years of coherent cohesive unified understanding? You apparently never heard of the anabaptists or the reformation, the inquisition, or the Enlightenment.
History has always been a crucible of ideas. The 21st century is no exception.
You just want to pull the covers over your head and comfort yourself with your old school fundamentalism. Since you left the LRC it seems you have gone backwards.
Don't worry, I'm playing by the rules here. I won't push the envelope. I'll stick strictly to the rules. I know how to be a fundamentalist. No one kicked me out of the Local Church. I walked the straight and narrow the whole time I was there and walked away by my own choice. I will follow the rules here to the letter. That's what I intend to do here.
ZNP shared this idea about Job before and got little support then as he probably will now. I don't see what he sees there myself, but kudos to him for sticking to his guns about what he sees there. As far as I can tell he hasn't broken any of the LCD rules, so he is free to hold his interpretation. Right?