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Originally Posted by aron
Safe, reasoned theology of thousands of years' precedent became cookie-cutter catch-phrases, some of it turned disastrous. At best it missed the beauty and depth of the revelation of Jesus Christ. At worst it brought ruin.
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I'm not sure what you are getting at with this little part, or if you maybe didn't quite say what you intended. I would say that even as cookie-cutter phrases, assuming they are underpinned with the reasoned theology of the thousands of years, it can't be too bad.
I think that wanting everyone to appreciate the "depth and beauty" of the revelation of Jesus Christ may be misinterpreting the real meaning of "beauty." Sort of like misunderstanding "joy" in the face of extreme hardship or love in the context of Lord of the universe and created being. I am not belittling these as irrelevant, but the past 200 or so years has seen love become more and more something romantic rather than solid and stable. Romantic is neither. It is subject to flights of fancy and voids when you just "can't get that feeling" again.
Like those guys said in their marriage seminars years ago. Love is a choice. Not a feeling or an experience. That is how arranged marriages work. They choose. We think we are choosing from long before marriage, but then continue to choose all the way to the divorce court because our choice is based on feelings and whimsy. Not on commitment to the choice made.