Friday, January 27, 2006
Life's Tragedies; From Theory to Reality
Here in the blogosphere it easy to talk about faith and life's tragedies in a theoretical sense; but for the people living through tragedy, theory lacks value:
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LAKE BUTLER, Florida (AP) -- Barbara and Terry Mann were supposed to complete their adoption of a 20-month-old boy on Thursday. Instead, they were planning funerals for him and their other four children -- all killed in a fiery car wreck.I am thankful to learn from this article that several had invited Jesus into their lives (What does that mean?). While this may assuage the grieve slightly, nonetheless, this is an example of an opportunity for the church (universally speaking) to be relevant in facing tough issues about life's tragedies together.
The accident Wednesday, which also killed two young relatives, cast a pall over this small town of about 2,000 people in northern Florida. After hearing of the accident, Barbara Mann's grief-stricken father suffered a heart attack and died.
"It's hard to fathom what it's like to lose five children, two nieces and a father in one shot. It seems like a burden too big to bear (cite).
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In other words, "let's take advantage of an incalcuable human loss to prosletyze some people who are out of their right minds with grief and therefor vulnerable."
If your faith actually offered a message of hope, instead of slavery and fear, it wouldn't be such a bad thing. You could argue it was in their best interest. But the fundamentalist obession with "saving souls" at any cost is truly obscene to observe in action.
If your faith actually offered a message of hope, instead of slavery and fear, it wouldn't be such a bad thing. You could argue it was in their best interest. But the fundamentalist obession with "saving souls" at any cost is truly obscene to observe in action.
I'd like you to point out to the readers the specific words written that mean, ""let's take advantage of an incalcuable human loss to prosletyze some people who are out of their right minds with grief and therefor vulnerable."
erica, you should meet jesus before you start making statements like you know him.
# posted by 
: 8:26 PM
: 8:26 PM
there is no doubt he existed. now he was either what he said (God), a liar, or a lunatic.
I choose option a.
I can't say he was just a moral teacher because that would make him a liar.
If he was a lunatic, then why aren't his teachings more ridiculous.
I choose option a.
I can't say he was just a moral teacher because that would make him a liar.
If he was a lunatic, then why aren't his teachings more ridiculous.
# posted by : 5:00 PM
: 5:00 PM
erica, I think I'm pretty generous in permitting comments; but i'm going to retain the right to delete your comments when i view them as unsubstantive or offensive.
there is no doubt he existed. now he was either what he said (God), a liar, or a lunatic.
Or, he said nothing of the sort. After all if you're prepared to entertain the possibility of a non-divine Jesus, as you just did above, then there's no reason to consider the Bible as some kind of supernatural transmission of the words of Jesus. If Jesus actually never claimed to be God, then your whole trichotomy kind of falls flat.
But then that's what you get for relying on C.S. Lewis, the worst theologian in the past 300 years.
Or, he said nothing of the sort. After all if you're prepared to entertain the possibility of a non-divine Jesus, as you just did above, then there's no reason to consider the Bible as some kind of supernatural transmission of the words of Jesus. If Jesus actually never claimed to be God, then your whole trichotomy kind of falls flat.
But then that's what you get for relying on C.S. Lewis, the worst theologian in the past 300 years.
who are you to judge on the value of a theologian? that's like me commenting on how great menstral cycles are.
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