Nice ditty. Don’t have time for all the rabbit holes any more. “Rightly dividing” in itself seems to have gone cancerous. Writin your own bible [ a book without words ]
Agreed, and I've found in my experience that it is dramatically simpler than the theological frameworks and traditions of the institutional church. The truth is as simple as a mustard seed and as complex as all creation, it is only the resolution that changes. Much to say on that topic, the iniquity of the Western Church is monumental
Agree about laziness regarding the old testament, and I find in many cases it's worse: they don't study the OT either because they have a liberal view which discards it (God is a mean ogre view) or because it invalidates their doctrine. Yet Jesus and the entire new covenant is entirely based on the old and can't exist without it: Jesus quoted extensively from the OT and was prophesied therefrom, but many, many people and heresies want Jesus in a vacuum which robs Him of all meaning
I'll look at your essays. It's a bit like how nowadays so many abhor the death penalty, yet the alternative is theoretically a crueler punishment: lifelong imprisonment and oppression, while the reality is that it's a pretty decent life for many and on the taxpayer's dime. We spend more money on the bizarre English Puritan form of punishment (prison) than we do on helping any regular individual, all in the name of "not being cruel", while it is extremely cruel only to decent people but not to the lifelong criminal. The basis of the idea is for the criminal to repent and reform, yet the system is generally not set up to aid in that process and the ex-con label is like a permanent brand on the "reformed" preventing reintegration into society. I think on how much simpler it would be to simply put the heinous offenders to death and give a simple punishment that's over and done for most others: lashes, the pillory, etc. instead of the mess we consider "humane"
Nice ditty. Don’t have time for all the rabbit holes any more. “Rightly dividing” in itself seems to have gone cancerous. Writin your own bible [ a book without words ]
should be a process of studying what is past and applying it to our situation.
Agreed, and I've found in my experience that it is dramatically simpler than the theological frameworks and traditions of the institutional church. The truth is as simple as a mustard seed and as complex as all creation, it is only the resolution that changes. Much to say on that topic, the iniquity of the Western Church is monumental
Agree about laziness regarding the old testament, and I find in many cases it's worse: they don't study the OT either because they have a liberal view which discards it (God is a mean ogre view) or because it invalidates their doctrine. Yet Jesus and the entire new covenant is entirely based on the old and can't exist without it: Jesus quoted extensively from the OT and was prophesied therefrom, but many, many people and heresies want Jesus in a vacuum which robs Him of all meaning
I'll look at your essays. It's a bit like how nowadays so many abhor the death penalty, yet the alternative is theoretically a crueler punishment: lifelong imprisonment and oppression, while the reality is that it's a pretty decent life for many and on the taxpayer's dime. We spend more money on the bizarre English Puritan form of punishment (prison) than we do on helping any regular individual, all in the name of "not being cruel", while it is extremely cruel only to decent people but not to the lifelong criminal. The basis of the idea is for the criminal to repent and reform, yet the system is generally not set up to aid in that process and the ex-con label is like a permanent brand on the "reformed" preventing reintegration into society. I think on how much simpler it would be to simply put the heinous offenders to death and give a simple punishment that's over and done for most others: lashes, the pillory, etc. instead of the mess we consider "humane"