tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post8592398368759253233..comments2023-08-19T01:00:21.479-07:00Comments on Love. Learning. Liberty.: Stumbled upon the blog: Cognitive Discopantsshadowspringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172112981244682382noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-47916755286848204602011-10-05T08:07:35.931-07:002011-10-05T08:07:35.931-07:00I highly recommend "The Inescapable Love of G...I highly recommend "The Inescapable Love of God" by Talbot. It will change the way you read the Bible, in a good way. Suddenly there is a reason for loving your neighbor as yourself, loving your enemy, forgiving all wrongs, understanding how every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God. Even the destruction of death and hell in Revolutions means something else: no more need for correction, no more end to life. Awesome. A God worth loving, because He first loves us. All of us. All the time. Too cool.shadowspringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15172112981244682382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-80631943314588309992011-10-04T20:53:20.370-07:002011-10-04T20:53:20.370-07:00I'm also pretty convinced that the universalis...I'm also pretty convinced that the universalist reading is the true one... or at least I want with all my heart for it to be true, and a lot of the evidence seems to line up with that theory.Hypatiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16753690091825424985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-18130307437937852132011-10-04T14:11:43.540-07:002011-10-04T14:11:43.540-07:00big thumbs-up!big thumbs-up!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04332778549254318293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-21504852385411790252011-09-23T20:23:21.211-07:002011-09-23T20:23:21.211-07:00WOOOW!!!! Yes yes yes! I am so with you on this!
A...WOOOW!!!! Yes yes yes! I am so with you on this!<br />After years in religion and under that ONE interpretation of Scripture, I see it all so differently as well. Beautiful post! Thankyou for all you shared...:)Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046924507335607146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-492425435897814632011-09-23T19:28:55.767-07:002011-09-23T19:28:55.767-07:00Thanks for stopping by the blog. One thing I love ...Thanks for stopping by the blog. One thing I love about the biblio-blogging community is the freedom to explore different (and maybe better) answers to the questions we struggle with. It's an opportunity that is rarely afforded in many churches (mine included). Thanks for the nod :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-4956296014866526782011-09-23T12:38:53.669-07:002011-09-23T12:38:53.669-07:00You go girl! Keep speaking the truth! Woohoo!
I...You go girl! Keep speaking the truth! Woohoo!<br /><br />I've thought of the religion-in-bed-with-politics scandal as relatively recent, but it's amazing to see throughout history the same exact religious "biblical" (not) diatribes being thrown at believers who stood up for: An end to slavery. Suffrage. Civil rights. Even an earth that revolves around the sun!<br /><br />I wonder if your pastor is expressing his disapproval to other congregants who fill their blogs with mouth-watering dessert recipes and shove photos in albums instead of exercising... what about the sin of gluttony? Aren't they at least contributing to it? Shouldn't they be admonishing their overweight friends to pick up a carrot stick?<br /><br />And I hope he is doing something about getting those beer-bellied pastors out of the pulpit; we may love and welcome them to church, but we sure shouldn't ORDAIN them, that totally goes against scripture.<br /><br />Speaking of scriptural marriages, has your husband located any sister wives for you yet? Because as I recall, polygamy was never officially struck down, and was originally the will of God. Have to keep things the same as they were in ancient times and not give in to cultural pressures when it comes to marriage, you know.<br /><br />Oh well. It's a lot easier to exclude people from a group than to remember EVERY one is a personal creation of God, and treat them accordingly.Final Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-41088465995044882922011-09-23T07:36:35.607-07:002011-09-23T07:36:35.607-07:00And according to the preacher here:
http://www.yo...And according to the preacher here:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfT9AZckHjY&feature=player_embedded<br /><br />That makes me a follower of the anti-Christ.<br /><br />0.0<br /><br />Seriously, move over Catholic church, Islam, and President Obama. People who honor Jesus as Lord, as the Only Wise God who never fails, we are the anti-Christ now.<br /><br />Unbelievable.shadowspringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15172112981244682382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-68058681632159512332011-09-23T07:26:27.421-07:002011-09-23T07:26:27.421-07:00Ha! Another comment from myself. Lolz.
I believe ...Ha! Another comment from myself. Lolz.<br /><br />I believe Jesus accomplishes His will in the earth, and on heaven, and in all of creation. I believe that no created thing is capable of resisting forever the wooing of our incredibly amazingly Good, Holy and Loving God.<br /><br />He is <i>that</i> good.shadowspringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15172112981244682382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802896743878321184.post-64137853672725818112011-09-23T07:14:57.835-07:002011-09-23T07:14:57.835-07:00" I wonder what label he would give me if he ..." I wonder what label he would give me if he knew- AFTER YEARS OF STUDYING SCRIPTURE AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY- that I was embracing the universalist reading of the Bible as the most accurate? "<br /><br />I already know, I'm afraid. The answer will be that I am denying scripture, when I am doing no such thing. I am denying the doctrine of eternal damnation has enough scriptural support to make it a mainstay of Christianity. I am denying that the character of God and the preponderance of scripture support the theory of eternal damnation. I am not denying that any scriptural support at all can be found to believe in hell; I am saying once you stop reading the Bible with the exlusionary lens on it makes a lot more sense with itself, there is LESS contradiction.<br /><br />For example (one of many) why did Paul say that, along with love and faith, hope was an eternal enduring possibility? If you have what you were hoping for, you don't have hope anymore, you have fulfullment of your former hope. So people reconciled to God in joy have no need of hope. And if all the people who did not become Christians in this life are eternally damned, they have no hope either.<br /><br />What is the need then of this eternal hope about which Paul writes? One of many verses that start to make sense when reading scripture through an inclusionary, rather than exclusionary, lens.shadowspringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15172112981244682382noreply@blogger.com