Comments on: Book Review: The Disappearance of God http://icrucified.com/icruciblog/archives/1007 Pressing on to be like Jesus (1 Jn. 2:6) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jeff http://icrucified.com/icruciblog/archives/1007/comment-page-1#comment-1653 jeff Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:51:22 +0000 http://icrucified.com/icruciblog/?p=1007#comment-1653 No need to apologize brother, we are on the same page. I often wonder what the church-Church would look like if we stopped drawing man-made boundaries and just got about the business of following Jesus and loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength...then extending that to loving our neighbor as ourself. The kind of stuff that gets spewed out of these types of books indicates that not all of the heart, mind, soul, and strength is aimed at Jesus. But then again...that's just my opinion. Agape to you my friend! No need to apologize brother, we are on the same page. I often wonder what the church-Church would look like if we stopped drawing man-made boundaries and just got about the business of following Jesus and loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength…then extending that to loving our neighbor as ourself. The kind of stuff that gets spewed out of these types of books indicates that not all of the heart, mind, soul, and strength is aimed at Jesus. But then again…that’s just my opinion.
Agape to you my friend!

]]> By: Nate http://icrucified.com/icruciblog/archives/1007/comment-page-1#comment-1652 Nate Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:20:48 +0000 http://icrucified.com/icruciblog/?p=1007#comment-1652 “More faulty information about God swirls around us today than ever before. No wonder so many followers of Christ are unsure of what they really believe in the face of the new spiritual openness attempting to alter unchanging truth.” Jeff, I identify with your reservations. The statement above seems to assume that the church (I am not sure which expression) has come to solidify her understanding of Truth, therefore rendering it "under attack" when questioned. Admittedly, I probably identify more with the postmodern suspicion of all truth-claims than do most Christians. Nevertheless, I do believe in Truth. Truth is divinity and humanity revealed in Jesus. Undoubtedly, when we confuse Truth (capital "T") with our interpretations, doctrinal positions, political persuasions, ideological beliefs, and even our religious views, such things are bound to experience the threat of deconstruction. For goodness sakes, THEY ARE NOT INERRANT! They are human attempts at wrapping our fallible minds around divinity, humanity, and the nature of the universe. I realize such talk can open a can of worms. But if it means anything at all, as you pointed out, the notion of Truth from a Western/modern paradigm is foreign to that of the ancient Hebrews, not to mention the Hellenistic world of the first century. I am sorry. I am a bit fed up with these claims that traditional Christian understandings of God are under attack. It is motivated by fear, thus beckoning the question "fear of what?" What are we trying to protect/contain? Certainly it is not God... “More faulty information about God swirls around us today than ever before. No wonder so many followers of Christ are unsure of what they really believe in the face of the new spiritual openness attempting to alter unchanging truth.”

Jeff, I identify with your reservations. The statement above seems to assume that the church (I am not sure which expression) has come to solidify her understanding of Truth, therefore rendering it “under attack” when questioned. Admittedly, I probably identify more with the postmodern suspicion of all truth-claims than do most Christians. Nevertheless, I do believe in Truth.

Truth is divinity and humanity revealed in Jesus. Undoubtedly, when we confuse Truth (capital “T”) with our interpretations, doctrinal positions, political persuasions, ideological beliefs, and even our religious views, such things are bound to experience the threat of deconstruction.

For goodness sakes, THEY ARE NOT INERRANT! They are human attempts at wrapping our fallible minds around divinity, humanity, and the nature of the universe. I realize such talk can open a can of worms. But if it means anything at all, as you pointed out, the notion of Truth from a Western/modern paradigm is foreign to that of the ancient Hebrews, not to mention the Hellenistic world of the first century.

I am sorry. I am a bit fed up with these claims that traditional Christian understandings of God are under attack. It is motivated by fear, thus beckoning the question “fear of what?” What are we trying to protect/contain?

Certainly it is not God…

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