Comments on: With all due respect…. http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect ...dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: greg r http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-510232 greg r Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:42:00 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-510232 God hates steroids.....or GOD is on steroids ??? God hates steroids…..or GOD is on steroids ???

]]> By: Headless Unicorn Guy http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-508343 Headless Unicorn Guy Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:06:28 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-508343 "Scream of the Damned" sermon? “Scream of the Damned” sermon?

]]> By: Headless Unicorn Guy http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-508341 Headless Unicorn Guy Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:03:54 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-508341 Check the IMonk Archives. Probably search for "too god-centered" or some variant. I know IMonk has posted on the subject. Check the IMonk Archives. Probably search for “too god-centered” or some variant.

I know IMonk has posted on the subject.

]]> By: Headless Unicorn Guy http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-508138 Headless Unicorn Guy Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:23:34 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-508138 <i>….but then someone from the ELCA could say that the previous explanation is exactly what Satan wanted us to think! …. but then Piper could say that the previous line is exactly what Satan wanted us to think!</i> Now we're getting into Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory logic, where "AHA! That's What THEY Want Us to Think!" is normal when confronted by any dissonance and everything except the Truther is Part of The Vast Conspiracy. "THE DWARFS ARE FOR THE DWARFS! WE WON'T BE TAKEN IN!" ….but then someone from the ELCA could say that the previous explanation is exactly what Satan wanted us to think!

…. but then Piper could say that the previous line is exactly what Satan wanted us to think!

Now we’re getting into Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory logic, where “AHA! That’s What THEY Want Us to Think!” is normal when confronted by any dissonance and everything except the Truther is Part of The Vast Conspiracy. “THE DWARFS ARE FOR THE DWARFS! WE WON’T BE TAKEN IN!”

]]> By: Headless Unicorn Guy http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-508137 Headless Unicorn Guy Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:21:02 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-508137 Well, In <i>Scandal of the Evangelical Mind</i> there's this statement that YEC and Pre-Trib Rapture Eschatology tend to occur linked together. Why shouldn't "See? This Is God Punishing You!" also fit into the pattern? A lot of PreMil/PreTrib eschatology dwells on God's Punishments in Revelation with lip-smacking glee like some sort of Christianized violence-porn. (I know the Gospel According to Hal Lindsay I was exposed to in the Seventies sure did.) Well, In Scandal of the Evangelical Mind there’s this statement that YEC and Pre-Trib Rapture Eschatology tend to occur linked together. Why shouldn’t “See? This Is God Punishing You!” also fit into the pattern? A lot of PreMil/PreTrib eschatology dwells on God’s Punishments in Revelation with lip-smacking glee like some sort of Christianized violence-porn. (I know the Gospel According to Hal Lindsay I was exposed to in the Seventies sure did.)

]]> By: Headless Unicorn Guy http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-508136 Headless Unicorn Guy Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:16:42 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-508136 <i>And if someone is cured of cancer, God answers prayer, but if the next person in line dies of cancer, well, God, in his mercy, took him home.</i> Sounds like a win-win situation for a faith healer... And if someone is cured of cancer, God answers prayer, but if the next person in line dies of cancer, well, God, in his mercy, took him home.

Sounds like a win-win situation for a faith healer…

]]> By: Jason http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-507975 Jason Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:53:15 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-507975 How does one become "too God centered?" Isn't that the point. That whole, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength thing? How does one become “too God centered?” Isn’t that the point. That whole, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength thing?

]]> By: JoanieD http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-507974 JoanieD Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:01:42 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-507974 Nice post, Chaplain Mike. Nice post, Chaplain Mike.

]]> By: Gary http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-1#comment-507970 Gary Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:40:49 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-507970 Piper is using a tornado as an object lesson. He's not writing a systematic theology. Of course it's going to narrowly focus on one topic. Why is that a bad thing? What pastor in their right mind would explain the entire cousel of scripture in a single blogpost, and who would be patient enough to read it? No one. Piper is using a tornado as an object lesson. He’s not writing a systematic theology. Of course it’s going to narrowly focus on one topic. Why is that a bad thing? What pastor in their right mind would explain the entire cousel of scripture in a single blogpost, and who would be patient enough to read it? No one.

]]> By: paulms http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/with-all-due-respect/comment-page-2#comment-507969 paulms Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:37:10 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/?p=4215#comment-507969 You know, as far as the purpose of suffering goes, one can remember that when a lion kills a cow to eat, the cow suffers and dies and i would imagine is a bit unhappy about this. The lion however gets to eat and live another day. Gd "allows" the lion to die because the circle of life continues on and there is no need for Him, who set the circle up in the first place, to disrupt it. A person's death is a tragedy to them and those left behind, but perhaps part of the circle of life, and to Gd not a true tragedy worth bending the laws of space-time and physics to "fix". You know, as far as the purpose of suffering goes, one can remember that when a lion kills a cow to eat, the cow suffers and dies and i would imagine is a bit unhappy about this. The lion however gets to eat and live another day. Gd “allows” the lion to die because the circle of life continues on and there is no need for Him, who set the circle up in the first place, to disrupt it.

A person’s death is a tragedy to them and those left behind, but perhaps part of the circle of life, and to Gd not a true tragedy worth bending the laws of space-time and physics to “fix”.

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