tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553799694247296931.post3465390095761240706..comments2023-04-03T05:32:23.561-05:00Comments on DairyStateDad: Mainline Christians vs. Biblical LiteralistsDairyStateDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100373589936758473noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553799694247296931.post-76006955421033727242010-10-29T04:45:35.433-05:002010-10-29T04:45:35.433-05:00Here's an alternative link for the one at the ...Here's an alternative link for the one at the end of the above post, which no longer works.<br /><br />http://www.cbcpnews.com/?q=node/4224DairyStateDadhttp://dairystatedad.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553799694247296931.post-69260920745206289232009-11-01T07:09:49.443-06:002009-11-01T07:09:49.443-06:00"For some mainliners, the literalist mindset ..."For some mainliners, the literalist mindset may actually be fairly far out of their current everyday experience, and therefore something they don't feel a need to confront at all."<br /><br />I have a handy test, ripped from my real life, to measure this:<br /><br />On my last visit to my in-laws, I noted their current reading included two books. Next to each other were one on young earth creationism and one on evolution from a Christian perspective. They are reading both seriously.<br /><br />Where in the spectrum of belief here in the South do you think they fall?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553799694247296931.post-11591028713987000592009-10-30T17:40:30.314-05:002009-10-30T17:40:30.314-05:00I personally feel sorry for anyone who is not open...I personally feel sorry for anyone who is not open enough to interesting ideas that they refuse to read Borg and Crossan .... and Ched Myers. These new style biblical scholars take so seriously the message of love and how it can make a difference in the world, as shown in the life of Jesus, that they are willing to look again at the writings and come at them with fresh eyes. To decide the Jesus story is evil - simply because the writings about him by his fans, printed after his death, are not 100% - is sad and in the end not helpful to understanding what humanity can do to make a better world. - Sis to DMD ;o))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553799694247296931.post-77012441151973419832009-10-30T13:39:06.806-05:002009-10-30T13:39:06.806-05:00I have just finished reading the first chapter of ...I have just finished reading the first chapter of "Jesus, Interrupted" and was disappointed that so early on he admits to agnosticism. I think he loses quite a bit of his audience right there. He went to Moody in Chicago for goodness sake! I could not help but think of Emily Dickinson's words: "the abdication of belief makes the behaviour small--better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all."<br /><br />As someone has posted on ChaliceChick's blog perhaps the selection of panelists could have been a little more balanced.Mickbichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219995234630216502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553799694247296931.post-86939227579866172682009-10-30T11:10:09.785-05:002009-10-30T11:10:09.785-05:00Anon 7:10 AM:
I've been interested in reading...Anon 7:10 AM:<br /><br />I've been interested in reading some of Ehrman at some point... just haven't gotten to him yet. As for Jesus v. Paul, for what it's worth, in "The First Paul," Borg & Crossan make the case that Genuine Paul, who wrote something like 7 (+ or -) of the letters attributed to him in fact is in sync w/ Jesus, in contrast to the suspect Pauline letters (whose provenance is doubtful) and the definitely NOT Pauline letters, which flatly contradict Genuine Paul in places...DairyStateDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09100373589936758473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553799694247296931.post-72959824601272626742009-10-30T07:10:32.400-05:002009-10-30T07:10:32.400-05:00I just finished reading "Jesus, Interrupted&q...I just finished reading "Jesus, Interrupted" by Bart Ehrman. He says that most Christians read the Bible reverently whereas they might want to read it critically. In the book, Ehrman points out many important points of disagreements among the gospels as well as points upon which Jesus and Paul are diametrically opposed to each other.<br /><br />Ehrman is a professor of religious studies at NC State in Chapel Hill, NC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553799694247296931.post-38604348403277657942009-10-30T05:09:58.371-05:002009-10-30T05:09:58.371-05:00Furthermore, a large number of Evangelicals are no...Furthermore, a large number of Evangelicals are not literalists or fundametalists. Especially those who remain within the mainline denoms. (No, Southern Baptists are not "mainline" in the sense of being in direct descent from one of the three "main lines" of the Reformation -- Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed.) And many Christians take some parts of the Bible more literally than others. For example, they may think it is necessary to believe literally in the Virgin Birth in order to properly understand the Vicarious Atonement, but they don't also believe in a literal six-day creation, and may be perfectly willing to consider that what Paul experienced on the road to Damascus was some sort of hallucination or seizure.faustohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08858053354116695746noreply@blogger.com