Comments on: Contradictions in the Bible http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120 Political and theological thoughts from Chris Guin, a Quincy, Mass. house church guy. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:13:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: pilgrim http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-287 pilgrim Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:38:15 +0000 http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120#comment-287 Chris, in reference to your post here, I thought you might appreciate this comment I wrote on your dad's site. http://oneinjesus.info/2010/01/18/the-fork-in-the-road-the-progressive-line-part-2/#comment-21728 It deals with the faith vs. works issue as well as making sense of the Old Covenant and New Covenant and the seeming arbitrariness of the Law. And some point in your home church experiment, you may want to check out www.housechurch.com Peace to you and keep up the good work. -andy Chris, in reference to your post here, I thought you might appreciate this comment I wrote on your dad’s site.

http://oneinjesus.info/2010/01/18/the-fork-in-the-road-the-progressive-line-part-2/#comment-21728

It deals with the faith vs. works issue as well as making sense of the Old Covenant and New Covenant and the seeming arbitrariness of the Law.

And some point in your home church experiment, you may want to check out http://www.housechurch.com

Peace to you and keep up the good work.

-andy

]]> By: thoughtcounts Z http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-245 thoughtcounts Z Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:39:09 +0000 http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120#comment-245 Haha, understood! It's all good, take your time. I'm subscribed to your feed so I'll see your response whenever you get to it. Haha, understood! It’s all good, take your time. I’m subscribed to your feed so I’ll see your response whenever you get to it.

]]> By: Chris http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-241 Chris Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:00:37 +0000 http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120#comment-241 Z -- I see you got a couple of reply posts up on your site - wow. :D I'm travelling on business all this week so I won't have time to look over them until this weekend, but I'll try and get a response up sometime before the sun runs out of fuel - hopefully. Z –

I see you got a couple of reply posts up on your site – wow. :D I’m travelling on business all this week so I won’t have time to look over them until this weekend, but I’ll try and get a response up sometime before the sun runs out of fuel – hopefully.

]]> By: JamesBrett http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-232 JamesBrett Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:27:54 +0000 http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120#comment-232 Good post. Thanks for writing. I especially like the bit about questioning whether or not God really is love, rather than examining our own assumptions about what love does. I think a lot of the "contradictions" we find have more to do with our "objective" analysis of the text being from within our own time, culture, and experiences. And then we look down on interpretations from another time and place, as if they're ridiculous and impossible -- all the while knowing that those on whom we look down regarded the culture before them with contempt for their interpretations. Is there some kind of evolution of intelligence and objectivity that we presuppose exists? Good post. Thanks for writing.

I especially like the bit about questioning whether or not God really is love, rather than examining our own assumptions about what love does. I think a lot of the “contradictions” we find have more to do with our “objective” analysis of the text being from within our own time, culture, and experiences. And then we look down on interpretations from another time and place, as if they’re ridiculous and impossible — all the while knowing that those on whom we look down regarded the culture before them with contempt for their interpretations. Is there some kind of evolution of intelligence and objectivity that we presuppose exists?

]]> By: thoughtcounts Z http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-231 thoughtcounts Z Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:11:14 +0000 http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120#comment-231 I think I'll be posting my response on Friday. It's nearly done. By the way, I should mention, you can call me Z. I comment on other blogs as "thoughtcounts Z" mostly because a comment signature/link of a single character is practically invisible, and if I'm going to extend my nickname with something it might as well be something that identifies me as from this site. I think I’ll be posting my response on Friday. It’s nearly done. By the way, I should mention, you can call me Z. I comment on other blogs as “thoughtcounts Z” mostly because a comment signature/link of a single character is practically invisible, and if I’m going to extend my nickname with something it might as well be something that identifies me as from this site.

]]> By: Jonathan http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-230 Jonathan Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:32:09 +0000 http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120#comment-230 I had this discussion in 9th and 10th grade with a girl I was looking to date and who had just been rejected by her then boyfriend because of the don't be yoked together passage. The only thing I really remember from it was how strange it was that she was using the Bible to try to convince me that we shouldn't be friends, when clearly neither of us wanted that. I wish I had more coherent thoughts, but my mental processes boiled down that entire situation to an exchange of feelings. Logic really had little to do with any of it, even though we prefaced our arguments and interaction on it. P.S. I think your comments on the previous post were well reasoned and articulate, despite your own feelings :P. But then I like discrete analyses. I had this discussion in 9th and 10th grade with a girl I was looking to date and who had just been rejected by her then boyfriend because of the don’t be yoked together passage. The only thing I really remember from it was how strange it was that she was using the Bible to try to convince me that we shouldn’t be friends, when clearly neither of us wanted that. I wish I had more coherent thoughts, but my mental processes boiled down that entire situation to an exchange of feelings. Logic really had little to do with any of it, even though we prefaced our arguments and interaction on it.

P.S. I think your comments on the previous post were well reasoned and articulate, despite your own feelings :P . But then I like discrete analyses.

]]> By: thoughtcounts Z http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-226 thoughtcounts Z Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:12:12 +0000 http://chrisguincreations.com/reasonings/?p=120#comment-226 I'm still around. :) I'm up against a deadline right now and haven't had time for blogging lately, but I found this post very interesting and wish that I was working on a reply! Hopefully this weekend, but certainly soon. I’m still around. :) I’m up against a deadline right now and haven’t had time for blogging lately, but I found this post very interesting and wish that I was working on a reply! Hopefully this weekend, but certainly soon.

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