Sunday, January 25, 2009

Make Up Your Mind

I find it very striking how modern evangelicalism comes up with ideas that are in fact contradictory but simultaneously encourages them. A few that have been on my mind:

1. Christians are strongly encouraged to read their Bibles daily, through and through. And yet theologians are viewed as snooty, up-stuck, intellectual elites whose only goal is to interpret the Bible how they want and then verbally pummel anyone who disagrees.

2. Christians are encouraged to "know their Bibles" and yet there is hardly any effort to apply it, except as an encouragement to "be nicer" to people on a daily basis. When anyone makes a suggestion to actually *change* anything (believer to infant baptism, believe to infant communion, practicing excommunication) everyone becomes recalcitrant.

Why the schizophrenia?

1 comment:

NIKE said...

You can take an hour or two one day to knock out a bunch of posts, and then schedule them throughout the upcoming week.
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