Comments on: Greg Boyd on Myth of a Christian Nation

By: BigHouse

BigHouse — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:27:44 +0000

That's not a real answer but we can leave it at that. I've learned all I care to from you at the moment.

By: Wes Widner

Wes Widner — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:00:49 +0000

"Who gave you the power to decide what are "minor points of doctrine"."

Simple, as I mentioned above, the core doctrines for Christianity are and have always been found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Anything beyond this is second and third-tier doctrine and differences here amount to in-house discussions.

By: BigHouse

BigHouse — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:50:14 +0000

That's a rich response, for sure. You've done a good job of telling what my position is, and I'm the one trying to play God?

I'm written right here on your blog elsewhere that I accept that a god is a possibility. But the Bible is not his divinely inspired word in my opinion.

Who gave you the power to decide what are "minor points of doctrine". Your arrogance is as rich as your hypocriticism.

By: Wes Widner

Wes Widner — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:35:01 +0000

So, if there were an infinitely powerful, omniscient, transcendent, all-loving God you would expect him to conform to your standards of clarity? Further you simply dismiss the possibility that there is a God and that he has spoken definitively our of hand because of otherwise minor points of doctrine Christians (who are the followers, not the authors, and who are as finite as you are) don't see 100% eye-to-eye on things?

I see that you've been misleading me all this time. It's not that you don't believe there is a god, you seem to be under the impression that the position was vacant so you decided to try and fill it.

By: BigHouse

BigHouse — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:27:01 +0000

Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass. A couple thousand years of the emergence of differing sects of Christianity is all the proof that's needed to show that one interpretation of the text isn't clear. Yours is just one on the pile.

I'd expect better of a God then to send such a convoluted message.

By: Wes Widner

Wes Widner — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:37:39 +0000

How about you pick 3 of the biggest contradictions you think are in the text (or context) and I'll write a seperate post on them. Sound good?

By: BigHouse

BigHouse — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:02:52 +0000

Great, let me know where the secret decoder ring is so I can decipher all of the contradictory context from.

By: Wes Widner

Wes Widner — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:53:03 +0000

Nope, just the opposite. My apologies if you read that wrong.

By: Wes Widner

Wes Widner — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:06:18 +0000

Yes, right before "make right judgments" John 7:24

Context is everything.

By: BigHouse

BigHouse — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:02:57 +0000

Judge not lest you be judged. Thought I read that somewhere…