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Originally Posted by OnTheFritz
Thanks for the response.
Yes, but respectfully, just because you have made it simple in your mind doesn't mean it necessarily is simple. That's the problem I have with the "it's right there in black and white, just read it" mentality. It's not. We read it through whatever glasses we decide to put on. There is PLENTY of room for interpretation. People have dedicated their whole lives to the study and interpretation of the Word. Sometimes things don't just fit into a nice, neat box.
Do we often overcomplicate things? Sure. But by the same token, It seems that many people put a stake in the ground somewhere along the way and stop the journey. It's a "this sounds good to me, so it is now my foundation for everything" mentality. I think both are dangerous.
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Fritz, with respect, your view here is a good bit of what many of us oppose with the Relevant/Journey/Emerging movement. It is that post-modern situational ethos that leads everyone down the path that there is no collective truth. That truth is spicific to the individual. It is eastern thought/relgion seeping in to the church.
And it just might be the irreconsilable difference between us. I reject that completlely. There is "a hill worth dying on" where Truth is concerned.
This is exactly that hill. I can respect your right to the choices youve made. But we wont agree on this. To me this view is a mixture of light and darkness. That is strange brew that leads folks back to what God callled them out of.
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