This week is finals week. That means I'm halfway through college.
Things I've learned:
1) I love to learn.
2) I love talking politics.
3) Christianity is very intellectual.
4) Greek sucks (I have a D+ this semester)
5) My girlfriend is awesome.
6) I'm too opinionated, and I touch people too much.
I've also come to realize a few things this semester:
1) I'm too liberal to be Southern Baptist.
2) I don't think any church would hire me to be a Southern Baptist pastor.
3) local church autonomy may not be the best thing in the world.
4) Creeds are amazing!
5) The bible is divinely inspired, not infallible inerrant in every way.
6) The Church should focus more on social justice then they do (fighting poverty, racism, etc)
7) The story of Christianity is interesting and filled with people messing up in the same ways over and over again.
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2 comments:
two things...would you mind expounding on why you think local autonomy is bad....and what you mean by the bible not being infallible???
Not quite sure, but:
1)local autonomy: I've seen how people are ordained in the baptist church: sometimes by deacons who can't even describe the relationship between the members of the trinity. Could it be that it would be better for some sort of ecumenical council to ordain? Would this clear up a bunch of bunk being taught in our churches?
2)infallible: the bible was written by men. Paul says in 1 Corinthians "I say this, not the Lord..." If we are all full of sin, and cannot do anything right without divine help, was the bible – this thing that is right – be divine and inspired by God? But, since we are all human and subject to sin, could this book have some elements of the human authors' words (it's not the 4th part of the trinity)? Yes, what the bible teaches is True, yes, the bible contains the only way for salvation, but do ALL of the geneologies in Numbers need to be factual in order for the whole Bible to stand in its salvific teaching? Is it okay for some of the words of the human authors to have some sort of error, while the ideas and inspiration from God be infallible? (Sorry, I confused words while writing--- infallible/= inerrant)
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