Comments on: The Complex in a Nutshell http://lfbtl.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-complex-in-a-nutshell/ Subversive reflections on the obvious. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:47:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: gerryhunter http://lfbtl.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-complex-in-a-nutshell/#comment-6 gerryhunter Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:33:53 +0000 http://lfbtl.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-complex-in-a-nutshell/#comment-6 The last sentence is the key to the whole problem. Where people acknowledge the authority of God, they can differ, perhaps, in where that authority might direct them in a given situation. Being subject to the same authority, they can benefit from interaction under that authority. But when the self is the authority, then so-called dialogue is a delusion. There are only parallel monologues, which sometimes coincide. When they don't, there's no basis for resoluton, as there could be with acknowledgement of a higher, common authority in place. The result is a coming apart, and a shattering as distinct from a simple cleavage. The last sentence is the key to the whole problem.

Where people acknowledge the authority of God, they can differ, perhaps, in where that authority might direct them in a given situation. Being subject to the same authority, they can benefit from interaction under that authority.

But when the self is the authority, then so-called dialogue is a delusion. There are only parallel monologues, which sometimes coincide. When they don’t, there’s no basis for resoluton, as there could be with acknowledgement of a higher, common authority in place.

The result is a coming apart, and a shattering as distinct from a simple cleavage.

]]> By: Richard Ball http://lfbtl.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-complex-in-a-nutshell/#comment-5 Richard Ball Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:15:13 +0000 http://lfbtl.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-complex-in-a-nutshell/#comment-5 Nor does it allow for the role of the Holy Spirit in inwardly informing and directing a Christian's beliefs. It sounds like a reprise of the old "wish fulfillment" argument for the existence of God. And, of course, it makes liberal Christians "better persons" than conservatives because their tolerant, enlightened views are presumably generated from their more pacific inner selves. Biblical truth tells us what we emphatically do not want to hear -- that we are hopeless, helpless sinners and not just some but all of the glory belongs to God. Liberal Christianity is really just a form of self-worship. Nor does it allow for the role of the Holy Spirit in inwardly informing and directing a Christian’s beliefs. It sounds like a reprise of the old “wish fulfillment” argument for the existence of God. And, of course, it makes liberal Christians “better persons” than conservatives because their tolerant, enlightened views are presumably generated from their more pacific inner selves.

Biblical truth tells us what we emphatically do not want to hear — that we are hopeless, helpless sinners and not just some but all of the glory belongs to God.

Liberal Christianity is really just a form of self-worship.

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