Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.—André Gide

Mashed together posting.

I have too many things running through my head right now to put together a coherant post on each, so I’ll just throw out a few things here.

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First, in further response to my previous post, Consuming God, a few questions have come up in my head, and my wife Becky’s head, I’d like to throw out two of them.

With the ideal form of love being love simply BECAUSE instead of over certain aspects we find loveable, is it even possible for love to start out that way. For example, I certaintly didn’t love God just because when I first felt towards Him, but instead this (more) perfect form of love grew over time (and of course the same can be said for the love of my wife, and essentially any other love I have).

And if perfect love is loving a person just because (and do we even all agree on that point?), we must also then say that we love a person (At times) in spite of that person. Love doesn’t end when that person does something to wrong us, instead love forgives, and if it’s perfect love it must forgive even without that person asking for forgiveness. How does that reconcile with your views of salvation?

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Second, I finished How (not) to Speak of God, and have moved on to, The Fidelity of Betrayal. The first was enlightening and phenomenal, and the second thus far has been provacative and similiarly delightful. These books, however, make me feel a bit alone though. Sometimes it stinks being only Becky and I here (in our part of GA at least) that are where we are at in this journey. I don’t have any friends (that I know here in Georgia) that are either understanding of postmodern theology, or willing to read a book about postmodern deconstructionism.

Don’t get me wrong, I both love my friends (who aren’t into pomo-theory), and love to read the writings of my blogging buddies (who are), but sometimes I wish there were more people down here that I could sit at a bar with and talk about the Betrayal of Judas.

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Third (and final).

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

Philippians 2:3 (Emphasis mine)

… All I can say to that is “Ouch. Thanks God, always like those ones.”

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September 29, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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One Response to “Mashed together posting.”

  1. Greg Britt on October 3rd, 2008

    you give me a book to read i”ll give it a shot

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    I'm a twenty something, coffee-drinking, full time, married, amateur theologian, living in the northern burbs of Georgia.