Stone deaf to the Spirit?
Having read an intrensting article in christianity, I am sure that my denomination is stoning the prophets.
We can't all get it right, and definitely not me.
It amazes me that the opressed become the opressor so quickly.
We can't all get it right, and definitely not me.
It amazes me that the opressed become the opressor so quickly.
posted by xopher_mc | 11:54 pm
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Was this the anti-Chalke article by any chance? I'm reading his book at the moment and although he sometimes substitutes sentimentality for poetry, he's basically right, espeially in the way he rejects penal substitution.
What worries me most about this whole thing is that people aren't asking whether or not rejecting penal substitution is right or wrong, but only whether it is evangelical or not. Evangelical is a human category and of less importance than the objective work of Christ, but this doesn't seem to bother anyone.
I'm with Chalke all the way, except on the passibility of God.
What interests me is that before all this Steve Chalke thing came out I was having a conversation about all this kind of thing and (not having read the book, but just a couple of christianity articles) I think I was saying a similar thing to Steve. (and plagarising a certain lecturer from college too!)
(The evidence is here if you want to know what I said)
Excuse my ignorance but what's God's passibility?
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I think he is wrong to reject impassiblity and immutibility. I have heard from one of his opponents that he is an openess. But he could have drawn that fromt these statements.
Passiblity, is that things happen to you involentarily. It dictionary definition is that in abilty to suffer. So Chalke takes this to mean (as some theologians have done) that God has not emotions. This is not the case, and God does feel pain and other emotions but has chosen to do so by creating the world. These things do not happen outside his ultimate control.
Chalke is a tad arminian for me, but that really is picking fleas.
Richard
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