tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13012039.post4856854871501934538..comments2024-03-28T03:15:54.134-07:00Comments on Luke 10:27: "A Crustaceous Crowd of Post-Christendom Christians"Beth Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00080711997032932991noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13012039.post-55320159697466036202009-02-21T14:44:00.000-08:002009-02-21T14:44:00.000-08:00Ooops, I 4got to leave my John Hancock on that las...Ooops, I 4got to leave my John Hancock on that last comment: it wuz jiss li'l ole me! (We RightBrainers have a hard time with such mundane matters as details, sigh...) ;)<BR/><BR/>E.E.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13012039.post-64255801562188467852009-02-21T14:41:00.000-08:002009-02-21T14:41:00.000-08:00{rubbing hands together and licking chops} Ooooo,...{rubbing hands together and licking chops} Ooooo, another favorite topic! Or, from another viewpoint, one of my pet peeves, viz. "I'm a Christian woman, but @ the beach, I can go ahead and wear a vertical thong around my loins and a horizontal thong around my bust---all in the name of 'swim suit'." {GAAAG!}<BR/><BR/>Of course, there's always the danger of reification, of legalism (conviction atrophied to convention ever risks the process we saw breaking forth in the late '60's), but still, what about the explicit instructions in the WORD? Stuff like "let women clothe themselves modestly", or even more generally, Paul's sum-it-up statement, "Because we have these promises, brethren, let us diligently cleanse ourselves of all defilement of body and soul, making holiness perfect in the fear of God." That covers the whole territory. Culture is simply a collective outworking of individual behavior. Jesus isn't LORD over mere abstract doctrines, but over all of life and matter.<BR/><BR/>But the sentimentalists (aka missionalists), heirs as they are to Rousseau and crew, can't "hear" the truth in the same way the Pharisees couldn't hear it from The Alpha & Omega Himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com