Good Article
| Posted On: 04/08/09 05:14:55 PM |
Age 41, HI |
Thank you for a good article that neither denies reason or experience. Reason is not absolute as modernists like to think and ultra-modernism (what you and most call postmodernism) which likes to make it all subjective and completely unverifiable.
No one can argue with experience because one cannot say what did or didn't happen except that person and God. Reason tempers subjectivity but experience also tempers the incorrect and scary propositionalism that led us to man being the measure of all things. Biblical faith contains both.
Driscoll would say that he is emerging and not emergent and emerging doesn't have a Reformed vs Congo vs Baptist position, all can be emerging and post modern (not ultra-modernism). This period of ultra-modernism is the last throngs of the modernist period where man is the ultimate measure of all things. Wat comes next will be exciting - probably more pre-modern than modern.
Grace and Peace,
Jim
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Experience Over Scripture
| Posted On: 04/07/09 01:09:18 PM |
Age 55, OR |
You wrote: "What difference has your faith had in your practical, everyday life?" He told me how he had been hanging around the wrong crowd, drinking and experimenting with drugs. Then one day he read the Book of Mormon and felt a strange warmth within. Since that day, his life was changed. Never again did he do those things. Now he was filled with peace and joy. There was little I could say to refute that."
This is the challenge for believers, and something we can find in Alcoholics Anonymous and other non-Christian religions.
God gave us the Word; and His Spirit; and may those who are perishing hear.
Very interesting article.
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