Tuesday, September 12, 2006

A Deepening Well of Frustration

Who would have ever thought that the simple, obvious, basic things of Christianity would get questioned to the level they are now?

Things like whether or not we should refer to God as a "him". It seems so simple. Jesus refers to God as the Father. Is a father anything other than a masculine image? Well, no! So why the recent move by some denominations and progressive movements to eliminate that element of the Truth? Of course God isn't a "man" in the conventional sense of the word. He's God! But that doesn't mean he isn't masculine. Looking at his actions throughout the Old and New Testaments, it seems very apparent that he, is a him.

Anyhow, that's just the one that's grinding its teeth in my ear today. What about the authority of scripture? Should we not follow Luther's example and put the Bible above tradition and our own ideas? We have this idea that if we disagree with what we read in the Bible then the Bible must be wrong. What is that? One day soon I'll be able to write this lucidly, but right now I'm so frustrated with some of the things I see and hear in supposedly Christian circles that I'm beside myself. So, here's to calming down...

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