RE: Sermons You'll Never Hear In Church - First in a New Series
John, my friend,
I thank you for taking the time to read my diatribes. I also thank you for your ever honest and open responses.
I always accept your reproofs in the kind spirit in which you present them.
"I love your insights when you delve into treasures from the original, but I can't go so far as supporting your own conclusions that go beyond the text."
Nor do I expect you to. And I also bear you very great respect, my friend.
While I believe that I am not going beyond the text from the perspective of a global, holographic view of the bible in its entirety, it has taken me the bulk of a lifetime to "see" the whole text in this way. I fully understand that, in a brief and polemic sermon like this, I have not "connected all the dots."
I only pray that perhaps, over time, if you continue to kindly bear up under the agony of reading my polemics, some of the dots may become better connected - at least to the extent that you may better understand, though you disagree with, where I am coming from.
Thank you for your friendship, expressed so well in your open response to my writing! :D
Hi creatr,
I was thinking you might write a post, from a Christian frame of reference, detailing your journey through the political system to where you are now. I know my time spent in apologetics changed me and the way I view the church and faith in general. Some journeys are roads taken where you don't come out at the end where you were at the beginning. BTW, you know I agree with you on the fundamentals, it's just that the non-essentials are so damn debatable!
...and you probably disagree with that because to you they're so important :)
I actually began (and have left dormant) a series of articles about my long journey to agorism...
They are indexed in my Library... And I do need to go back and finish that series... ;)
And no, I don't disagree at all... In I Corinthians 15, Paul lays out the importance of a hierarchy of significance! :D
I'm glad we're united on the fundamentals! ;)
I do recall reading a few of those, but I know you worked as a speechwriter for someone whose name eludes me :) I wonder how that impacted your views of politics
I think you may be misremembering. The only speeches I've ever written have been my own... ;)
okay, you worked on some politician's campaign - you were surprised I didn't know his name
Ah, now I remember our conversation...
Yes, I blogged extensively for Ron Paul.