Purpose driven life ...

S&T: I love Hawaiian shirts, and as a matter of fact, in one of the churches I attended almost everybody wore one. It was not an issue because the teaching was solid, and rooted in the Word of God.

SBC: I was right. You missed the point.

S&T: Christ or krishna...what's the difference

SBC: Your constant blending of theology and methodology gets straight to the heart of the problem. Learn to separate the two and you will begin to see outside your own markers.

 

Rest assured I can speak at any theological level you desire, but as is evidenced from your lack of comprehension in basic areas of logical consistency, hermeneutics, and philosophy of ministry, we had better try and stay with the milk before we move to the meat. Those who choke on the 1% definitely cannot swallow the steak.

Why do you keep referring to the Message paraphrase? I can't remember ever referring to it. As a matter of fact, you never did answer that question on how much knowledge you have of Greek and Hebrew. Surely one who has the gift of infallible discernment has at least studied the language of the Bible.

 

Save yer hostility and aggressivity for the one who really deserves it: the Snake, the Dragon, Mr. Hellfire, the Twerpy Accuser, Satan the Coward (known to kill babies to try to prevent the Messiah from growing to maturity and kicking his behind as an adult).

I, the King of Kontroversy, The Arch Anti Passionite Preacher, the Jesus Film Critic Par Excellance, respectfully request a truce between Spirit and Truth (with whom I mostly agree most of the time) and SBCByGRACE (with whom I sometimes disagree)...

...I wish all of us Anti-Passion and Pro-Passion and Timid Lurkers who Take No Position could quit fussing and fuming...

...band together, and go out witnessing to the lost souls that are drifting off into a devil's hell for allllllllllllllllll eternity...

...whilst we grind our teeth over a flipping MOVIE (even though I dislike The Passion more than all you other Anti-Passionites combined times 20 million, I think)!!!

 

I can't speak for S&T but everything I have said is with a light-hearted spirit. I believe and defend wholeheartedly everything I have said, but I could care less if anyone else on the BB does (not being arrogant here just honest -- I don't take much stock in anonymous discussion boards). As I said earlier, this is sheer entertainment for me. I have avenues to stretch my thinking and avenues of entertainment that require very little thought. BB serves as the latter.

 

SBC--good response!

Here's a SECRET: some bloggers who post on bulletin boards are NOT HUMAN. They are spambots, disguised as human debaters. They are pre-programmed with various responses to "trigger words"--are you a SPAMBOT attacking bulletin boards? I'm sure you're human, like me.

WE, yes, YOU and ME, we are on a similar wavelength.

Debate is fun, sharpens our witnessing skills, as one Web pundit has said:

"Learning by arguing is the new trend in education. A Socratic debate dialogue--rather than passive soaking up of boring lectures and vomiting it back on a test. You learn how incredibly optimistically stubborn you are about your pet peeves and cherished opinions."

I'M GOOD AT ARGUING...just ask of my former friends. Ha!!!

 

How many posters on this BB are really NON-HUMAN Spambots sent from Atheist Anonymous to plague us with divisive controversies?

 

Can't find that way, they hide behind a legitimate poster and copy themselves and when found out and removed the new one reappears taking various posting names chosing randomly.

 

I am no spambot. I am legit. I believe 100% of what I post. I just do not take the BB as seriously as many.

 

SBC by GRACE;;;I know yer real. Ha! No spambot could put up with me as well as you do.

But spambots are legit, they are legit strings of code that are programmed to lurk untill a trigger word or phrase comes up...then they inject their pre-planned verbage.

they are "guided by algorithmic rules of behavior ("if, then" sequences) acting as human surrogates," there are gamebots who interact with human players. Recall MUD and MOO (I never got into computer games)?

Spambots, chatterbots, or postbots sound exactly like real people, have coded "personalities" and vary their message so they don't sound mechanical or non-human, but they are!

Frogman, he knows about the chatterbots realm. He knows exactly what goes on. He surreptiously explained it so well, I'm beginning to wonder...let me touch yer arm dude. Did that pinch hurt?/?/?/?/?

Back in 1995 or so I argued theology with a chatterbot, got mad at it, and was a nervous wreck for a week and a half. And it was just a string of code, not a human debater. Weird, dude.

Ever read the book BOTS: THE ORIGIN OF A NEW SPECIES by Andrew Leonard (1997)?

 

I am in the process of reading PDL. So far, I am disappointed in the content, but understand it isn't a theological treatise. It is more of a devotional than anything else so far.

I have highlighted a few places in almost every chapter that I would like to know more about what he is talking about.

There is more about what he doesn't say that sticks out than what he has said.

I dunno, I guess I have just come to expect more theology in books than I should.

 

DD: and I agree, again, with yr assessment.

Yeah, PDL is like a treasury of spiritual practices and concepts, but it bugs me grately that he has NO BIBLIOGRAPHY.

I'm a Web Usability/Credibility Analyst, and bibliographies are a sign of credibility in any form of communication. He does not seem to give credit where credit is due. In the text he might mention Brother Lawrence or somebody else, but a book like his needs a bibliography.

Check out his tiny reference to salvation, without repentance, so seeeker-coddling.

 

vaspers,
love ya man keep the conspiracy theory alive

Bro. Dallas