Comments on: Will the God of love and peace be with you? http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/16/will-the-god-of-love-and-peace-be-with-you/ How Shall We Live? Sola Amare Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:31:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: dac http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/16/will-the-god-of-love-and-peace-be-with-you/#comment-6 dac Sat, 17 May 2008 14:47:53 +0000 http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/16/will-the-god-of-love-and-peace-be-with-you/#comment-6 The issue of "community" within blogging has been an issue to me - exactly what our are options for "living" together on the internet? Basically, when is it right to apply timeless truths to modern situations - basically contextualizing those truths. The issue of “community” within blogging has been an issue to me - exactly what our are options for “living” together on the internet?

Basically, when is it right to apply timeless truths to modern situations - basically contextualizing those truths.

]]> By: lisa robinson http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/16/will-the-god-of-love-and-peace-be-with-you/#comment-5 lisa robinson Sat, 17 May 2008 12:51:07 +0000 http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/16/will-the-god-of-love-and-peace-be-with-you/#comment-5 Interesting question. We live in such an individualistic culture that we'll read passages as speaking to us individually when they were being addressed to us as the body of Christ. So I think there is a tendency to undermine significance of the body of Christ. Consider Paul's exhortation in Ephesians 4:1 for us to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, I believe this is reference to us as the body of Christ (3:8-10). Because what follows from vs. 2 on is all about our unity. So the manner in which we have been called is how we operate as a body. The scripture that popped in my head when I first read your post was James 3:16, which says "where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing." When we are not operating as we should in the body, the foundation is selfishness, I believe, and disrupts the body. And this verse says in this is every evil thing. Can God co-exist with evil? So I am inclined to say no to the question, which is REALLY sobering. Interesting question. We live in such an individualistic culture that we’ll read passages as speaking to us individually when they were being addressed to us as the body of Christ. So I think there is a tendency to undermine significance of the body of Christ. Consider Paul’s exhortation in Ephesians 4:1 for us to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, I believe this is reference to us as the body of Christ (3:8-10). Because what follows from vs. 2 on is all about our unity. So the manner in which we have been called is how we operate as a body.

The scripture that popped in my head when I first read your post was James 3:16, which says “where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.” When we are not operating as we should in the body, the foundation is selfishness, I believe, and disrupts the body. And this verse says in this is every evil thing. Can God co-exist with evil? So I am inclined to say no to the question, which is REALLY sobering.

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