Comments for A Dangerous Idea http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs How Shall We Live? Sola Amare Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:31:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 Comment on Is Sin Simply the Absence of Love? by lisa robinson http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/31/is-sin-simply-the-absence-of-love/#comment-24 lisa robinson Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:36:51 +0000 http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/31/is-sin-simply-the-absence-of-love/#comment-24 Hi dac, I don't know about making it too complicated, but I definitely think we need to understand about the propensity within us to sin. Because that's what will keep us from loving the Lord with all our hearts, and souls and minds and loving our neighbors. And what we do is a product of this sin principle. The better we can understand it and relative to what Christ did in relation to it, the better our perspective will be in dealing with it. Unfortunately, I think folks get saved and don't understand about the struggle that goes on within them. So no we should not make it complicated but neither should we over simplify it. Just my 2 cents. Hi dac,

I don’t know about making it too complicated, but I definitely think we need to understand about the propensity within us to sin. Because that’s what will keep us from loving the Lord with all our hearts, and souls and minds and loving our neighbors. And what we do is a product of this sin principle. The better we can understand it and relative to what Christ did in relation to it, the better our perspective will be in dealing with it. Unfortunately, I think folks get saved and don’t understand about the struggle that goes on within them. So no we should not make it complicated but neither should we over simplify it. Just my 2 cents.

]]> Comment on Will the God of love and peace be with you? 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.

]]> Comment on Will the God of love and peace be with you? 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.

]]> Comment on Sola Amare by JoanieD http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/15/sola-amare/#comment-4 JoanieD Fri, 16 May 2008 10:00:22 +0000 http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/15/sola-amare/#comment-4 I like that very much. "Sola amare" it is! Joanie D. I like that very much. “Sola amare” it is!

Joanie D.

]]> Comment on Attempt part deux by dac http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/13/hello-world/#comment-3 dac Tue, 13 May 2008 20:43:43 +0000 http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/13/hello-world/#comment-3 trying to import my blogger content Not working so well trying to import my blogger content

Not working so well

]]> Comment on Attempt part deux by michaelp http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/13/hello-world/#comment-2 michaelp Tue, 13 May 2008 20:32:04 +0000 http://adangerousidea.reclaimingthemind.org/blogs/2008/05/13/hello-world/#comment-2 Having problems? Having problems?

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