Brilliant piece; one of your best yet. Your deconstruction/Dark Night has borne fruit, and I'm not surprised. All those who make it through deconstruction do so because of the Real Jesus.
I don't want to kick up dust here, but I have also found that, like Church things, parts of the Bible too can be burnt down, because it too is fallible. However, the thing is that once the Bible has burnt down for us personally, losing all the terrible twisting and misinterpretations that the far-more-fallible Church has imposed on it, there is still a nugget there that can be built on - so long as it remains in its proper place. Bibliolatry (worship of the Bible) is part of the problem with the Church's faults, and once again it is Jesus Himself Who is the solution to the problem. And so the Bible once again becomes valid - once it is its proper place.
I'm not quite at that stage yet, but I'm getting there.
However, I do not hold the same optimism for church stuff at all. Burn it all down, for all I care. Sorry-not-sorry :D
Yes, I heard someone say recently that the Church is about the Father, Son, and Holy Scripture (missing the Spirit and elevating the Bible too high). As far as the Bible goes, I don’t think it is really the problem but the way we read it without understanding how to read it. It’s read too literally and with too wide of an application…making it mean things it was never intended to mean. So I hear you!
Brilliant piece; one of your best yet. Your deconstruction/Dark Night has borne fruit, and I'm not surprised. All those who make it through deconstruction do so because of the Real Jesus.
I don't want to kick up dust here, but I have also found that, like Church things, parts of the Bible too can be burnt down, because it too is fallible. However, the thing is that once the Bible has burnt down for us personally, losing all the terrible twisting and misinterpretations that the far-more-fallible Church has imposed on it, there is still a nugget there that can be built on - so long as it remains in its proper place. Bibliolatry (worship of the Bible) is part of the problem with the Church's faults, and once again it is Jesus Himself Who is the solution to the problem. And so the Bible once again becomes valid - once it is its proper place.
I'm not quite at that stage yet, but I'm getting there.
However, I do not hold the same optimism for church stuff at all. Burn it all down, for all I care. Sorry-not-sorry :D
And yes, my dark night has born MUCH fruit. Thanks for the encouragement!
Yes, I heard someone say recently that the Church is about the Father, Son, and Holy Scripture (missing the Spirit and elevating the Bible too high). As far as the Bible goes, I don’t think it is really the problem but the way we read it without understanding how to read it. It’s read too literally and with too wide of an application…making it mean things it was never intended to mean. So I hear you!
Agreed. Have you heard the song There Was Jesus - Zac Williams… “a blessing buried in the broken pieces”.
Yes! So good!
I agree SO much.