Comments on: Jon Stewart on the Obama Gaffe http://henrysthreads.com/2008/04/jon-stewart-on-the-obama-gaffe/ Thoughts on Religion in the World from a passionate, moderate, liberal charismatic Christian Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:11:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rev. todd http://henrysthreads.com/2008/04/jon-stewart-on-the-obama-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-104475 rev. todd Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:02:59 +0000 http://www.energionpubs.com/wordpress/?p=1280#comment-104475 I think it is a huge assumption that there is some absolute truth out there that we can "know." In the past 200-300 years we have thought that if we can only discover the "truth" then everything will work out... but this is a fairly new concept when you look at the history of the world. Jesus says that HE is the truth, not some information that we are supposed to discover, but a living, growing person! I think we are too fixated on finding all the "right" answers instead of just knowing and loving Jesus, and each other! I think it is a huge assumption that there is some absolute truth out there that we can “know.” In the past 200-300 years we have thought that if we can only discover the “truth” then everything will work out… but this is a fairly new concept when you look at the history of the world. Jesus says that HE is the truth, not some information that we are supposed to discover, but a living, growing person! I think we are too fixated on finding all the “right” answers instead of just knowing and loving Jesus, and each other!

]]> By: IanR http://henrysthreads.com/2008/04/jon-stewart-on-the-obama-gaffe/comment-page-1/#comment-104473 IanR Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:33:44 +0000 http://www.energionpubs.com/wordpress/?p=1280#comment-104473 I saw Bart Ehrman talk a few months ago, and at the end of his talk someone stood up and asked "but does any of this change any doctrine of the church?" The man was angry - you could hear the anger in his voice. And Ehrman said "No." But he went on to say that people will always find <i>something</i> in the Bible to justify their doctrine. The Bible is a great place to justify your biases. It's also a great place to find support for whatever doctrine catches your fancy. It's really sad that people have been taught to take every word in the Bible as authoritative, to just flip it open and read a passage out of context, let alone with any sense of how the words were used, or what the phrasing meant <i>to the writer</i>. I saw Bart Ehrman talk a few months ago, and at the end of his talk someone stood up and asked “but does any of this change any doctrine of the church?” The man was angry – you could hear the anger in his voice. And Ehrman said “No.” But he went on to say that people will always find something in the Bible to justify their doctrine.

The Bible is a great place to justify your biases. It’s also a great place to find support for whatever doctrine catches your fancy. It’s really sad that people have been taught to take every word in the Bible as authoritative, to just flip it open and read a passage out of context, let alone with any sense of how the words were used, or what the phrasing meant to the writer.

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