Comments on: Progressive Orthodoxy

By: Henry Neufeld

Henry Neufeld — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:40:40 +0000

Hmmm! On the spiders, I wouldn’t say I don’t care, it’s just that I DO like them …

I think I may do some more writing on revelation and illumination. I can see some distinction, but the boundary line is very, very hazy.

By: tishrei

tishrei — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:51:18 +0000

LOL, it’s your site so you can have as many spiders as you want. Just makes it harder for me but in the scheme of things, who cares? I just know to get a kitchen towel and put it over the top part of my screen when I want to read your blog.

Oh sure, God CAN speak still but does He? As we know, we’re getting all kinds of “revelations” that somehow end up as false. For starters, I could name off a huge list of people thought to be the anti-Christ. Latest one is Obama.

In the bible, God only spoke through the prophets and apostles. And each established who they were — that is they established they were speaking for God through through miracles and signs. As I heard someone say, if someone is raising the dead from their graves, you got my attention. It was those kinds of miracles that God used to establish those who spoke for Him as speaking for Him.

Too bad I don’t like spiders — I learned to dislike them when I was in Africa. They have HUGE ones there. Yikes!

By: Henry Neufeld

Henry Neufeld — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:02:34 +0000

I’m still hazy on the dividing line between revelation and illumination. It sounds artificial to me. I believe God can speak at any time. I think there is a good dividing line between canonical scripture, and what I might hear from God in my morning devotions, but isn’t in the nature of the information.

On the spiders, well, I’m afraid I like them. I have lots of other pictures too, but I really think the colored spider, who lives just outside my office, is quite beautiful. I’m sorry this bothers you.

By: tishrei

tishrei — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:18:30 +0000

Hi, this will be my first comment on your blog. This is how *I* see the difference between revelation and illumination. Sometimes as I’m reading scripture, it’s like I want to smack myself on the head as it becomes clear. That’s illumination. Revelation is finished. Canon is closed. He has revealed all He is going to reveal from Genesis to the last word in Revelation. In other words, He may illuminate something to me that He’s already revealed in scripture. (I have no idea if I made any sense).

Okay, this is how I found your blog – hope it’s okay to post it here with this response. I have a blog and I keep seeing my “Moderatte Christian Aggregator” in my dashboard. I have found some cool blogs from there to read. Don’t know how you found me as I’m a rather new blogger (started at the end of January of this year) — but thanks.

So – sure hope this is okay — but what’s up with the spiders? I HATE spiders — they scare me. As I’m clicking through your blog, I finally had to hang a kitchen towel over that part of my screen. What I was doing was closing my eyes but only peeking a little bit to see when the screen changed to the new page and then quickly scrolling down so the spider doesn’t show. I can send you some really cool pics if you want and that way I can really enjoy your blog without hanging a kitchen towel on my screen just to read your blog.

Anyway, you do have a great blog but would be better without the spiders.