Theology That Bites Back
I step away from my computer for a minute, and what happens? So a gent named Hohn Cho at Pyromaniacs has taken me to task for missing the point on sexual abuse. You can read all of what he has to say here. I will be responding to just some of what he had to …
In Monday’s post, the one on Al Mohler’s apology regarding CJ Mahaney, I made a comment that I would like to develop a bit more. I said this: “One of the hardest things in the world for human pride to do is to seek forgiveness when you have done genuine wrong. This is why it …
“We know this because when Paul discusses the golden calf incident, he calls this worship of YHWH idolatry . . . (1 Cor. 10:7-8). So the apostle Paul condemns a certain form of YHWH worship as idolatry. What? Because of the presence of the calf, not because of the absence of an invocation of YHWH. …
“In biblical vocabulary, false gods are not the same thing as non-existent gods” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 95).
Introduction: So I see that Al Mohler has now apologized for his past support of CJ Mahaney, and has also apologized for a joke that he once told while introducing Mahaney at an event. For more details, ...
“The heart is deceitfully wicked, and is fully up to the challenge, for one example, of fashioning even iconoclasm into an idol. When that happens the idol leers from his intellectual shelf in the temple of reason, as much as if to say, ‘Get me now.’” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 94).
“For my purposes here, I am understanding idolatry as placing a created thing where only the uncreated God should be. This clearly happens whenever images are used in prayer, but images need not be involved. Idolatry is more subtle than that” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 94).
“The boundaries of true authority matter to the submissive heart” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 87).
And just like that, as though coordinated with a prearranged signal, it seems to me that the Democrats have decided to do what they can to make sure that Donald Trump gets a full two terms. While I have been mulling over my promise to write on the challenge that Christians face when it comes …
