Just what would you like to ‘see’?
What God wants me to do. That I might do it, granted His Light and Grace.
Quite a few posts back, I said that I always preferred to argue with atheists and Darwinists, rather than argue with Christians.
It's interesting to me, but both camps seem to share a common feature: Both are relentless doctrinalists.
Which is to say that: The written word of their respective doctrine is absolute and final.
In the case of atheists and Darwinists, I would say their "written word" is incomplete.
But the harrowing fact about some Christians is that their regard for the written word as completely "complete."
That is, if you understand the doctrine, it will save you. Just believe in it; you don't have to do anything else to be saved.
My problem is, any form of written language always refers to something greater than itself. It cannot be an "end in itself" in principle; its function is to point to a higher, greater Truth, of which the written word is but a declension.
But it seems so many Christians nowadays think that the mastery of the written word as an end-in-itself is what saves.
I do not believe this. Indeed, there is a word that describes this attitude: bibliolatry.
Bibliolatry substitutes the Holy Bible for God Himself, and His Living Word.
The Holy Scriptures cannot be a "reduction" of God, or a God substitute, in any way.
If we miss that point, then we cannot really hear the Word of God speaking actively in our souls.
It just means that we can read words, "flattened" according to our own level of comprehension.
FWIW.
I'm really done here. Think I'll go find an atheist, or a materialist, or a Darwinist to talk to.
It's a much less painful experience for me....