tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post4055300061004116168..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: Historical bottom linesGavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-63770340198506146932011-10-24T12:53:48.798+13:002011-10-24T12:53:48.798+13:00It comes back to whether or not you think this old...It comes back to whether or not you think this old joke is funny: "Cancel Easter, they found the body!"anglophile43https://www.blogger.com/profile/07099848074428163700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-49196763198377160402011-10-24T03:13:13.651+13:002011-10-24T03:13:13.651+13:00To be Christian means to follow the two commandmen...To be Christian means to follow the two commandments. <br /><br />Klaas Hendrickse speaks truly: Fundamentalism is a branch of paganism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-35634324209460687542011-10-19T10:16:34.226+13:002011-10-19T10:16:34.226+13:00I scored zero, but I like the potlucks! I like Je...I scored zero, but I like the potlucks! I like Jesus. I like some of the hymns.John Shuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-33494363810470544012011-10-14T06:22:54.234+13:002011-10-14T06:22:54.234+13:00My point isn't so much that fundamentalists ta...My point isn't so much that fundamentalists take everything as historical. Even nonfundamentalists, nonevangelicals, who believe certain events or sayings are historical take away from the reception of the narrative and the literary critical value. Even when believing the most banal subjects (it doesn't have to be the dead rising from the graves and only later presiding as deans over subjects at Liberty University--though that quite possibly happened, knowing some of the deans) like the crucifixion, and searching out the historical *core*, so much is taken for granted and missed, theologically and literary, that one has to wonder what the value of such an excursion is at all? I am reminded of the words of Bultmann or Schweitzer that such attempts are useless and solve nothing and the only truths they prove are those about the authors who are writing about them.Tom Verennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06134426966588179904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-86413158702303291542011-10-14T03:00:35.236+13:002011-10-14T03:00:35.236+13:00One thing only is needed to verify the authority o...One thing only is needed to verify the authority of Scripture: The Apostle Paul claims that Jesus Christ personally taught him (a claim made by many in the 20th Century) -- if that is really true, the Bible stands, otherwise....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com