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No Bill. My message is "READ THE BIBLE" and then
we can talk.
the Golden Rule is good but can't apply to most of the
ppl you mention because they have gone on to their reward
whatever that might be.
In all sincerity, Judy, don't you see the irony
in your endeavor? When you write or speak, you want others to listen to you.
You feel entitled to that. The proof of this: when they don't listen, you feel
like you have been dissed. Why? because you think you have something important
and truthful to say. In this you are no different from anyone else. But what
is your message? Don't listen to the words of Barth (or Torrance, or
Calvin, or Anthanasius, or Nazianzus, or Newbigin, or, or, or) listen
instead to me: I'll tell you what the Word means, for I have the Holy
Spirit -- blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. In this you are a
theologian extraordinaire.
Perhaps the words of Jesus are in order: "Do unto
others as you would have them do to you." Bill
The words you speak concerning His
ppl? IYO could Barth smarten them up?
Or should we listen to Paul who writes that we
already have the mind of Christ?
It's not God's fault.
Not a very loving evaluation of God's
workmanship Bill
Lots of men have spent a "lifetime" preaching
some agenda or another - only those who 'in obedience' are speaking
God's oracles will receive a reward and I don't hold much hope for
those who add to or take from THE WRITTEN RECORD.
The book has already been written Bill.
jt
PS: Of course he's a
theologian...
You know, it just amazes me. One could
stand up and preach for a lifetime and maybe, just maybe, be
considered a great man of God (although that is even doubtful). But
put those words in a book and Oh NO! now he's a
theologian. Christians are so
stupid.
Bill
Judy, let's assume that we could take all the
words you've posted to TT and bind them together in a book. What
would it number, say, maybe 9000 pages? Would a single one of
them be worth reading? What were you attempting to do with those
words, if not to unfold the revealed word attested in the Bible?
You see, Judy, you still think that everyone is doing theology
except you. Okay, please tell me what it is you think you are
doing.
Fellowshipping with other "believers"
on an internet forum; and speaking God's truth with others
who seek to walk in it?
You will try in vain to get me into an
argument over Karl Barth. I just simply won't do it. If you are
interested in the man, then read his works or the works of his
students; they are manifest and quite approachable. If not then
please move on. None of the criticisms you share are new or
revelatory. Unless you have been living in a bath
tub, you, along with millions of other Christians,
have been well-misinformed about this man.
Bill
So you are not prepared to give account
for the hope that is in you with regard to Barth Bill?
Everything I have read about him so far has been dialectic and
nothing is definitive. Hardly the kind of atmosphere where
faith grows.
Bill writes: "It will take many
years, I'm sure, before Barth will be allowed to speak for
himself to the conservative community. In the meantime
Evangelical Christians will be missing out on one of the greatest voices the
Church has ever known.
I'm curious about what you find so
great Bill... What does Barth say in the more than 9,000
pages of his Dogmatic that we can not learn through the grace
and mercy of God from His Own Word? Was Barth
inspired or misguided in his belief that the "task of theology
is to unfold the revealed word attested in the Bible" when
Jesus' own Words teach us that this is the work of the Holy
Spirit in the lives of those who believe and follow
Him?
The very size of the Dogmatics.
Mascall said that it takes so much time to
read this theologian of the word that no time is left
to read the Word itself. His (Barth's) style is
majestic, and difficult.
From 1932 to 1967 he (Barth) worked on his Church
Dogmatics, a multivolume work that was unfinished at his
death. It consists of 13 parts in four volumes, running
altogether to more than 9,000 pages.
Although he changed some of his early positions, he continued
to maintain that the task of theology is
to unfold the revealed word attested in the Bible, and
that there is no place for natural theology or the influence
of non-Christian religions. His theology depended on a
distinction between the Word (i.e., God's self-revelation as
concretely manifested in Christ) and religion.
judyt
He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His
Commandments
is a liar (1 John 2:4)
judyt
He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His
Commandments
is a liar (1 John 2:4)
judyt
He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His
Commandments
is a liar (1 John 2:4)
judyt
He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His
Commandments
is a liar (1 John 2:4)
judyt
He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His
Commandments
is a liar (1 John 2:4)
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