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Sunday, June 20, 2010
No more originality
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Jon
I feel like every topic I wish to expound has already been explained in depth with more eloquence and clarity than I am capable. So until I stumble on an idea to which I can add value, I will just highlight others ability to do so.
Hi Jon, I noticed you dropped by my blog and so here I am visiting yours. I watched this short video clip and it would be hard to give this much criticism with just his summation, but I think in all fairness to intellectual integrity seemed rather simplistic to me. Christianity is an experimental experience. We read the claims of Christ and if approached objectively, and if we are so inclined, we must test to see if living and seeking this invisible God, will bear fruit and actually bring us into what we perceive to be a closeness and connection to the author. I think it is no different of an approach than we as humans use to explore the possibilities of any spiritual or material. If we find that this experiment gives us wings, opens up our souls as we understand them, and we find that the promises made by Christ will hold and can be trusted, or even more as we test again and again, that they will hold up a life and bring closer connections to the promiser,as well as those we love in our families and see it then spreading to all of humanity, well, it is worth continuing on in the experiment or to use Biblical language, "taste and see that the Lord is good." Forgive me, I didn't plan on writing a novel or putting readers in a coma, but their just some initial thoughts. Fred Flying Embers.
3 comments:
awh Jon, you're pretty eloquent. And I like it when you say it yourself because when you get worked up your mustache twitches and your eyes water.
http://www.samharris.org/page/ted_talk/
I like what he says around minute 16, but the whole thing is really good.
Hi Jon,
I noticed you dropped by my blog and so here I am visiting yours. I watched this short video clip and it would be hard to give this much criticism with just his summation, but I think in all fairness to intellectual integrity seemed rather simplistic to me. Christianity is an experimental experience. We read the claims of Christ and if approached objectively, and if we are so inclined, we must test to see if living and seeking this invisible God, will bear fruit and actually bring us into what we perceive to be a closeness and connection to the author. I think it is no different of an approach than we as humans use to explore the possibilities of any spiritual or material. If we find that this experiment gives us wings, opens up our souls as we understand them, and we find that the promises made by Christ will hold and can be trusted, or even more as we test again and again, that they will hold up a life and bring closer connections to the promiser,as well as those we love in our families and see it then spreading to all of humanity, well, it is worth continuing on in the experiment or to use Biblical language, "taste and see that the Lord is good."
Forgive me, I didn't plan on writing a novel or putting readers in a coma, but their just some initial thoughts.
Fred
Flying Embers.
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