Thursday, May 25, 2006

Da Vinci DUH Duh?!?!

It seems that much that i wrote about the modern strand of experimental christianity can be applied to the group that believes this book to be true. It may not just be the experimental branch that has issues. It is perhaps a larger trend of postmoderism today that has distorted faith. It is the contrast of the view. What works is true. Rather than what is true works. Faith is a field on which many beliefs are attacked on multiple fronts. People also has some ambivalence in some areas because of Neo-orthodoxy beliefs which have infiltrated the church about personal inspiration and the nature of the truth of a passage is for a person. If this is not a very big issue in teaching, it lived out as a big issue in action. God is holy. God is in unapproachable light. God is absolute for he is eternal and unchanging. More people need to pursue holiness. More need to find their satisfaction solely in God. Sin, Salvation, Satisfaction, and Sanctity need to be taught equivocally clear. There are many places truth can be taught with fewer shades of gray from the Bible. It confronts someone with the notion of whether they believe it or don't.

I have been slightly pressed to say that today's fundamentalists act like yesterday's liberals. Just read the NLT and the KJV next to each other. Some Translations or rather paraphrases go above and beyond any close translation of the meaning of the word. There seems to be far less focus on strictness when considering dynamic equivalent translation or blatant paraphrase. Read the Message too. Protestant and Catholic alike would have burnt some of these translations as heretical if they were around 300 years. Who can blame yesterday's liberals for being so bad now when the fundamentalists are also bad at leaving the sheep-door open. (Liberal as in how they treat the Bible and its inerrancy/sufficiency. Not political allegiance.)