tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post3895758604648704829..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: Repenting about repentingBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-89532511338206537352010-09-15T23:22:17.748-04:002010-09-15T23:22:17.748-04:00Kim,
I truly appreciate this sermon. My wife and ...Kim,<br /><br />I truly appreciate this sermon. My wife and I read them together when Ben posts them and always learn from them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-91198241894798484422010-09-14T09:56:57.803-04:002010-09-14T09:56:57.803-04:00Honest question:
Does pitting the concepts of ind...Honest question:<br /><br />Does pitting the concepts of individual sin versus corporate sin not remind you of the sorites paradox (i.e., paradox of the heap)?<br /><br />When does one stop and the other begin? Are they not interdependent?Tyler Wittmanhttp://indesertum.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-61950163687902804562010-09-13T10:55:19.535-04:002010-09-13T10:55:19.535-04:00It's nice to see such a close reader, Anonymou...It's nice to see such a close reader, Anonymous! I emailed Ben about my typo, but you beat him to the correction which is now in place. A Freudian might say it's a slip that suggests I'm a libertine at heart! Thus my version of Romans 6:2 reads: "Absolutely!"<br />(Cf. the so-called "Wicked Bible" of 1631 which omitted a rather important "not": "Thou shalt commit adultery". The printers were fined.)kim fabriciusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-3592880822157930722010-09-13T10:10:12.375-04:002010-09-13T10:10:12.375-04:00Great sermon. Like Father Zosima's dying brot...Great sermon. Like Father Zosima's dying brother said, we must beg forgiveness from the little birds.philqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08265153889883377656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-47335700006339923782010-09-13T09:04:12.055-04:002010-09-13T09:04:12.055-04:00Quite a bit right and one or two key things that a...Quite a bit right and one or two key things that are wrong. First, yes, sin is not just individual, it is group. We are responsible for the actions of each other, tolerated within the group. When we fail to punish, ostracize and otherwise eliminate sins from within the group, we partake in the communal - structural or not - sin. <br /><br />The problem is that sin is not really about 'oppression' or 'violence' to other people, as much as that idea makes us warm and fuzzy. It is about the authority of God, denying it, resisting it, rebelling against it. Loving other people is one way of obeying Him, one big way, but it is still secondary to our love and obedience and submission to Him - something that no non-believer will ever really subscribe to, something they openly mock, something that is much more risky to say than 'love one another.' <br /><br />So, when it comes to issues like murder, where the person 'brings blood on their own head' and we fail to execute them - creating a system of injustice and disobeying the expressed desire of God as He has delegated the sword for its use, for example, we can't simply agree with the common non-believer and go on about how God just wants us to love one another. No. This demands action or else we are all complicit in rebellion.BenKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-23101346992826124942010-09-12T23:48:15.164-04:002010-09-12T23:48:15.164-04:00I read somewhere (the Bible?) that sin is 'sep...I read somewhere (the Bible?) that sin is 'separation from God'. So a lot of repenting must go on for us to stay as close as we can to our creator.<br />btw, this sermon isn't about 'self-indulgence' is it?Pamelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815263209123614682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-45663472459425825112010-09-12T23:23:53.565-04:002010-09-12T23:23:53.565-04:00Thanks for the good sermon.
Incidentally, I beli...Thanks for the good sermon. <br /><br />Incidentally, I believe there is a 'do not' missing from the end of the sixth paragraph:<br /><br />"...and indeed the people who did do those terrible things are also let off the hook too as long as they [do not] return to their wicked ways."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com