tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5226574259643603032.post7216013626088704622..comments2022-03-26T21:36:40.823-07:00Comments on emergent pillage: if only they would follow their own advicejazzact13http://www.blogger.com/profile/17437006437523413659noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5226574259643603032.post-8639137618105632062010-03-23T10:08:28.603-07:002010-03-23T10:08:28.603-07:00I agree. I probably wouldn't have known what t...I agree. I probably wouldn't have known what to call it until you named it, but I can recognize it, to some extent.<br /><br />The whole "outside the box" rhetoric is starting to wear on me, because it is essentially meaningless. To say something is "different" is not to answer the question of whether it is good or bad, right or wrong.jazzact13https://www.blogger.com/profile/17437006437523413659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5226574259643603032.post-63133117836094831992010-03-23T07:41:51.333-07:002010-03-23T07:41:51.333-07:00This is in line with so-called post-modernism. Fir...This is in line with so-called post-modernism. First, they say something with which we can agree: We in our current state cannot fully comprehend or understand God.<br /><br />However, then they deduce from that point that <i>whatever we might believe of God probably is wrong, or that theology is "putting God into our box."</i><br /><br />In logic, this is known as a <i>non sequitur</i>, but McLaren and the other Emergents constantly use it to put down the historical Christian doctrines. Look throughout their discussions, and you will see the same dishonest pattern.William L. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.com