This is just a rough sketch of what I’m thinking about lately. It has to do with my rather controversial post yesterday. Seriously: this is all in development. I’m endeavoring to discover a structure for thinking about faith. So far this is working for me.
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Can someone give me the best defense of NP in the last year award (lol) – now thats arrogance
John,
Maybe I am jumping to conclusion, but I am betting that his congregation doesn’t know the answer to my question about:::By the way, David, do you embrace Allah as God as taught by the Koran? If I am wrong then they can tell me. Many are on this site. No guessing–the truth and nothing but the truth.
By the way, that is why I then brought in the next question for you, because I anticipated that you might ask what you did ask:::You don’t think that a pastor of a church who has a blog and is proclaiming a new z theory in hopes of influencing the people he is blogging to should answer questions about his new theory? Are all questions out of bounds or just some?
Oh, you are right. He has no obligation to answer me. But I have my right to draw conclusions as to why he doesn’t or won’t answer. And you can guess what my conclusion is.
I don’t know how well you know any artists, but my daughter is one. She does that all the time.
——–I don’t know many artists. But John, the z theory is not art; it is a preacher thinking outloud about new theory and doctrine–and the artist thing will not cut it. Either he is a full time pastor first and an artist second, or he should….
fishon
societyvs said: I bet ya – if you ask david – he can back this all up with biblical motifs.
————-Yea, like I am going to waste my time and see if he will answer me on that.
Why would he do that–he still hasn’t answered my original question–his, as you put it, “biblical motifs.”
fishon
That’s because he’s away!!!
I would say the Z theory is art. A sermon is art, or should be. When I used to teach in a Catholic school, though not a Catholic, the RE lessons were more like Divinity lessons and I took the opportunity to put across my faith with some conviction. My lessons used to come out a bit like sermons and it definitely felt like artistic expression. Things said or written can be art.
Tiggy,
Never thought of my sermons as art. I do put lots of time and effort into choosing the right words. Hum, I’ll have to think about that. It you are right and sermons are/can be art, then that would be the only artful part of me. I can’t even draw good stick men–oops, stick people.
fishon
Blimey, I thought you’d all gone to sleep. Early night needed over t here in Canada?
I can’t draw stick people or even write properly. I’ve only recently found my form of artistic expression after years of everyone saying I seemed like an artistic person. Even prose writing can be an art. Good punctuation is an art, not a science. It has to take into account things like the rhythm of the sentence and the sounds of words. I’m pretty sure the sermon is an art form.
David
Denise has a comment for you………….BRAVO…BRAVO..BRAVO! Truth and awakening!