@mattforney@lord_schalll To your point, I’m sitting in what use to be the territory of the Erie, but we don’t know much about the Erie because the Seneca decimated them and wiped them out before most English speakers got off the coast. Most of what we know is from a couple of French missionaries.
@4nt1p4tt3rn If someone points a gun at you the “proportional response” is to introduce him to our LORD and Savior. But you don’t off the person down road just because they were standing on the same side of the street. Proper application is key.
@Protestia And yet the most reformist of men are to busy smoking cigars, drinking high end booze and navel gazing at their 3X flannel shirts while stroking their beards and wagging their fingers at a man who actually did something.
@reoindustries Just a thought. If you were able to offer a right hand drive model at the same price or even close to original. You’d make some points with the Rural Mail Carriers. Try pricing a RHD Jeep from the factory right now.
Augustine of Hippo is the father of a LOT of bad doctrines. Seeds that grew into thorny vines of teaching and cultural corruption through the history of the Church.
But there is a lot we now understand about Augustine’s errors and for some reason we still cling to what he said….why?
He did not know Hebrew, he did not understand the ancient Near Eastern cultural context of the Old Testament writers, and he heavily filtered Jewish scriptures through Greek philosophy.
Because he was working with translations of translations, he missed the poetic wordplay, cultural idioms, and specific legal concepts native to ancient Judaism. Instead, he treated the Latin words with strict, hyper-literal grammatical logic, which ironically forced him to invent complex allegories to make sense of them.
If he had studied Hebrew and Jewish tradition, his theology would have looked vastly different.
Key point: it would have been more accurate.
Instead it is a mess of misunderstandings and fabricated interpretation. Which became:
Original Sin
Total Depravity
A Static God
Double Predestination
We all know what we‘re looking at.
*cough* TULIP *cough*
Augustine wasn’t evil. His motives were good.
He didn’t know what he didn’t know, and he did the best he could with what he had in front of him for his time and place.
But today we know better. We have linguistics, and archeology and cultural studies, and physics.
So why, for heaven’s sake, do so many teachers in the Church still gobble him up and cling to his presuppositions?
Mistakes, however nobel their birth, should not be replicated when discovered. They should be set aside and re-thought out.
I think it’s clear now. It’s time to pull the weeds of Augustine from the Garden of doctrines and reexamine the crop of teachings and systems infected by his conclusions.
Because, isn’t the Truth of God worth it?
And frankly, I think Augustine of Hippo would agree.
The Roman Emp. Hadrian having conquered the world came to the land of my ancestors. There he declared it the end of the Empire and built a wall, to keep them out.
Secret Sun History Lesson: many of these Belfast kids are actually the descendants of the Border Reivers, a very weird super-clan of Anglos, Scots/Celts and Vikings who were the toughest, craziest, most fearless maniacs in all of Britain, maybe in all of Europe. They spent hundreds of years making the local authorities piss their pants in terror, so King James shipped half of them off to Ulster back in the early 1600s, where they spent hundreds of years duking it out with the toughest, craziest, most fearless maniacs in all of Ireland.
The Crown then shipped the rest of the Reivers to America, where they terrorized the toughest, craziest, most fearless Native maniacs in all of America. They eventually formed the backbone of the entire US military, and in some ways still do.
So good luck to Sparkletoes Starmer and his NWO fuckbuddies. I truly mean that. If the Republicans wake up and realize Sinn Fein is a Woke/Globalist Fifth Column, things are going to get really spicy over there.
Bonus Factoid: The Reivers were so extreme that Joss Whedon borrowed their name for his maniac cannibal spacemen in Serentity.
@iamAtheistGirl Atheist do what’s right based on objective morals.
Christians do what is right to honor our savior
I fear the judgement of God far less than I fear not being worthy of his great love.