@RMattBoyd@MicahMacDonald Assimilation is not growth, it's an M&A strategy that acquires the old to consume value and discard the rest. The tendency to shop for religious goods and services and be anonymous tells me that the "discipleship" of modern Christianity has produced consumers not equipped saints
@H_Hill_DPT2B @WJCork In that context, I don't need to reconcile my faith with the Old Testement. I believe we were set free from the authoritarian control of religious institutionalisim to pursue a faith and community in spirit and truth.
@H_Hill_DPT2B @WJCork I prefer to view the biblical text as a literary text of people pursuing their faith and recording their interpretation of what God was doing/saying after the event, rather than a text of God's instruction to us.
@CalvinistFather@rickpidcock Jesus tells us to hate wives & children to be a disciple (Lk14). Paul tells us those who hate do not have the love of God (1John4) and not providing makes one worse than an unbeliever 1 Tm 5. One would be forgiven for believing that an air tight syst theology is the true miracle
@CalvinistFather@rickpidcock If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen
1 John 4:20
@CalvinistFather@rickpidcock Scripture intrepets scripture
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:26
@rickpidcock "But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
1 Timothy 5:8
How should this be understood?
One can disagree with it but then don't pretend to be a follower of Christ
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen
1 John 4:20
@CalvinistFather@rickpidcock "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26
@danwhitejr The church would be better off if it could see deconstruction for what it was, a step in a larger process that can lead to growth and transformation. As somone who walked through deconst'n 20 yrs ago, I found hope through transcending rather than getting stuck in critique.
@danwhitejr I don't see deconst'n as a movement. It is a step in a larger ecosystem of birth, growth, and death. The hero's journey shows us that if we get stuck any one phase, we miss out on the rebirth, growth and transformation. We fear deconst'n because it is hard to see the otherside
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COVID didn't wreck the economy. Science deniers wrecked the economy.
The poor aren't struggling. The ultra rich are profiting off the backs of the poor.
The planet isn't burning. The fossil fuel industry is burning the planet.
@ScottWapnerCNBC This is a stay invested and buy great companies at discounted prices market. As a retail retirement investor with a 10-20 year horizon, I am not looking to time the market based on Fed managers that won't be around in 20 years.
@ErinGreenbean@HollyStallcup I think this conversation has to start with confronting people with their own agency and freedom. If we start with the structure of the institution, our lack of imagination will lead us to rebuild the prisons we thought we wanted freedom from.
@ErinGreenbean@HollyStallcup Even if we were to change the institutional structure to one where we take responsibility for our own freedom, our lack of imagination for how that works and our desire to outsource our agency to leaders and experts will leave people to wander in their deserts or go back to Egypt