Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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I've often been
struck by how clergy, more sophisticated theologians, and institutionally loyal
ecclesiastical bureaucrats make Christianity sooooooo complex/confusing.
You know their
line when talking about issues of faith and morality: "It's more
complicated than that."
They say that
after some, uh, simpleton says something like this: "I believe our world
and nation and denomination and all of the rest would be much better off if
people just, you know, literally obeyed things like the Ten Commandments,
Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 25, and..."
"Naaaaaaah," they
preen while sporting those stripes of credibility sown onto their
Genevans, "it's more complicated than
that."
But since I've
been born anothen, uh,
anothen,
I've kinda been struggling with that mindset as much as conventional grammar.
I've been
thinking there must be a really, really, really new translation of the
Bible that they're reading: "So man created God in his own image. In
the image of man, man created God."
Sorry about the
gender stuff in the previous sentence; besides, most of my favorite feminists
don't mind masculine imagery when it makes men look like...
Anyway, I've been
thinking there must be a really, really, really new translation of the Bible
that they're reading: "When Jesus finished His teaching, the crowds were
totally confused by all He had said. The clergy, theologians, and other
ecclesiastical bureaucrats reassured them, 'Ah, don't worry about what Jesus
said. It's more complicated than
that. We'll show you how to...'"
Yeah, right.
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I've been
thinking more and more and more about the aforementioned as I watch Obama and Romney
lie about each other.
I've been
thinking more and more and more about the aforementioned as I wonder why people
can't/won't address the simple choice of this coming November: free enterprise
or statism.
I've been
thinking more and more and more about the aforementioned as I'm part of a
mainline denomination mirroring all of the others as well as the sideliners despite their self-righteous
protests to the contrary that splits votes right down the middle or
somewhere thereabouts when balloting on issues of faith and morality as if God
is as double-minded as they/we are about issues of faith and morality.
I've been
thinking more and more and more about the aforementioned as I wonder why those
"religious" denominationalists whose connection to Jesus and Holy
Scripture is more and more and more coincidental can't/won't address the
simple choice whenever balloting on issues of faith and morality: you/we is or you/we ain't gonna abide by Holy
Scripture as the absolutely authoritative revelation of God's will on issues of
faith and morality.
I've been
thinking more and more and more about the aforementioned as I think about
clergy like me who are reading Matthew 23 and wondering what the anything but
heaven we've been doing for...
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I may be
wrong buuuuuuut
I've been thinking people like me like to make simple Christianity as
personified in Jesus and prescribed in Holy Scripture sooooooo complex and
confusing because we either don't believe it/Him for ourselves, never
truly understood Christianity as being about Jesus as attested in
Holy Scripture, or just changed our minds since getting into the gig and
lack the integrity to admit it and go sell insurance, work at Starbucks, or
something.
Or maybe it's
just that new translation of the Bible that's really, really, really catching
on with clergy, theologians, and ecclesiastical bureaucrats like me.
Or maybe it's
just because being simply Christian is too much to ask for those who've, uh,
abandoned it for something/someone else even while continuing to
pick up a paycheck from...
Ouch.
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I've decided to
get rid of as many of the religious trappings about Jesus as I can in
favor of a relationship with Jesus enabled by paying closer attention to
Him as revealed in Holy Scripture and enlightened in prayer by the Holy Spirit
Who never contradicts what He's revealed in Jesus as attested in Holy
Scripture.
Or something like
that.
I feel like I'm
just scratching the surface; but I'm scratchin' and sniffin' and searchin' through Holy
Scripture for something a lot more than the two feet planted firmly in the air
deliberations of my government, denomination, and...
I may be wrong;
but I gotta tell ya that I'm feelin' a lot better doing that than paying attention
to those clergy, theologians, and ecclesiastical bureaucrats like me who have
an increasing penchant for paralleling what they/we think to what He's revealed
in Jesus as attested in Holy Scripture.
Hmm.
It just occurred
to me that's why He came up with the first few of the big ten.
Of course, I
don't expect people like me who sometimes act like they know more than Him
to...
Whoa.
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Blessings and Love!
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