November 19, 2009
November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
A Gay Mayor in Houston? A Prayer Meeting at Ted Haggard’s House; Gender Distinctions Matter
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Does God Get Disappointed? How Much Does He Know?
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November 24th, 2009 @ 11:42 am
See, I think Haggard had issues with hetrosexual sex as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX79GiZPP1Q
the video predates his public fall by several years, but points to a church culture driven by sensual things and to my way of thinking is borderline “filthy jestings.”
Fast forward to today-
If Haggard is able to “draw” 150 people to a “prayer meeting” it points to the issue of a personality cult which remains unresolved.
Oh, my.
December 1st, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Hello Dr. Brown,
I listened to your talk about your view on Jeremiah and how God expresses himself and found it interesting.
Some views seem like obvious errors to me. The open theist view that God does not know the future is mistaken. Open theists also tend to take certain bible verses too literally.
At the other extreme is the Calvinistic view that since God has decreed all events and predetermined everything, God is like a stoic “Spock” who has no feelings and all bible references to his emotions and feelings and reactions are **all** anthropomorphisms (language that is metaphorical and not meant to be conveying actual truths about God’s emotions at all).
It seems to me that the actual truth is in between these two extremes: meaning that while God may be using some **accommodating** language, nevertheless the biblical expressions are in fact pointing to some sort of reality. God may not get angry in exactly the same way we do, but passages speaking of his anger are stating truths, that he really is upset about how something is going.
I listened to your broadcast and want to make sure that I understand your view properly (I have not had a chance to look at your upcoming commentary on Jeremiah yet). It seems that you are claiming that the biblical statements in which emotion and feeling is being conveyed in association with God are God’s attempts to be more accessible to us. It is His way of relating to us (being more “touchable”), making himself more understandable to us, in a more intimate manner.
This makes a lot of sense as I believe God to be very personal and desiring true intimacy with people. Your view then would not take the Calvinistic view that the verses are mere anthropomorphisms with no genuine reality behind them, nor would you take the open theist view that the expressions are concrete and completely literal. Instead, your view seems to be that these descriptions are more of an accommodation for our sake (though even the accommodation does tell us some real things about God).
Am I understanding your view properly Dr. Brown?
Robert