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| Starcraft 2http://www.starcraft2.com/
Hell, its about time.
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*Notes to Self*
Buy New Computer
Buy Spore and SC2
Clean pants and floor
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| The "Reformed Tradition"Well, this is gonna be a rant, so feel free to stop reading at this point.
The "Reformed Tradition." I really don't like those words. Why is it that so many reformed theologians criticize the evangelical world partly on the grounds that they have strayed from the "Reformed tradition," that they have forsaken centuries of Reformed tradition for something novel? Who cares if it doesn't fit with Reformed tradition! Reformation theology doesn't derive any sort of authority from history; it derives its authority from the Bible. To those Reformed, tradition has no importance in and of itself. So why do we argue around pretending like it does?
Okay, I know some people would suggest to me that reformed tradition is good because it is rooted in the Bible, and I do believe that that is true. However, the way many people advance their arguments, at least in type of criticism I mentioned above, seems to suggest that the conflict lies between the current teaching and tradition. New and old is not the issue here; instead, its the heretical and the biblical, the heterodox and the orthodox.
What is the Sola usually first mentioned? Sola Scriptura: Scripture alone. Does this mean things like history have no value? Of course not! Christianity is a historical religion. The gospel is historically grounded in the death and resurrection of Christ, while the narratives are historical events. The message of the Word is historically validated at any and every point, in any and every way. However, we need to remember that Christian claims are only as true as they are biblical. Independent of the Bible and its message, history means nothing. So, for those who are Reformed, stop criticizing evangelicalism in such a manner as to suggest that it does!
What matters to me is that someone is biblical, not that someone stays in the so-called "reformed tradition." Reformed criticisms of the evangelical world (or of any world, for that matter) should be Biblical criticisms and only Biblical criticisms.
Ugh, I'm feeling frustrated with the Reformed community. They have brilliant theologians, but sometimes they can be frighteningly inconsistent and hopelessly naive.
Perhaps one of you reformed readers (*cough* *cough* DARREN *cough* *cough*) could elaborate this notion of somehow a degree of authority residing in this "Reformed tradition." Perhaps the Reformed community isn't so frighteningly inconsistent with this point as I think they are.
Perhaps...
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| CAL!Well, after weeks of procrastination, I am officially a student at UC Berkeley. Go Bears!
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| On the Modern Bible MarketThis is from the ESV Bible blog some time ago. Its really interesting, and so I decided to share it with all of you:
The problem [with the consumerist culture of the Bible market], as
[Phyllis Tickle] sees it, is that “instead of demanding that the
believer, the reader, the seeker step out from the culture and become
more Christian, more enclosed within ecclesial definition, we’re
saying, ‘You stay in the culture and we’ll come to you.’ And,
therefore, how are we going to separate out the culturally transient
and trashy from the eternal?” The consumerist culture in which
BibleZines and the like participate is, to Tickle, “entirely
antithetical to the traditional Christian understanding of meekness and
self-denial and love and compassion.” In Tickle’s view, reimagining the
Bible according to the latest trends is not merely a question of
surmounting a language barrier. It involves violating “something close
to moral or spiritual barriers.”
The original post can be found at http://www.esv.org/blog/2006/12/new.yorker.bible.market
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| Hidden House Products - ZOMGIf you all dont know, in my family, I am known for having a Bible fetish. I dont settle for that cheap bonded leather trash you see today in so many American Bibles. I mean, for goodness sake, I special ordered a Bible from the UK, bound in goatskin, with art-gilt edges, and india paper. I was even considering sending it to a book binding company to have it lined in goatskin as well.
Yet even goatskin, at least in comparison to the covers sold by Hidden House Products, is pretty freaking conventional. I mean, look at their site here: http://www.hiddenhouseproducts.com/index.html. I mean, for goodness sake, they sell Bibles in Alligator and Elephant Skin. Yes, you read that. Elephant skin.
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