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Originally Posted by Richard King  YES! Though these posters are meant to be a joke they perfectly summarize the conclusions my buddy has come to since reading Borg. Motivational Posters for the Emerging Free-for All
Sadly he teaches in his Methodist church and in public schools and subtly interjects these thoughts and writings of Borg
into his students heads as some sort of secret REAL info that a conspiracy of Christians doesn't want you to know.
He will say " be intellectually free enough to consider this" or "consider with me if you will that there is a greater truth than you ever dared believe."
He told me his greatest dream would be to move to Oregon and study under this guy Borg.
I am basically dealing with a person who believes NONE of what the Bible says but feels he is a Christian because he "gets" the essence of what the Bible wants to say. He uses the word sacred a lot in place of God, Holy Spirit or Jesus. He says Borg convinced him that Jesus is not the Messiah but a messiah, one of many learned ones.
I think after thinking about this for a day or two I am dealing with a friend with the largest ego I have ever seen and he is simply unwilling to humble himself before God and has found an academic to validate his rebellion.
My problem is I love this guy like a brother AND as an intellectual or shall we say in IQ points he is so far above me at my very best that it is laughable. It is undeniable that he is smarter. He knows it. I know it. He is trying to "educate or enlighten me" and intellectually I am like the guy who took a knife to a gunfight. This guy just reads voraciously. I suspect he reads a dozen books to every one I read. But it has cluttered his mind.
It makes me sick.
That is why I wondered if anyone knows of a great mind that has done a rebutal sermon or book. |
It always amazes me that in the nearly 2 millennia the Church has been on this earth, people think some ONE individual has finally cornered the market on truth, finally figured out that God meant something different all along, and that in 2007 we Finally have enough "knowledge" to know
ourselves and
[g]od the way He wants to be known. It's really mind-boggling. To assume intellect--or head knowledge has finally given us what we need to reach God is so against the plain reading of scripture it is hard to grasp. Sad indeed. I think your best weapon here is simply prayer. Pray that God would humble your friend. This is what needs to happen. We all know that. He won't be beat at his own
game--and he is playing a game of oneupsmanship on you and to those unsuspecting sheep with which he is teaching error and heresy.