06-12-2008, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Grymir hmm.. interesting. I don't know what to say. It's in the Bible. (not those new fangled sterile ones). The sad thing is that I can see the Lib's in our country doing something like that. ("Its so messy, that is unclean. You can't stand") I don't know. A simple man armed with the KJV can preach better than a Lib with all the college in the world. Even if it's a little different. I'm gonna have to check out more of his stuff to see.   | The problem is not the assertion that everyone has been "ignoring" the phrase "pisseth against the wall", which occurs six times in the OT (and which the NKJ/NIV/ESV all do a fine job of in translating the intended sense). The problem with Steve A. is that he does such a wretched job preaching the passage. His focus is on a complete tangent, and he seems unable to understand that the phrase is not focused on "manliness" per se, but rather is an idiom reflecting the total destruction of the male population; whether old men or young boys, none were to be spared. The point of why that idiom was included in the first place is completely missed.
I mean, how easy would it be to come up with a sermon like that? Every time you had an itch to scratch against liberals/feminists/"modern Bible perversions" you would just thumb through the Scriptures until you came across some phrase that fit the bill, and - wham-o! There's your sermon for the week. It's either laziness or ignorance, or both.
I do have to admit that a good friend from seminary sent me this link last summer, and my wife and I were laughing so hard that we were having a difficult time breathing! The sad thing about it all is that the guy is serious!!! |
Oh I know! That is the type 'isogesis' that preachers use in the mainstream liberal church's today. Even mine. They usually relate it to some modern pop psychological idea that is floating around. I usually don't judge a preacher on a snippet though. But after checking out the church's website, I have to agree with the others he could use a little help. I'd rather listen to him than a liberal though...
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