Comments on: “Hold righteousness at a value greater than rightness” http://www.jslweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/hold-righteousness-at-a-value-greater-than-rightness/ Thoughts on life, art, and religion Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: “I’ve lost Rob, I’ve lost Rob.” | Rebelling Against Indifference http://www.jslweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/hold-righteousness-at-a-value-greater-than-rightness/comment-page-1/#comment-38228 “I’ve lost Rob, I’ve lost Rob.” | Rebelling Against Indifference Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:24:35 +0000 http://www.jslweb.com/blog/?p=153#comment-38228 [...] decide to look around my blog before you go off on another witch-hunt, looking for other places to leave drive-by comments, I thought I’d post an excerpt from Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis so that you know what you are [...] [...] decide to look around my blog before you go off on another witch-hunt, looking for other places to leave drive-by comments, I thought I’d post an excerpt from Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis so that you know what you are [...]

]]> By: William Cordis http://www.jslweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/hold-righteousness-at-a-value-greater-than-rightness/comment-page-1/#comment-6573 William Cordis Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:21:15 +0000 http://www.jslweb.com/blog/?p=153#comment-6573 Ken inadvertently highlights an important assumption usually at work in discussions on this theme: did Jesus found Christianity? Many Christians take it for granted that he did and the Catholic Church at least has formulated that as institutional dogma. I come from a tradition that interpreted its own rise and the way it was structured to be divinely and purposefully led. Yet as I have grown and considered this idea I find myself much more comfortable with the idea that Christianity, especially its institutional an cultural forms, were not founded by Christ intentionally, but rather is a human reaction to an encounter with God in Christ Jesus. That's not to say that is only involvement was in the encounter and nothing more. Rather it's to give the human element in this process its rightful due. Christianity, in all its myriad of forms is a human enterprise. God sparked and devoted to God for sure, but human in its limitations and flaws none the same. Ken inadvertently highlights an important assumption usually at work in discussions on this theme: did Jesus found Christianity? Many Christians take it for granted that he did and the Catholic Church at least has formulated that as institutional dogma. I come from a tradition that interpreted its own rise and the way it was structured to be divinely and purposefully led.

Yet as I have grown and considered this idea I find myself much more comfortable with the idea that Christianity, especially its institutional an cultural forms, were not founded by Christ intentionally, but rather is a human reaction to an encounter with God in Christ Jesus. That’s not to say that is only involvement was in the encounter and nothing more. Rather it’s to give the human element in this process its rightful due. Christianity, in all its myriad of forms is a human enterprise. God sparked and devoted to God for sure, but human in its limitations and flaws none the same.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.jslweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/hold-righteousness-at-a-value-greater-than-rightness/comment-page-1/#comment-6225 Stephen Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:06:06 +0000 http://www.jslweb.com/blog/?p=153#comment-6225 No, Ken, it is not at odds with the "narrow is the way" passage. It has more to do with the omniscience of man, or lack thereof. No, Ken, it is not at odds with the “narrow is the way” passage. It has more to do with the omniscience of man, or lack thereof.

]]> By: Ken Silva http://www.jslweb.com/blog/2007/12/06/hold-righteousness-at-a-value-greater-than-rightness/comment-page-1/#comment-6185 Ken Silva Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:43:50 +0000 http://www.jslweb.com/blog/?p=153#comment-6185 "for Christianity to remain vibrant, we must allow for a wide range of theological beliefs,..." But wouldn't this be at odds with the Founder of Christianity and what He said in Matthew 7:13-14? “for Christianity to remain vibrant, we must allow for a wide range of theological beliefs,…”

But wouldn’t this be at odds with the Founder of Christianity and what He said in Matthew 7:13-14?

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