 Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 6:34 PM
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followingHim (9/13/2007)
Welcome to our little community, LowlyWise. You'll find a wide variety here. Obviously, >most of us have left CS.
>Methinks that you have been somewhat seduced by a kind CS personality. Now, I am glad that the practioner was kind and loving. We'd hardly want a sourpuss handling a parent's funeral, would we?
This is a tad bit patronizing.
But there is a problem here. We need to focus on whether a religion is .
"What is truth?" asked jesting Pilate, and did not stay to hear the answer." I've met all kinds of human beings in CS, and some even admit that they are after all human. It the denial and the unthinking nitwittery that I've seen recently that drives me up the wall.
> . . .Does this make Biblical (as opposed to "metaphysical") Christianity less than authentic?
I'd say you can as easily reverse those terms as not.
I say no. We hold to Jesus because he is the Way--the Way--mankind can be in God's will.
And not a mere "way-shower."
I have been thinking about that a lot. The Way must be his own Way-shower. MBE did follw the Via Crucis, but the genuine Christianity is so overlarded with "spiritual" euphemisms it's hard to find.
As to "metaphysical," my first association is with a capital M for the 17th century poets so dubbed. Or to New Age superficiality. I am uncomfortable using the terms as lots of Christian Scientists do.
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