Some months ago*, nearly everywhere I turned ideology triumphed scripture, its insanity^6. Interesting issues were marriage, a kingdom of God excluding the earth, capitalism, and unicorns.
As far as what Paul wrote in 1 Cor 7 on marriage, a fellow decided to look at his admonishment to be single if possible… Well marriage is huge massive idol for a ton of folks, and I was thinking, we’re going to have another one of these “I love Church, Jesus, not so much” moments, except in this case Paul.
Sure enough, nearly as if one turned on a switch, the responses were… well Paul didnt really mean that, or Paul wanted folks to marry as teens so as to avoid temptation, or any number of pretty strange and unusual attempts to not take to heart what Paul said. The problem is… if folks take such esiegesis to heart, well no wonder divorce rates amongst Christians are equal to, or even higher than non Christians in some areas.
Pastor Justo happened to set off the creation museum guy… but something cool did pop up. I’m no creationist by any means, but the museum guy did bring up one cool point as concerns folks leaving the church.
….what they meant by “hypocrisy,” and found that it was basically because they were told by the church that they believe the Bible, when in reality the people didn’t believe it as written—this was seen as hypocrisy.
As much as I’m opposed to the Creation museum stuff, the creation guy made a good point. That being said, just as I wrote before, we all pick and choose… but where I think the hyporacy issue lies, is preaching one thing, and then acting completely counter to it. Its not creation/evolution literal/metaphor stuff thats the issue… Its things like denying healthcare for undocumented immigrant, all the while reading the parable of the good Samaritan. Its telling the poor they will be prayed for, all the while ignoring their need for food and shelter. Its using Paul’s writings in 1 Cor 7 on marriage to somehow justify questionable marriage practices, and many other related issues. I wrote on other inconsistancies/hypocracies like this a ways back http://mnphysicist.posterous.com/if-enough-people-were-brought-to-christ-outla
Another screwball deal is splitting the kingdom of God in two, and then ignoring one half. In other words, viewing at the kingdom of God as only concerned with eternal matters. I sort of like how @edstetzer explained things, that dispensationalism’s exclusionary emphasis on eternity was a response to the social Gospel’s near exclusionary emphasis on temporal issues… it likely made sense 100 years ago. Now, its like some believers dont even believe that the Kingdom of God exist’s on earth, right here, right now, despite Jesus clear words to the contrary.
*Yep, this is an old post… found in my queue after bringing an old laptop drive back alive.
