tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4013061704828990246.post5803841122602553019..comments2023-06-04T08:57:15.376-05:00Comments on Christian Life with Michael: Velvet Elvis - Perspective Is EverythingTulsaMJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15945834114006833482noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4013061704828990246.post-43412998629177015632010-05-16T08:27:35.761-05:002010-05-16T08:27:35.761-05:00love your take on this book. i read it several ye...love your take on this book. i read it several years ago and it woke up a monster in me. then i started his book "sex god" didn't finishit and just yesterday picked it up again and loved it. especially the chapter under "the chuppah". i was feeling dead inside and it has woke me up again. i really enjoy reading your writings. heard you can really sing too!<br />addictive blog reader :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4013061704828990246.post-39455369173499444172010-05-15T22:17:48.892-05:002010-05-15T22:17:48.892-05:00like ur writing style..it's the real deal. jus...like ur writing style..it's the real deal. just keep on writing...maybehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02298405063396051450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4013061704828990246.post-12649937822519254052010-05-14T14:47:13.722-05:002010-05-14T14:47:13.722-05:00Ken,
It seems to me that you're proving Bell&...Ken,<br /><br />It seems to me that you're proving <i>Bell's</i> point. What if we're wrong about Jesus having to be born of a virgin? I'm not saying we <i>are</i> wrong, because I believe we are correct in that, but for the sake of argument, what if we were? Would it invalidate every single other thing in the Christian faith? What if Jesus <i>did</i> have a human father, but God still called Him "my beloved Son"? And then Jesus led a sinless life and died on a cross as our perfect sacrifice, and then you and Pastor Abendroth died and went to Hell because of the word "virgin."<br /><br />(Granted, if "virgin" does not mean "virgin" there, it would invalidate several other passages in the New Testament... did I mention that I <i>do</i> believe in the virgin birth?)<br /><br />The virgin birth of Jesus was a miracle. I believe with my whole heart and mind that it did happen. But if there ever turns up conclusive proof that I am wrong (I have no idea how that could possibly happen, but for the sake of argument) and God was incarnated by a <i>different</i> miracle, it won't shake my faith in God or in Jesus. The chapter in Bell's book isn't about the virgin birth at all; the chapter is about being too rigid in your Theology to even entertain someone else's ideas, whether their ideas are correct or horribly incorrect.<br /><br />Pulling that one paragraph out of the whole book and blasting away at it, taking it completely out of context, is, in my opinion, straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.TulsaMJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945834114006833482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4013061704828990246.post-91972495389359175572010-05-14T13:35:27.491-05:002010-05-14T13:35:27.491-05:00"My guess is that when Pastor Abendroth saw t..."My guess is that when Pastor Abendroth saw the passage about the virgin birth, he automatically snapped into "this person denies the virgin birth" mode, and suddenly turned his listening ears off and assumed a connotation for the words on the page that is not there."<br /><br />No, his point was by Bell using an "if proposition" concerning the Virgin Birth, it shows Bell's ignorance that this is a non-negotiable doctrine. <br /><br />Without the Virgin Birth we have no sinless Savior, and one who rejects the Virgin Birth is not a Christian. That's what Pastor Abendroth was talking about.Ken Silvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01390319268507275969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4013061704828990246.post-42848820023262261632010-05-14T06:50:44.676-05:002010-05-14T06:50:44.676-05:00AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!Jonathannoreply@blogger.com