Comments on: My Very Evangelical Meditations on Romans http://inamirrordimly.com/2009/08/25/my-very-evangelical-meditations-on-romans/ An imperfect and sometimes sarcastic perspective on following Jesus by Ed Cyzewski. Tue, 22 May 2012 18:37:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ed http://inamirrordimly.com/2009/08/25/my-very-evangelical-meditations-on-romans/comment-page-1/#comment-2553 ed Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:06:01 +0000 http://inamirrordimly.com/2009/08/25/my-very-evangelical-meditations-on-romans/#comment-2553 Jason, I think you hit on it. The old labels don't work. And so it's frustrating when I feel sort of out of place in one camp, and so there's this sense of, "If you're not in camp A, then you must be in camp B". You're right. The labels don't work for many of us. Good words. Thanks for laying it out. Jason, I think you hit on it. The old labels don’t work. And so it’s frustrating when I feel sort of out of place in one camp, and so there’s this sense of, “If you’re not in camp A, then you must be in camp B”.

You’re right. The labels don’t work for many of us. Good words. Thanks for laying it out.

]]> By: Jason http://inamirrordimly.com/2009/08/25/my-very-evangelical-meditations-on-romans/comment-page-1/#comment-2552 Jason Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:01:25 +0000 http://inamirrordimly.com/2009/08/25/my-very-evangelical-meditations-on-romans/#comment-2552 Ed. It would appear that you are holding a match. As a friend, I feel like I must do the responsible thing, and pour a bucket of gasoline on it :) Left, Right, and Center of what? If you're talking politically, you probably mean left as in hippies who smoke pot, have a lot of sex, and support gay marriage. You probably mean right as in gun toting rednecks who drive big trucks and spray hair spray into the air to prove their hatred of the environment. Neither of those descriptions are in any way caricatures. If you are talking about left and right in terms of theology, are you saying that people on the right are those who assume that every word in the Bible is to be taken literally, from Jonah being swallowed by a very real fish to the creation happening in a very real seven days to Balam really getting advice from his ass (I've been sarcastic enough in this comment, need I make an ass joke?)Those on the left tend to be those who think the Bible looks good on their coffee table, but does nothing to help them understand that Jesus was in fact divine, the scriptures are in fact inspired, or that there are any differences at all in the world's religions. Again, no stretching of truth here. I wonder if those terms work for us any more? In the preceding tangled web of extremes above, I find myself flirting with each option, depending on the issue. No one description or label involving the words left, right, liberal, or conservative accurately describe me. I doubt they accurately describe you, or any of your readers on this fine blog. So (man, that was a lot of set up to get to the point) without possessing an answer to this question myself, I wonder if there are better words to describe our belief systems? Surely there are others out there who struggle with these questions in the same way that I do. Or at least I hope so. Otherwise I feel instantly lonely. I can't wait to read the rest of your thoughts on Romans. It's one of my favorite books! Talk to you soon! Godspeed, Jason Ed.
It would appear that you are holding a match. As a friend, I feel like I must do the responsible thing, and pour a bucket of gasoline on it :)
Left, Right, and Center of what? If you’re talking politically, you probably mean left as in hippies who smoke pot, have a lot of sex, and support gay marriage. You probably mean right as in gun toting rednecks who drive big trucks and spray hair spray into the air to prove their hatred of the environment. Neither of those descriptions are in any way caricatures.
If you are talking about left and right in terms of theology, are you saying that people on the right are those who assume that every word in the Bible is to be taken literally, from Jonah being swallowed by a very real fish to the creation happening in a very real seven days to Balam really getting advice from his ass (I’ve been sarcastic enough in this comment, need I make an ass joke?)Those on the left tend to be those who think the Bible looks good on their coffee table, but does nothing to help them understand that Jesus was in fact divine, the scriptures are in fact inspired, or that there are any differences at all in the world’s religions. Again, no stretching of truth here.
I wonder if those terms work for us any more? In the preceding tangled web of extremes above, I find myself flirting with each option, depending on the issue. No one description or label involving the words left, right, liberal, or conservative accurately describe me. I doubt they accurately describe you, or any of your readers on this fine blog. So (man, that was a lot of set up to get to the point) without possessing an answer to this question myself, I wonder if there are better words to describe our belief systems? Surely there are others out there who struggle with these questions in the same way that I do. Or at least I hope so. Otherwise I feel instantly lonely.
I can’t wait to read the rest of your thoughts on Romans. It’s one of my favorite books!
Talk to you soon!

Godspeed,

Jason

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