Wednesday, April 28, 2010

COFFEE BREAK 171

+ updated at 5:13pm ESDT on Wednesday, April 28, 2010

+ On April 24 Seattle became the first city in the world to affirm The Charter for Compassion.  See http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fetzer-institute-and-compassionate-action-network-partner-on-compassionate-seattle-celebration-91855374.html

+ At http://johnawilde.blogspot.com/2010/04/friends-declare-me-apostate-heretical.html, "Pastor Bob" and I are continuing to discuss my heresies and apostasies.  I just published Comment 34 responding to Bob's Comment 33. Anybody else want to dive in?

Excerpt 1 from Comment 34: "I think one of the beauties of Orthodoxy (Correct Praise) is that it really does allow a very wide range of interpretation. It seems to me that you have a narrow range within that larger range which you and Viola and others insist all Christians accept."

Excerpt 2 from Comment 34: "I do believe in miracles but I also believe in great story telling and I believe that one must allow disagreement on whether particular miracles happened or not. For me it is really important to keep the tent big and open."

Excerpt 3 from Comment 34: "I certainly do not come close to exhibiting the Full Divinity Jesus revealed AS TOLD IN GREAT STORIES. I do believe that the Real Presence of Christ is a description of our basic Oneness with God which is broken by Sin but restored in Holy Communion. In other words, we have the POTENTIAL to be as fully divine as the Jesus of THE STORY."

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