Tulip or not, cerebral salad, for sure

Tulip or not, salads are awesome. More so if they are for the mind. A delightful mixture of topics like sexuality, india, secularism, healthcare in India, human rights and more are blended into a robust Cerebral Salad by Dr. Anand Philip. This is totally for those spidery things that crawl the web and make decisions based on key words and meta descriptions. But that's not  all, this spammy post is just my way of saying, I've moved on from wondering about if total depravity and unconditional election are true doctrines or not. Now I wonder how I can contribute to the welfare of the female child, making doctors understand and communicate with patients better, and creating awareness about social enterprises. All of this is happening at the new blog, which I have linked to earlier. Come visit.

By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them

People find it absurd, scandalous or even blasphemous if I say that I evaluate the various doctrines and schools of thought in the Christian world using the scientific method but in reality that’s what all the theologians do or pretend to do.

Take a Calvinist, what is he doing when he takes a dozen or so verses that seem to support the concept of total depravity, or an Armenian, some verses to the opposite effect? What they both are doing is gathering evidence and drawing conclusions, and then consolidating them in to an “ism” or a hypothesis.

But,you know what, after spending hours on poring over the manuscripts and studying Greek and battling with the nuances of Greek grammar, many a bible scientist, like the secular ones forgets that what he has come up with is not the revealed word of god but a hypothesis and so he forgets the last step, the empirical step, the part that’s the reason the theory exists: The question “Does it work?”

And so the forgetful Bible scientist often does exactly what the world does, name calling, mud flinging, “TheCalvinists are bigots the Armenians are fools the Catholics are not Christian and anyone who disagrees with me is a sinner bound to the 7th hell.” Smug, self-righteous superiority complex.

I’veseen it in church I’ve read it in books I have read it on the net and I’ve seen it in peoples attitudes and it cannot be denied.

Now for the forgotten last step. What works? What are the fruits of these isms. Now if you think it is absurd and irrelevant to ask scholars these questions remember the “by their fruits you shall know them”. What fruits? Love, joy, peace, long suffering etc. that’s what we are talking about, and me the CC/DC asks “does going into ecstasies into the tense of the Greek text and the number of manuscripts that have the verse and the opinion of the hundreds of scholars that have written result in these, or is the strife the smugness the self-righteousness the bitterness fruits of the same spirit?”

CC/DC thinks not.

Indeed by their fruits you shall know them

CC/DC stands for confused calvinist dysfuntional christian

Calvinism

Total Depravity Because of the fall, man is so corrupt and rebellious against God that apart from the regenerating and effectual work of the Holy Spirit one is unable to repent, trust in, follow, love, please, and delight in God. Often called:Total Inability, Spiritual Death


Unconditional Election God, of His own free will and perfect wisdom, chose whom He would grant faith and effectually call to Himself, before the foundation of the world, without regard to foreseen obedience, faith, repentance, etc.

Limited Atonement Sins have either been atoned for by Christ’s substitutionary death or they will be paid for in eternal hell (not both). Jesus Christ’s death made it possible for God to forgive the sins of anyone who would believe. It is effectual for the elect (those whom God has chosen)—it purchased for them the new covenant gifts of faith and repentance. Often called: Penal Substitutionary Atonement, Particular Atonement, Definite Atonement, Personal Atonement

Irresistible Grace Grace can and will be resisted until God wills to overcome resistance. God’s inward renewing act through the Holy Spirit necessarily brings about faith and repentance, which come in response to the outward communication of the gospel. Often called:Regeneration, New Birth, Efficacious Call of the Holy Spirit

Perseverance of the Saints Only those who persevere to the end in repentant faith will be saved. God works infallibly and effectually to preserve the faith of all the elect—those who come to genuine faith in Christ Jesus and who are truly born again—so that they are never lost. Often called:Preservation of the Saints, Eternal Security of the Elect

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How does one define too much theology?

Why Another Blog

Why start another blog when my first one is barely functional , well I guess its got many reasons , one being my obsessive compulsive "new bolg"disorder.

the other being i gues it will be better to separate my ramblings from serious work.
If i ever come up with serious work that is.