So the anti-tongues crowd (and by association the whole cessationist thing) won me over. They convinced me that such things have ceased and are not for us today. So, in order to no longer be confused about it, I started Xing out all the passages about the gifts that no longer apply.
That got me thinking... perhaps I've been wrong in other things. Tribulation and the rapture have always been hotly debated, so I looked at that again and boy did the 70 ad group win me over on that one! They are right, all that went down in the first century and we no longer need to worry about it. So I started Xing out those scriptures too, again just so I wouldn't be confused by them anymore. I mean, why confuse the facts with outdated information?
Daniel and especially Revelation are long books. Xing things out was getting tedious so I just ripped those pages out altogether. I mean, we don't need them anymore and that's pretty much all they are.
It's been kinda fun, actually, it feels like cleaning the fridge of expired milk cartons.
I shared this a bit in the Revelation thread, then some guy asked why I don't just then throw the whole book out and go find a new one.
And I think that's a good question. As I sit here with red ink on my fingers and loosed pages on the floor, I'm starting to wonder - just how much can we dismiss before the whole story is discredited?
That got me thinking... perhaps I've been wrong in other things. Tribulation and the rapture have always been hotly debated, so I looked at that again and boy did the 70 ad group win me over on that one! They are right, all that went down in the first century and we no longer need to worry about it. So I started Xing out those scriptures too, again just so I wouldn't be confused by them anymore. I mean, why confuse the facts with outdated information?
Daniel and especially Revelation are long books. Xing things out was getting tedious so I just ripped those pages out altogether. I mean, we don't need them anymore and that's pretty much all they are.
It's been kinda fun, actually, it feels like cleaning the fridge of expired milk cartons.
I shared this a bit in the Revelation thread, then some guy asked why I don't just then throw the whole book out and go find a new one.
And I think that's a good question. As I sit here with red ink on my fingers and loosed pages on the floor, I'm starting to wonder - just how much can we dismiss before the whole story is discredited?