tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post1227264976778601395..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: Unfathomable unbelief (re-post)Phil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-34661704080966904332013-06-28T14:28:45.884-07:002013-06-28T14:28:45.884-07:00I don't say it's always easy, but the diff...I don't say it's always easy, but the difference here I think isn't between compassion and enablement, but between affirming God's trustworthiness and implying the opposite. Verses like Heb. 4:15; 5:2; Jude Only:22 and others caution me against a lying pose as if I know nothing personally of temptation, weakness, ignorance, frailty. I don't have only two choices: "Your doubt makes perfect sense" and "How dare you doubt, weak infidel?!" There's also, "Ah me, I wish I could say I didn't know how you feel but I totally do. But here's what challanges me when I'm feeling that way:..." or "...what has helped me see it differently."<br /><br />Like that.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-2019286283628449192013-06-28T14:23:21.529-07:002013-06-28T14:23:21.529-07:00I'm trying to process how this relates to empa...I'm trying to process how this relates to empathy. Is it good for me to hear someone's sin story and think "I understand where you're coming from, but..."? Should sanctification result in seeing righteousness as so utterly blessed, and sin as so utterly accursed, that I can't even fathom why temptations are tempting?<br /><br />And even in that process, there's the danger of becoming Pharisaical (I can't believe how those guys sin!) rather than Pauline (Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!). Growing disgust at the insanity of sin should only heighten the sweetness of the gospel.trogdorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452996348717802065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-90587236321825822992013-06-28T08:09:37.823-07:002013-06-28T08:09:37.823-07:00I think it's my favorite, which is saying some...I think it's my favorite, which is saying something.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-6907307047174027912013-06-28T08:06:35.395-07:002013-06-28T08:06:35.395-07:00Just a thought that, of all the pomo posters, this...Just a thought that, of all the pomo posters, this one seems the most nuanced, as if it could be read different ways depending on the context of where it was posted. Just $.02Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13068196575763786944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-45922800272931192412013-06-27T06:50:07.385-07:002013-06-27T06:50:07.385-07:00Truth!Truth!Michael Coughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151414777657994736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-67674600432199655152013-06-27T05:59:11.287-07:002013-06-27T05:59:11.287-07:00Enjoyed the post.
Enjoyed Tom's comment as we...Enjoyed the post.<br /><br />Enjoyed Tom's comment as well however, now I want to watch The Princess Bride.<br /><br />Paul Nevergallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358541335927749277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-41062334055204742982013-06-27T03:29:06.597-07:002013-06-27T03:29:06.597-07:00Excellent point. I was preaching earlier this wee...Excellent point. I was preaching earlier this week on the Calming of the Storm, another point at which Jesus said pretty much the same thing: "Why are you afraid? Do you have so little faith?" <br /><br />His question seems inconceivable. Some of the disciples were professional watermen; they probably knew people, or at least knew of people, who had died in exactly that sort of storm. Fear was natural, and His question seems absurd.<br /><br />Yet clearly their lack of faith in Him is <i>equally</i> absurd and inconceivable to Him. It's something I try to remind myself of often when I struggle with fear and doubt. If Jesus spoke this way to the disciples while on earth, I imagine Him now shaking His head at me and saying something along the lines of "Really? I rose from the dead, ascended into Heaven, sent the Holy Spirit, established a world-wide church...and you're worried about <i>this</i>?"Tom Chantryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485908616177111150noreply@blogger.com