Emerging rant

I started today in a good good mood, since I've found some medicine for my accursed Delhi belly, and I'm already feeling better. More alive. But somebody came knocking from my past and ticked me off. So this post is not so sweetness-and-light as usual.

I really didn't want my blog to be yet another contribution to the innumerable emerging church blogs, but hey, I read them, and I have to comment. Feast on this.

Highlights:

1)

"Since there's no absolute truth, everything's up for grabs. The individual is the sole determiner of truth."

Somebody did not do the reason and argument section of her philosophy course. The dichotomous reasoning is so painfully puerile I need sunglasses to re-read it. Yes, she did say that. Something that gets me about critics of Emergent is a seeming complete inability to see in shades of grey. "You dispute the processes by which we arrive at truth, and question whether we can ever attain a pure truth (free from the culture and biases of the people who sought it), and therefore there is no truth whatsoever, anywhere. One big free-for-all orgy of hedonism." Right. I forgot that the world was black and white.

2)

Jud 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jud 1:12 These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
Jud 1:13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Jud 1:16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

Jud 1:17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus
Christ. 18 They said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions."

Jud 1:19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.

Jud 1:20 But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
Jud 1:21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Jud 1:25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

The masterstroke of the argument: quoting a bible passage to defeat the opposition. Genius! So, the emerging church can safely be ignored.

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