October 19th, 2009
What drives a concern for thinking about set theory? This is a sub-text in this ongoing conversation. Maybe set theory is a ruse for being soft on sin. We don’t want to obey the Bible’s teaching on sin, so we are trying to find a way around it, and set theory is a convenient sin dodge. The bounded set seems to be driven by a concern for moral rigor or moral purity. Therefore any attempt to consider a different approach must be driven by a concern to accomodate to the surrounding culture when it comes to sin.
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January 9th, 2009
This question of identity and how we understand ours as Jesus followers is important. It’s fraught for a reason. We’d like to think it’s all about convictions. If I have X convictions then I’m an X. If my convictions are Y then I’m a Y. As usual we think we’ve got more control over this than we do.
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