The Blog Of Dysfunction

From Ben Meyers here.
Some quotes.

Worship is a holy tautology.
Does worship make God present? No, worship presupposes God’s presence. But God’s presence is unlike any other. “God does not exist,” said Kierkegaard, “he is eternal.” Compared to all existents, God’s presence is an absence. The Holy of Holies is empty. If worship is fundamentally eucharist, you [...]

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From Barna Via Viatmin Z
Some Intresting ones

“only 15% of those who regularly attend a Christian church ranked their relationship with God as the top priority in their life.”

Why am I not surprised.

Most Americans have a period of time during their teen years when they are actively engaged in a church youth group. However, [...]

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I was wondering, what was God doing before creation?
Did he create many such other worlds before this one?
Is this fall-salvation an eternal cycle?
Is the eternity only as old as the creation?
I wonder. As I wander

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It was about four years ago when began to realize that a lot of philosophical/ spiritual/ ideological stands I had so far been considering the gospel were in fact not the most internally consistent and obvious at all. Over these years I have been searching hard for the most internally consistent and reasonable ideologies. [...]

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For those who came late, my best posts from the archive.
Best as defined by me, not by the number of hits or comments.
Dysfunctional Christian. My declaration of guilt.
My Greatest pleasures. An introduction to me.
By their Fruits. Theology, the Holy Spirit and the scientific method.
Father Brown. The genius detective on forgiveness.
Humanizing the heroes. Superheroes fell, why [...]

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It hurts, it sucks, it’s unfair, its real, it’s irreversible, it changes everything for a while and nothing for very long, it makes me angry, it makes me cry, it makes me search for a dark empty place inside me to shut away all the emotions, it screams at me when I call [...]

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One thing is clear, the result of the christian faith is neither consistent nor always reproducible, everyone has different fruits. Some don’t.
So then the question is it internally consistent?. Or are there gaping voids in it’s fabric that have no good explanation.
Perhaps. I do have doubts, maybe not gaping voids but doubts nevertheless.
Question: What about [...]

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