7311	Forums / Theology Forum / Orthodoxy - Chesterton	on: June 23, 2007, 09:25:26 AM
Bill Bennett, will you continue to post more of CH? Ive not read much of him. I think he was dealing with a different mindset tho. Orthodoxy can become mechanical and dry. It can also give one an excuse not to care about people personally. Maybe the answer is to teach a little bit more on the doctrine of perseverance of the saints as it relates to the fellowship of the saints. Today God is a complete mystery. Propositions are contradictory but held as equally valid. We face an intricately woven set of explanations that have evolved over years of church history. We are in the biggest mind battles of all time. The NT. scholars exegesis has been honed for 2000 yrs and now we are learning more and more about ourselves through science and the rapid exchange of information. Historical theological views prior to the computer age seem to be outdated. The minds of people have been programed through the ideas and practical nature of discovery in answering the problems of the human condition. We now face a knowledge of truth in relation to its accessibility and work ability rather than a logical drawn out study of theology. Questions as to God and origins  are more important than the facts themselves because we have lost the spiritual discernment to separate the common things from the uncommon. In this culture we mix philosophy and psychology with theology. We bring in the cast system of the temple money changers because we do not revere Gods nature or His invisible glory. Our theological perspective is mysteriously scientific. What we are facing is kind of like the beginnings of a cat 5 hurricane as it relates to the degeneration of the American society. We were warned   by the theologians in the 60s, as to the future problems that evolution, abortion, and humanistic science in large numbers of the population would create so the effects of a ripple of suffering that would be seen in this storm of this godlessness. We are now seeing the clouds form and the beginnings of the gale force winds whipping up. We are going to face the full effects of suffering in the hurricane winds of persecution if there is no reformation.