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[Jefferis Peterson]

On 2/14/04 9:20 AM, "Frank Wm Nagy" <fwmnagy at acd.net> wrote:

> So you now have the titles of a couple of his articles, let me give you the
> email address of the fellow so you can take a look for yourselves.
> 
> The title, God Is Bigger Than Any One Religion, looked suspect to me, but it
> turns the thought around on itself to talk turkey that God is bigger than our
> little theology and how He is right when we are wrong and how we need to get
> in line with what He thinks.
> 
> The site is called Mr. Renaissance. www.mrrena.com <http://www.mrrena.com/> .

I thought his ideas were good, but when dealing with Islam, for example, we
have different concepts NOT about God¹s right to make the rules, but of
sources of revelation and authority. Islam¹s whole concept of religious
obedience is Œsubmission,¹ not rationalistic individualism, which is our
temptation to rebellion in the West.  The problem we face when dealing with
Islam is: "whose revelation is the right one and therefore must be obeyed?"
That is a much harder debate to win than the illogic of all religions lead
to the same God idea of liberalism.
The Christian problem is that we don't and won't obey the revelation that we
claim to believe. So we aren't in  submission to our God.
 Conversely, our western irreligion in the public square that "no religions
are true because there is no god" -  is as tough a nut to crack in the
opposite direction. "How do you prove God?" is as hard a question as "how do
you prove our revelation is the true one and yours is false?"

So, in the West, we claim to believe but don't submit and in the end we act
like practical atheists - just doing whatever the h*ll we want because we
don't believe God is real enough to be feared or obeyed.

Jeff
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