Good luck Donalgrant... there are a lot of us in recovery from fundamentalist upbringings! Peace!
Thivai | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 1:14 am | #

Such foolishness. Judging pure Biblical doctrine by your own ignorance and by the actions, words, and emotions of men.

I wrote a single common on something called the Boar's Head Tavern (full of Christians like yourself) and they shut their enitre comments system down - permanently. What did I write? I suggested that once one has the foundation one needs to ...bult the house? Yes? Calvin said the same? Hebrews 6:1 if you're paying attention TELLS you this. Once you have the foundation - the 'fundamentals', if you will, whatever the state or level of awakeness and or self-awareness or coolness of the various people who call themselves fundamentalists is - once you have the foundation KEEP IT. Fool, don't abandon the foundation in a misguided need to 'find more'. The more you need has to be BUILT ON THAT FOUNDATION.

You're all so freaking dumb. I think it's because you're so in the world and so easily manipulated by the devil in the world. The accusing, the shaming, the fear-inducing based on your desires and on your own fears. No independence of mind, no strength to STAND.

Come, children, let me lead you. I will show you how to build the house you need. You must have the foundation first. Yes, five solas, doctrines of grace apostolic Biblical doctrine...
Christian | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 11:44 am | #

I wrote another comment to this post:

http:// backofthenorthwind.blogsp...amentalism.html
Christian | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 12:00 pm | #

"you are all so freaking dumb" what a sad, sad "Christian" you are, obviously you have no clue about the foundations of the religion that you preach.
Thivai | Email | Homepage | 04.17.05 - 2:27 am | #

Thivai, Americans talk like that, like verbally hitting someone in the side of their head with a frying pan. That type of thing. Anyway, fake, surface niceties are OK in society but they don't necessarily reflect any real spiritual development within.
Christian | Email | Homepage | 04.17.05 - 1:02 pm | #

Hell is a metaphor of course, but C.S.Lewis give what I find as a vivid portrait in The Great Divorce. "Those in hell are only those who choose it." (no cutoff).

I don't think Lewis quite achieved MacDonald's firm conviction of universalism, but he must have wondered.
Larry Clayton | Email | Homepage | 05.03.05 - 5:59 pm | #

Take the fun out of mental.
World Peace Religion | Email | Homepage | 08.16.06 - 1:05 pm | #