tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post1907744476045296803..comments2024-03-27T08:37:26.489-04:00Comments on Not Another Episcopal Church Blog: The Purpose of the Parables Kinda Got Left OutUndergroundpewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-62735283897002479742011-08-02T17:34:03.907-04:002011-08-02T17:34:03.907-04:00RE: "However, you are more than welcome to jo...RE: "However, you are more than welcome to join the rank and file who pray that one day he will find happiness."<br /><br />Oh, I think most of UP's blog readers recognize who is and who is not happy -- particularly those who are not happy with his posts which point out the rank hypocrisy of his church!<br /><br />It's fascinating to watch revisionists and liberals in the Episcopal Church get so angry, just because one blogger points out what's left out in lectionary readings and postulates the reasons why.<br /><br />All they can do is rant about how unhappy they think the blogger is. <br /><br />Heh.<br /><br />Keep up the great work, UP! You have a lot of readers in this diocese.<br /><br /><br /><br />Signed,<br /><br /><br />Watching and Reading In The Diocese of Upper South CarolinaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-12627238115535970282011-07-12T18:33:06.385-04:002011-07-12T18:33:06.385-04:00Well, then, Hallelujah!
And the anons don't re...Well, then, Hallelujah!<br />And the anons don't really know you, or perhaps even Really care, else they would have asked you themselves.<br /><br />They apparently have a different definition or parameters for joy. Or even happiness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-46724133097669260972011-07-12T09:51:57.631-04:002011-07-12T09:51:57.631-04:00Thanks Rob+,
Greater minds than mine have grapple...Thanks Rob+,<br /><br />Greater minds than mine have grappled with the question of happiness. The happiness we are to gain when we enter the Kingdom of God is simply beyond our current comprehension. Earthly happiness is another issue, and I assume that Anon and anon are presuming me to be unhappy in the earthly sense of the word. As I like to say, I am insanely happy. I know where joy is to be found. I have experienced the Joy of being in the Lord's arms, I wish that for everyone, and I long for the day when His will is done and His Kingdom comes. <br /><br />"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."<br />C. S. LewisUndergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-58070193510757963282011-07-12T02:22:40.662-04:002011-07-12T02:22:40.662-04:00UP,
Do you not find "happiness" in your ...UP,<br />Do you not find "happiness" in your faith in Christ, in your personal relationship in Christ Jesus and the salvation that is yours both in faith and in hope?<br />Are these anons people you know and who are making reference to the person and character of your persona and in-person identity?<br /><br />Further, did you ever call the Church (I presume anon meant the denomination) "wicked" because a committee chose to leave out sections - important sections - of various pericopes for the sake of - what, expediency? Don't think so, considering the length of several of the Gospel readings during the Easter season. Or, what, unreliability? Don't think so, or the end of the Matthew Gospel would never make it. Or, what, difficulty? Maybe, but wouldn't that be counter to Jesus' very teaching in the missing section? <br />Well, in any case, your do-gooders lay on as much condemnation and judgmentalism as they fear you have. I don't see it. I see your frustration in a Church, mirrored in your own home church, that seems to refuse to be confronted by the Gospel catholic, being quite Marcionite as a by-product. But I don't see you as bereft of the Love of God.<br /><br />As I read it, whether the section from this past Sunday is or the coming Sunday is left in or removed, they still identify how Jesus perceived those to whom he was speaking and why he used parables. If we wanted to avoid Jesus speaking that wicked bad old testament stuff then should we not read these chapters from Matthew at all? <br /><br />Godhead with a whip?? Wow.<br />Well,,,actually,,,,,yes, in the 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year B. We'll hear it in the next Lenten season.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-17668567555614646042011-07-11T13:11:01.369-04:002011-07-11T13:11:01.369-04:00Anon 1:19
You aren't going to win with the UP...Anon 1:19<br /><br />You aren't going to win with the UP! <br /><br />However, you are more than welcome to join the rank and file who pray that one day he will find happiness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-49115157358603543142011-07-11T09:34:22.395-04:002011-07-11T09:34:22.395-04:00Anon 1:19 am,
All I did was put back what was tak...Anon 1:19 am,<br /><br />All I did was put back what was taken out and ask the question, "Why?" <br /><br />My answer to that question appears to disturb you. Should I not pose the question?<br /><br />Changing the subject into a personal prayer for the author avoids the issue of "cut and paste" lectionary readings.Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-8738234070651256382011-07-11T08:07:29.217-04:002011-07-11T08:07:29.217-04:00Anon, while your comment was directed to UP, let m...Anon, while your comment was directed to UP, let me suggest that s/he bemoans what appears to be an <i>institutional</i> unwillingness to acknowledge the existence of judgment as a the that which necessitated Christ's incarnation and sacrifice. It is that judgment and Christ's atonement which indeed demonstrate His love for us. But His love is meaningless absent God's righteous judgment. <br /><br />Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-46212963763445541642011-07-11T01:19:53.814-04:002011-07-11T01:19:53.814-04:00UP, whoever taught you to cut and paste did you no...UP, whoever taught you to cut and paste did you no favor. In the past six of your blog posts, the entire subject has been that wicked church leaving out the portions of Scripture that YOU are smart enough to know are there (your comment about how other Episcopalians probably don't know the Bible is enlightening).<br /><br />As a longterm Episcopalian, I am perfectly aware of the sections that are being left out. Unlike you, I am also someone who has read the Old Testament, and noted the parts in the New Testament where Jesus rejects the brutality and bloodshed of the old world. <br /><br />If you wish to think of Christ as a sort of Godhead with a whip, there is no one to prevent you from doing so. But when YOU are leaving out sections of the New Testament that describe Christ's love for us, that describe how He lived and died a painful death on the Cross BECAUSE he loved us---remember you are doing the very same thing as those you criticize.<br /><br />There are so-called Christians all over the world who get the repentance call, and the fate of those who do not follow Him---but who miss the whole reason for His taking Human Form, and enduring what He endured---because he LOVED us and wanted us to repent. You must have repentance, yes----but only if there is a reason for it, and that reason is the love of Christ and His willingness to bring us to salvation.<br /><br />This is harsh language, I know, and I am sorry that it sounds harsh. What grieves me more is that never in one of your posts have I gotten the feeling that you know that you are deeply loved by your Savior, and that He rejoices in your every breath.<br /><br />I will pray with my every breath that first you stop writing these dreary cut and paste "what-they-left-out-and-I'm-telling" blogs; and second, that someday you learn that Christ loves you more than you can begin to imagine and comprehend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com