Quotables


"What if there are thousands of John Calvins out there.... what if God decided to make a lot of them gay?"
- Brian McLaren

"Don't rob me of my hate!"
- Count of Monte Christo responding to a request to forgive his enemies

"State report says Texas has too many reports"
- actual newspaper headline

"I don't like you...I don't like anyone!"
- Dr. House to the new chairman of his hospital

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
- Tyler Durdern in Fight Club

"Do we have to stand up for the national anthem...we have to do that in India"
- A friend from India telling me this before a movie started here in a U.S. theater

"The notion that this life is no more than a preparation for a life beyond, is a theory of a refusal to live, and a religious fraud. It is inconsistent with the living God, who is "a lover of life".
- Jürgen Moltmann, The Coming of God

"The gods will do noting for us that we won't do for ourselves!"
- From Beowulf

"British schoolteacher convicted and deported, forced to rename teddy bear 'Cassius'"
- humorous headline about the teacher who named a teddy bear Mohamed

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."
- Jerry Seinfeld

"Daddy, just surprise yourself!"
- My daughter in response to "what should I have for dinner?"

"Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective"
- Rob Bell in Velvet Elvis

"My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master."
- Ralphie describing his dad in A Christmas Story




12 Dec, 2007 | Virgil
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by plymouthrock - 12 Dec, 2007 - 22:40:28
Hey Virgil,

Can you activate my blog feature?

by Virgil - 12 Dec, 2007 - 23:16:19
Drop me a message with your name and contact info so you can get setup: http://planetpreterist.com/...

by plymouthrock - 13 Dec, 2007 - 14:27:41
That's been the issue Virgil, when I go to the address you cited it says "Go back, this Module is not active."

by Chris L - 13 Dec, 2007 - 17:20:33
Virgil - can you sign a complaint against Gump at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... and can you send me an email at lyons8804@earthlinkNOSPAM.net?

by Dana Nathan Salsbury - 13 Dec, 2007 - 17:53:08
"The notion that this life is no more than a preparation for a life beyond, is a theory of a refusal to live, and a religious fraud. It is inconsistent with the living God, who is "a lover of life".
- Jürgen Moltmann, The Coming of God


I guess that's true if you think that this is it. You have to believe that there is more to this life to refuse to "live". The living God also loves faith and discipline. I would say that you could not call Him a living God if there is no afterlife AND this life contains trials; in that case He would be A god, because trials are inconsistent with a living God. Who is Jürgen going to worship in an imperfect world?

by Virgil - 14 Dec, 2007 - 00:24:39
Dana, I think Moltmann is speaking in terms of people being Christians just in order to avoid hell and prepare for heaven. At least that's what I got from reading him.

by Dana Nathan Salsbury - 14 Dec, 2007 - 01:32:11
Interesting. The quote makes him sound like an atheist. If the trials we go through are not for a reward beyond the grave

I don't understand his phrase, "no more than a preparation for a life beyond..." IMO, our trials are our daily bread, and full of nutrients. If I look at them any other way, I'm doomed to ascribe to a "Murphy's Law" view of life. I can't afford it, because it leads to mistrust, then sin as I believe that God is not looking after me.

I don't know Moltmann's views from one quote, but he's onto an important topic. Having written a book on Heaven I appreciate its motivation for the believer, but I can also see a breaking point in the person who considers his spiritual authority in heaven (someday) as not worth the fight.

by Virgil - 14 Dec, 2007 - 08:56:09
Dana, Jürgen Moltmann was a German theologian. You can read the article on Wikipedia for more details on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

by Dana_Nathan_Salsbury - 14 Dec, 2007 - 23:28:46
Thanks Virgil.

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