Comments on: Trampolines verse Walls http://sackrider.org/category/mythoughts/trampolines-verse-walls.html Attempting to Live Life On Purpose... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:59:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dale Sackrider, II http://sackrider.org/category/mythoughts/trampolines-verse-walls.html/comment-page-1#comment-2049 Dale Sackrider, II Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:46:17 +0000 http://sackrider.org/?p=1719#comment-2049 Jason - thanks for stopping by, I appreciate your taking time to comment. Maybe I don't remember the book - I wish I could find my copy! - but I don't remember him advocating that you can simply 'remove' any dogmas you choose and keep going. Only that ANY dogma can be examined and ONLY removed if we found it was untrue. I didn't get from the book that he does not believe in the virgin birth - only that if it were NOT true, his faith could keep going. I agree with that approach. Do you believe that there are dogmas that simply cannot be questioned? As I said in my post, if the dogma is true, then it will uphold against any scrutiny. I also don't believe that removing the virgin birth would destroy Christianity... but that might be a different conversation... BTW - Get a <a href="http://sackrider.org/category/mythoughts/get-a-gravatar.html" rel="nofollow">gravitar</a> - its jacked up that I'm chatting with a pink monster... Jason – thanks for stopping by, I appreciate your taking time to comment.

Maybe I don’t remember the book – I wish I could find my copy! – but I don’t remember him advocating that you can simply ‘remove’ any dogmas you choose and keep going. Only that ANY dogma can be examined and ONLY removed if we found it was untrue. I didn’t get from the book that he does not believe in the virgin birth – only that if it were NOT true, his faith could keep going. I agree with that approach.

Do you believe that there are dogmas that simply cannot be questioned? As I said in my post, if the dogma is true, then it will uphold against any scrutiny. I also don’t believe that removing the virgin birth would destroy Christianity… but that might be a different conversation…

BTW – Get a gravitar – its jacked up that I’m chatting with a pink monster…

]]> By: Jason http://sackrider.org/category/mythoughts/trampolines-verse-walls.html/comment-page-1#comment-2048 Jason Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:28:05 +0000 http://sackrider.org/?p=1719#comment-2048 In my defense I am stating that I believe there are certain "doctrines" (dogmas is more accurate) that can not be removed without destroying Christianity. Bell chooses these as his examples. I don't claim to know what he was thinking but it is a bad choice or words at best. I do agree that there are doctrines can and should be examined, that is a great deal of what my blog is about. But it if you replace everything you no longer have what you began with, God's revealed truth. In my defense I am stating that I believe there are certain “doctrines” (dogmas is more accurate) that can not be removed without destroying Christianity. Bell chooses these as his examples. I don’t claim to know what he was thinking but it is a bad choice or words at best. I do agree that there are doctrines can and should be examined, that is a great deal of what my blog is about. But it if you replace everything you no longer have what you began with, God’s revealed truth.

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