Re: The Holiness of Rap Debate

"Mike, Doulos Iesous Christos"
> I'm a didactic thinker, as most everyone in my age group, and older are.
> We were raised in an atomsphere of absolutes; to understand and respect
> absolutes; to reference and test everything by absolute truth, facts and
> verifiable knowledge.
>
> Most people younger than I are dialectical thinkers.
>
> Raised in a world that rejects absolutes as intolerant, and bigotted,
> dialectical thinkers crave personal philosophical investigation to find
> their answers. All things become relative, and are subject to
> interpretation for the purposes of personal application.

> When I study the Bible, I ask myself "Am I living as this Scripture
> instructs, submitting to it's absolute authority, or am I rebelling
> against it; catering to my flesh?"

You *could* also be misunderstanding the scripture in its context, just as
could be the case with anyone else, whether your or their thinking is
"didactic" or "dialectical."

Actually, you have *proven* that you are not what you say you are, and are
actually given to personal interpretation and what you yourself call
dialectic thinking.  In the past few days you have given various scriptures
and basically told us what *you* think they mean.  And what you think they
mean *is* debatable, not because all things are relative, but because you
*could* actually be wrong.  I have personally taken a look at the scriptures
you've given and believe you've had to stretch to reach some of your
conclusions.  Does that make me rebellious?  Does that make you wrong?  Does
that make the truth relative?  No to all of those.  It simply means we're
all learning.  I think most of us involved in this conversation have the
deepest respect for scripture and its truths.  That doesn't mean that when
we see things differently, it's because of intolerant or bigotted views of
absolutes.

-Breeze