Look, we're famous!
Hey, my profanity ravings have made a splash in the Reformed blogosphere. I'm a bad pastor, I'll go stand in the corner now. Check out the May 19th post on
teampyro.blogspot.com
I'm interested in all of your responses, but you must promise not to slander our good Calvinist brothers at teampyro. It's a great blog, especially when they post long quotes of Spurgeon.
But still, ***paragraph deleted***
Dang, that last paragraph was really witty. And it didn't have any profanity. But I cut it anyway 'cause I hate blustery blogging. Even when it's not profane.
Peace and love.
teampyro.blogspot.com
I'm interested in all of your responses, but you must promise not to slander our good Calvinist brothers at teampyro. It's a great blog, especially when they post long quotes of Spurgeon.
But still, ***paragraph deleted***
Dang, that last paragraph was really witty. And it didn't have any profanity. But I cut it anyway 'cause I hate blustery blogging. Even when it's not profane.
Peace and love.
posted by isaiah543 at 6:53 PM
10 Comments:
Mathuaer wrote:
"And while there is some wisdom in not trying to "walk the line" and fleeing from sin, I'm far more afraid of slipping over into legalism than slipping into the abuse of my freedoms."
YES! YES! That's it! Hallelujah and Amen! The stuffed parrot drops from the ceiling and announces that you win the comment of the week award. What kind of beer do you want?
Alright then, we'll split the beer. :-)
This isn't worth another post, but one of the other bloggers out there confidently asserted w/o evidence that Paul never said anything stronger than manure. The point is debatable, but not so simply assertable.
Here's the BAGD lexicon entry for the word "skubala" in Philippians 3.8. Again, due to font limitations, and abbreviations unintelligible to most, I'm editing and cleaning it up some.
useless or undesirable material that is subject to disposal, refuse, garbage (in var. senses, ‘excrement, manure, garbage, kitchen scraps’:
specif. of human excrement:
consider everything garbage/crud Phil 3:8 (``to convey the crudity of the Greek … : ‘It’s all crap’.")
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Contrary to all sound judgment, I surfed out on the big bad internet to see what the other blogs were saying about our discussion. You know, the blogs written by guys in Seattle with celtic crosses tatooed on their calves. Here's a comment I liked. Warning, no blanket endorsements here, I have no idea who these people are or what they believe about Christology or soteriology, but I like this...
http://www.boarsheadtavern.com/archives/
2006/05/21/0941270.html
OK, I have a tiny bit better idea now about what they believe about Christology and soteriology, and it's probably groovy. I mean hey, they link to monergism.com!
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By the way, CEFC veterans, you may be interested to know that movie man Todd in Seattle sometimes goes to Mark Driscoll's church on Sunday nights when he's feelin' saucy.
What really has befuddled me is the magnitude of the outrage about a pastor using a potty word. Have they nothing else more pressing to be passionate about?
Perhaps, against all reason, the "profanity never" crowd turns out to be right. Still can't we all agree that there are many sins of the tongue worse than using potty words? slander, gossip, cursing people, satanically serving the Accuser by calling pastors who cuss "slaves"...
And yet these high crimes of the tongue are regularly indulged in the reformed blogosphere.
And yet there is little outrage by comparison. 170+ comments on challies blog, 75+ comments on teampyro. What monster have we awakened? Is it that it's fun to call cussing pastors sinners because cussing is the one sin of the tongue that is relatively easy to control and so we feel the sinful pleasure of moral superiority? Or is it that we easily gain the praise of men when we stand up for the current culture's definitions of decency? Or what is it?
The poopstorm over Mark Driscoll's potty mouth continues...
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