tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post5051388223883391315..comments2024-03-28T09:52:15.415-04:00Comments on Common Denominator: Scot McKnight's new bookKen Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-77514524074602671482011-09-04T21:58:50.328-04:002011-09-04T21:58:50.328-04:00Actually, it was the European aristocrats that wer...Actually, it was the European aristocrats that were more likely to colonize. Our Founders were given to individual liberty as to conscience, therefore, would see no value to colonization, until our nation got to be an empire, where economic interests and international relations made things much more complex...Now "colonization" might happen because of America's economic or security interests...Angie Van De Merwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617299120618867829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-30726553279932285572011-09-04T21:34:19.910-04:002011-09-04T21:34:19.910-04:00YES, one can be "saved" MANY different w...YES, one can be "saved" MANY different ways!!! Salvation is not about supernaturalism. It is about society n general.<br /><br />It is not missions, necessarily, but about restoring the principles of good government.<br /><br />Missions can be humanitarian as to the greater needs in the world.<br /><br />In fact, the Great Commission is not in the orignals....isn't that true? <br /><br />Evangelization can be patronizing to another culture. Colonizing is what our Founders understood to be nation building or bringing civilization to barbarians!!!<br /><br />I believe that what one chooses to do has to do with self-percepton most of all, as how people understand themselves is how they compare others and make judgments about them.<br /><br />But, this judgment is also how we divide ourselves in our groups defined by these definitions of what we value and the "outsider" is seen as "proof" of our justifying stances and values. But, it really proves nothing except that people can be cruel.<br /><br />Class warfare is what happens when there are discrepancies not so much in economic status, but position and power positioning in group behavior toward the outsider. <br /><br />Those that are in high society and know how to dress or behave, also should know how to be kind and gentle toward those that do not have that priviledge! Most that are secure in their social status have these graces. Those that are not as secure think it their duty to prove they are justified in protecting their place in an elite class, so they tend to "put people in ther place".Angie Van De Merwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617299120618867829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-74432480604816503722011-09-04T17:51:11.476-04:002011-09-04T17:51:11.476-04:00I agree with the general thrust of this. One poi...I agree with the general thrust of this. One point that is important to me with regard to evangelization has to do with the fact that salvation is not just fire insurance; it is healing and transformation beginning in, and profoundly affecting, this life, and in order for that to be fully effective, knowledge of the gospel and entry into the Church and participation in the sacramental mysteries is required. <br /><br />If I am dying of some fatal illness, it is possible that I may spontaneously recover; however, if medicine is made available to me that is guaranteed to heal me if I take it as prescribed, what am I going to do, if I am a reasonable person?<br /><br />A couple of related considerations: it may be possible to get to San Francisco from New York by way of Dallas, Texas and by taking a stagecoach, but if I want to get there as quickly as possible, I am going to fly.<br /><br />Also, the general question is not, "Can someone be saved if they have never heard of Christ (or, out of sincere ignorance, they misunderstand Christianity and therefore reject it)?" But rather, "Can _I_ be saved if _I_ reject Christ and stay out of the Church?"FrGregACCAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00368463715994694203noreply@blogger.com