[Blogger]

I specifically spoke of PERPETUAL HERMITS as being unbiblical. You are conflating what I am saying with what you would have liked me to have said.

The objection to monasticism earlier wasn't based so much on the hermit aspect as it was in Kolo's monastic quote being unscriptural.

The conversation you joined was midstream. It needs to be seen in its full context. If monks are spreading the true gospel I have no problem with it. If monks are living perpetual lives of seclusion, I believe it is unscriptural.

[D-fendr]

thanks for your reply. You're right, my apologies, I was speaking to the larger issue.

If monks are spreading the true gospel I have no problem with it.

We likely have different ideas about what constitutes spreading the true gospel, particularly as it applies to monastics. No matter..

If monks are living perpetual lives of seclusion, I believe it is unscriptural.

If again you mean perpetual hermits, then you have very little, or very few, to be concerned about.

If you throw out monasticism on this account, you have given up a great deal for something quite small.