“Be careful how you stare into the abyss,” Nietzsche wrote, “lest, eventually, you find the abyss staring into you.” We tend to become like what we behold — and staring too long into the lunacies of the newspaper exegetes can undermine the health of our own walk with God.”
So...if we spend all our time, talents & treasures thinking of creative ways to mock, ridicule & scoff at other believers’ non-essential theology, what does that say about us?
That we sincerely love our brothers and sisters in Christ, wish them well, and are livid with rage at stupid ideologies that rob them of so much that God wants for them, so much God expects from them.
So...if we spend all our time, talents & treasures thinking of creative ways to mock, ridicule & scoff at other believers’ non-essential theology, what does that say about us?
I have a little slogan that I trot out sometimes in these discussions: "Bad Eschatology Has Consequences".
Ones theology is a system, with interconnections all over the place. I care about dispensationalism because I see consequences for holding that belief in the area of soteriology, which is central.
I'm thinking I should queue up a reread of Vos' Pauline Eschatology.