tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post7265057764683429475..comments2024-01-03T07:56:32.311-05:00Comments on quaker oats live: back in the eastAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07488876505679035140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-85146630465441378332008-09-17T23:57:00.000-04:002008-09-17T23:57:00.000-04:00Very interesting, Cherice. You will have a great ...Very interesting, Cherice. You will have a great time writing your thesis. My comments, though, are more for Brooke. I think we should take the scripture at face value: I am a pacifist, and Jesus said we all should be. We can't control another's actions against us, but as far as it depends on us, live peaceably. It makes no difference how much someone else pounds us, our response is to meet fire with love. As far as it depends on us, that it, our half of the equation, is Christlike.<BR/><BR/>Gr. RalphAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-78290958838926126262008-09-11T18:11:00.000-04:002008-09-11T18:11:00.000-04:00ohh! i'll be interested to read what you say on t...ohh! i'll be interested to read what you say on those passages Cherice. Romans 12:1-21 was the topic of bible study on Tuesday. I aruged with Pastor P. about the conditional that I see in 12:18:<BR/><I>If it is possible, so far as it depends on you</I>, live peaceably with all.<BR/><BR/>on the one hand i see the pacifism in the scripture, but on the other, the conditional, taken literally, to me says clearly that it's not always possible to live peaceably with all. we looked at the NRSV, the New Jerusalem and the Message and there was a conditional in each one - though Pastor P. disagrees with me. (of course you know i fall on the side of the pacifism and i really wish it were worded differently)<BR/><BR/>it's too bad we're moving back to exodus next week as i'd love to see what the folks in bible study have to say about 13. (we have a very lively bible study each week, grappling with the same kinds of big issues it sounds like you are going to tackle in your thesis).<BR/><BR/>good luck in trying to figure out what next - i'm pondering the same thing these days.<BR/><BR/>i need to send you a package, i've not forgotten. just a lot on my plate right now - i'm doing 3 CPT presentations next week! and a couple of others for work, plus comprehensives ever looming.<BR/><BR/>:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com