Comments for Looking for Questions http://lookingforquestions.com Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:10:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Simply Christian: Part 1 by brian http://lookingforquestions.com/2010/06/simply-christian-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4506 brian Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:10:46 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=715#comment-4506 sometimes personal faith needs to breathe, other times decanted, and then another may be great sipped straight from the bottle. sometimes personal faith needs to breathe, other times decanted, and then another may be great sipped straight from the bottle.

]]> Comment on Simply Christian: Part 1 by Jaz http://lookingforquestions.com/2010/06/simply-christian-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4504 Jaz Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:00:29 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=715#comment-4504 "...but it left me wondering if this assault of evidences allowed room for faith strong enough to withstand uncertainty." oooooo...me likey. i'm interested to see where this leads, brother! “…but it left me wondering if this assault of evidences allowed room for faith strong enough to withstand uncertainty.”

oooooo…me likey. i’m interested to see where this leads, brother!

]]> Comment on Are We Called to Make a Stand? by DAD http://lookingforquestions.com/2010/06/are-we-called-to-make-a-stand/comment-page-1/#comment-4466 DAD Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:27:57 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=688#comment-4466 Jason, I continue to be impressed with your writings. This piece is very insightful. I like you feel we need to be constantly seeking ways to have a life as Jesus would want us to have. Obviously that can prove to a challenge. Keep up the great writings!! God is definitely using you! I love you DAD Jason,
I continue to be impressed with your writings. This piece is very insightful. I like you feel we need to be constantly seeking ways to have a life as Jesus would want us to have. Obviously that can prove to a challenge. Keep up the great writings!! God is definitely using you! I love you
DAD

]]> Comment on A Fresh Read of the New Testament: The Voice by Dad http://lookingforquestions.com/2010/04/the-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-4216 Dad Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:29:44 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=676#comment-4216 Jason, It is so good to see new comments from you, it has been too long. I will have to take a look that this new translation of the Bible. Sounds quite interesting. It may give a new perspective on early morning quiet time that I have grown accustomed to. Love you-- DAD Jason,
It is so good to see new comments from you, it has been too long. I will have to take a look that this new translation of the Bible. Sounds quite interesting. It may give a new perspective on early morning quiet time that I have grown accustomed to.

Love you–
DAD

]]> Comment on Will All Be Beautiful in the End? by brian http://lookingforquestions.com/2010/02/will-all-be-beautiful-in-the-end/comment-page-1/#comment-4182 brian Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:18:51 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=656#comment-4182 i think we missed a month in there somewhere... care to venture out from the hermit hole? i think we missed a month in there somewhere… care to venture out from the hermit hole?

]]> Comment on Will All Be Beautiful in the End? by TP http://lookingforquestions.com/2010/02/will-all-be-beautiful-in-the-end/comment-page-1/#comment-4020 TP Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:13 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=656#comment-4020 I think your point is well taken . . . and Wilson's metaphor involving light v. dark shades of color is badly mistaken. Wilson asks (presumably rhetorically), . . . How can we judge? On the contrary, how can we not judge? Wilson looks at the world as a picture and (apparently) says We're not the artist . . . so we shouldn't presume to change a thing. But evil should always be opposed, shouldn't it? Does Wilson argue we should be ambivalent about evil because God needs the darkness to make His picture pretty? The problem of how/why evil exists in a world created by a loving God has been the subject of a good many books and sermons over the centuries; whatever the solution to that problem is, it cannot be that we simply sit back and mutter . . . Hey, I can only see a single line, a single page . . . so how can I even begin to judge how to make this world a better place . . . or me a better person? Returning to Wilson's metaphor, this world is beautiful in spite of the darkness . . . not because of it. God does not need the darkness to make His picture beautiful; rather, He is the ultimate artist who can use the darkness to bring light to his creation. How and why, we don't know; or need to know. But we should never believe His ability and willingness to sometimes use the darkness to bring forth shades of light is evidence he somehow wants the darkness to be on His palette. Keep up the good work. Interesting stuff. I think your point is well taken . . . and Wilson’s metaphor involving light v. dark shades of color is badly mistaken. Wilson asks (presumably rhetorically), . . . How can we judge? On the contrary, how can we not judge? Wilson looks at the world as a picture and (apparently) says We’re not the artist . . . so we shouldn’t presume to change a thing. But evil should always be opposed, shouldn’t it? Does Wilson argue we should be ambivalent about evil because God needs the darkness to make His picture pretty?

The problem of how/why evil exists in a world created by a loving God has been the subject of a good many books and sermons over the centuries; whatever the solution to that problem is, it cannot be that we simply sit back and mutter . . . Hey, I can only see a single line, a single page . . . so how can I even begin to judge how to make this world a better place . . . or me a better person?

Returning to Wilson’s metaphor, this world is beautiful in spite of the darkness . . . not because of it. God does not need the darkness to make His picture beautiful; rather, He is the ultimate artist who can use the darkness to bring light to his creation. How and why, we don’t know; or need to know. But we should never believe His ability and willingness to sometimes use the darkness to bring forth shades of light is evidence he somehow wants the darkness to be on His palette.

Keep up the good work. Interesting stuff.

]]> Comment on Will All Be Beautiful in the End? by Brian http://lookingforquestions.com/2010/02/will-all-be-beautiful-in-the-end/comment-page-1/#comment-3813 Brian Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:53:16 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=656#comment-3813 I concur. Rob Bell's current tour "Drops Like Stars" promotes his new book release in which he addresses the "problem of pain" from a similar angle as Wilson in Tilt-A-Whirl. I think just such an angle of understanding leaves us little leverage on life and hope. It is rather a watery and abysmal dismissal of the good Christ did in His particular suffering, redemption and resurrection (not to mention, the aftereffect we now enjoy of longing and looking forward to the restoration of all things to their right and proper purpose). Such a perspective offered by both Bell and Wilson also leaves Christianity by and large a bit wanting in its waiting, because it keenly omits a necessarily redemptive characteristic of pain, suffering, and evil which is, namely, that evil has no explicable validation for existing in the first place. Said purposelessness of pain (as Lewis would have told it) is very part and parcel to evil’s core identity and thus we have the "hope filled tragedy" of the cross. My point, if we are to vitally maintain our hope (as Christians) and to offer hope (in a Godless and hopeless world, steeped in its own sin and suffering), then we must help paint a more accurate (albeit less picturesque) portrait of both evil and redemption, and altogether eliminate with earnest outrage the incredulity of a Yin and Yang causality (which is most post-modern and yet altogether ancient in origin). I concur. Rob Bell’s current tour “Drops Like Stars” promotes his new book release in which he addresses the “problem of pain” from a similar angle as Wilson in Tilt-A-Whirl. I think just such an angle of understanding leaves us little leverage on life and hope. It is rather a watery and abysmal dismissal of the good Christ did in His particular suffering, redemption and resurrection (not to mention, the aftereffect we now enjoy of longing and looking forward to the restoration of all things to their right and proper purpose). Such a perspective offered by both Bell and Wilson also leaves Christianity by and large a bit wanting in its waiting, because it keenly omits a necessarily redemptive characteristic of pain, suffering, and evil which is, namely, that evil has no explicable validation for existing in the first place. Said purposelessness of pain (as Lewis would have told it) is very part and parcel to evil’s core identity and thus we have the “hope filled tragedy” of the cross. My point, if we are to vitally maintain our hope (as Christians) and to offer hope (in a Godless and hopeless world, steeped in its own sin and suffering), then we must help paint a more accurate (albeit less picturesque) portrait of both evil and redemption, and altogether eliminate with earnest outrage the incredulity of a Yin and Yang causality (which is most post-modern and yet altogether ancient in origin).

]]> Comment on Creation: Chaos or Beauty? by jbarmer http://lookingforquestions.com/2010/01/creation-chaos-or-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-3438 jbarmer Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:46:37 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=633#comment-3438 Great article by Donald Miller on Pat Robertson’s comments: http://donmilleris.com/2010/01/13/1513/ Great article by Donald Miller on Pat Robertson’s comments:

http://donmilleris.com/2010/01/13/1513/

]]> Comment on My 2009 Top Five by tim http://lookingforquestions.com/2009/12/my-2009-top-five/comment-page-1/#comment-3340 tim Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:42:06 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=626#comment-3340 Congratulations on a fantastic year. I can relate with some of these and have been working on my own top list of 2009 (haven't finished it yet but you are inspiring here). It's almost the same stuff, baby boy, U2 concert). Hey, I'm also glad that you found a new church to connect with. Very happy for you and Krista and I can't wait to meet Jude. Congratulations on a fantastic year.
I can relate with some of these and have been working on my own top list of 2009 (haven’t finished it yet but you are inspiring here). It’s almost the same stuff, baby boy, U2 concert).
Hey, I’m also glad that you found a new church to connect with. Very happy for you and Krista and I can’t wait to meet Jude.

]]> Comment on Baptizing Babies by brian http://lookingforquestions.com/2009/10/baptizing-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-2962 brian Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:23:17 +0000 http://lookingforquestions.com/?p=564#comment-2962 Jason, so sorry we're going to miss the big day for you guys and for Jude, but we will be with you in spirit (so long as Anglican tradition allows for that)! Post pics!!! bka Jason, so sorry we’re going to miss the big day for you guys and for Jude, but we will be with you in spirit (so long as Anglican tradition allows for that)! Post pics!!!

bka

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