tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post111688213611553357..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: The good old daysRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1117016182097021932005-05-25T06:16:00.000-04:002005-05-25T06:16:00.000-04:00Just now looking at Tim Enloe's blog: Societas Chr...Just now looking at Tim Enloe's blog: <A HREF="http://www.societaschristiana.com/" REL="nofollow">Societas Christiana</A><BR/>it came to me that Tim Enloe is to Reformed blogging what Andrew Sullivan is to conservative Republican blogging. Both get giggly pleasure in linking to anything and everything that puts their supposed side in a bad or ridiculous light. Both set their personal issue as their standard for everything they stand for (with Sullivan it is 'whatever promotes gay sex'; for Enloe it is 'whatever promotes "my latest intellectual enthusiam inspired by the latest book I found in the library"'). Both attack relentlessly anything that opposes their favorite personal issue (with Sullivan that means attacking conservative Republicans; for Enloe that means attacking any Christians who hold to actual Biblical truth and authority such as...umm....Reformed - Calvinist - Christians.)<BR/><BR/>One of his latest links is making fun of Calvinists because they are, supposedly, culturally pedestrian. No Calvinsts write epic poems or novels, apparently. Other than John Milton and Herman Melville. Oh, but all the Calvinst/Puritan writers were written off at the beginning of the article as being 'fallen away' from the faith of their ancestors. Yet...they <I>are</I> of the Calvinist background, no? I mean, Dante thought the pope in his day was a sewer-dwelling devil, did he not? Yet he gets to be in the ranks of RC greats. <BR/><BR/>For the record: this Calvinist (me) <I>came to</I> Calvinism from a lifetime of interest and involvement with the highest, most inspired creations of art and literature and music. It is <I>what led me</I> to the truth of the Bible and of on-the-mark Biblical doctrine (Calvinism). Perhaps not all Calvinists have the same experience, but the Reformers certainly had similar backgrounds, and the Puritans certainly knew the necessity of real educations (classical educations). To judge modern day Calvinsts by (I could name a few names) just shows bad will towards Calvinism to begin with.UK67https://www.blogger.com/profile/15095910610517995965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1116932724468428202005-05-24T07:05:00.000-04:002005-05-24T07:05:00.000-04:00It also appears to me that you think Christianity ...It also appears to me that you think Christianity is a failure unless everybody makes concessions in doctrine and join the RCC (basically that is what your plea comes down to), but as somebody has already stated in a comment on your site (which you dutifully deleted, as you delete most comments on your site that don't massage your view) Jesus is fully aware of the existence of denominations and branches, and, as Steve has pointed out, outside of coercive means, it is obviously the way it is supposed to be. What you can't currently grasp is that there is something called Truth, and that it can be seen and understood. You live in a mush of relativism because you can't currently see Biblical truth. I see it, I discern that Steve Hays sees it. You can say we're wrong or self-deceived or whatever, but from our point-of-view, what we hold to is life itself, and no confused ecumenical fuzz essay is going to get someone who KNOWS THE TRUTH to abandon that Truth to any degree for whatever end. Try to grasp this.<BR/><BR/>Now that I've written the above, I'd like to add that what I've said is - and should be - obvious times a thousand. The RCC alone, in all its heretical anti-glory, with its grisly history, and its unchanged ways to this day... You speak of confessions, but you don't seem to want to follow the part in the WCF that identifies the pope with antichrist. Not that a Christian would need that to discern such an obvious thing.UK67https://www.blogger.com/profile/15095910610517995965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1116931236893314572005-05-24T06:40:00.000-04:002005-05-24T06:40:00.000-04:00Kevin, I find the belittling tone of your post in ...Kevin, I find the belittling tone of your post in response to Steve on your site to be wide of the mark. You are pulling a Dave Armstrong, i.e. when confronted with an articulate, direct critique just start playing pretend and act like the real person doesn't exist. You are salvaging yourself (you and your obvious comrade-in-arms Enloe) and your "movement" (Reformed Catholicism), but you are salvaging it all not for the real world but for your chorus solely. You are in Howard Dean territory.UK67https://www.blogger.com/profile/15095910610517995965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1116923894131239752005-05-24T04:38:00.000-04:002005-05-24T04:38:00.000-04:00Steve, as a neutral observer regarding these diffe...Steve, as a neutral observer regarding these different posts and positions I just want to say that what you've written is like a voice of sanity in a psyche ward.UK67https://www.blogger.com/profile/15095910610517995965noreply@blogger.com