tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post4970452490315311054..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Blogging about the evils of blogging about the evils of blogging about...Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-13770576820083274492012-05-30T18:51:46.012-04:002012-05-30T18:51:46.012-04:00good checks and balances to help keep any one guy ...<i>good checks and balances to help keep any one guy from too much power</i><br /><br />Steve Hays is one guy who has yet to be checked or balanced. He's like the Incredible Hulk with a twist: the angrier he gets, the smarter he gets. In the Hall of Superheroes, he's got his own unique display.John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-40652142161875423832012-05-30T18:42:41.534-04:002012-05-30T18:42:41.534-04:00AMEN! It seems to me that only "some" th...AMEN! It seems to me that only "some" theologians are worthy enough to have their thoughts and interpretations posted for others to see. Whenever anyone questions them, we're evil for being bloggers! ridiculous! (and i'm not even speaking of Sproul, perhaps he and another prominent pastor of whom i'm thinking are buddies???)<br /><br />Ultimately, if you put yourself out there, on the internet, you can hardly begrudge when people disagree with you loudly. I think it helps to balance things out anyway, good checks and balances to help keep any one guy from too much power.Rebecca K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16890819248976415947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-4930189429461383652012-05-30T07:13:27.597-04:002012-05-30T07:13:27.597-04:00"There is someone wrong on the Internet. It’s..."There is someone wrong on the Internet. It’s probably you. Log off, hug your kids, kiss your wife, and go get some of His rest. The world will not only be there when you get back, it will have been made better."<br /><br />Sorry Jr. can't "kiss his wife" anymore. She died a few months ago.<br />But Jr. still has 8 "kids to hug". <br />I think Jr. should "get some of His rest". <br /><br />Rested warriors fight better.Ron Van Brenkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15623171051016737306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-71432614030323955322012-05-30T01:12:16.243-04:002012-05-30T01:12:16.243-04:00In all this reading, all this key-stroking, what w...<i>In all this reading, all this key-stroking, what we are really stroking is our egos.</i><br /><br />Then you, Mr. Sproul, need to get the heck out of the home-schooling movement. He's one of the proponents that advocates home-schooling even through college as much as is humanly possible, but the problem is he couldn't do so without recommending taking online courses in exchange for meeting in person with other individuals. Your remarks are rock-solid, Steve. There are plenty of actually dangerous things to complain about without complaining about young people being "too involved" in studying theology (is that even possible?). Sproul Jr. hear needs to stop whining and be grateful.<br /><br />In my humble unbiased opinion (coughcough*), this is a hand-tip to the fear that people like him have. When you can't trust young people even after they're practically ready to marry and live alone to survive college on their own, then you're a deeply fearful person. I think our Mr. Sproul Jr. just had a build-up of the fear of the freedom people have on the internet and felt compelled to diss it but, like you said Steve, did so out of mock piety and without care of self-contradiction.<br /><br />Some might say I'm being too harsh, but this is how these people think. Younger Christians aren't supposed to have the guts to enter the ring and defend their worldviews against the opposition because that's too dangerous and should be avoided. If he didn't think that he wouldn't recommend against attending college. Now, even though Christians regularly enter the blogosphere and successfully refute false religions and false doctrine, all Sproul Jr. has left is to assume we're doing so out of pride, therefore it's still some big bad thing that must be avoided just like college.<br /><br />Sorry if any fans of his don't appreciate my words, but he implicated pride on the parts of certain people, so he left himself wide-open to the same charges. We have enough trouble with cultic fundamentalist legalists trying to spread their fear to other Christians already without popular figures like Sproul Jr. coming along and messing things up too.<br /><br />Thanks once again, Steve, for your response.Prince Asbelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06084817183123423099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-11905330090529869912012-05-29T17:49:17.590-04:002012-05-29T17:49:17.590-04:00I have always enjoyed opportunities to "test ...I have always enjoyed opportunities to "test my thoughts" on hostile discussion boards. Sometimes it gets <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/11/for-dave-armstrongs-readers.html" rel="nofollow">unpleasant</a>, but it's the best way I've found to understand what your interlocutors are thinking, and how best you can respond to them in a meaningful way.John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-414624755254744092012-05-29T17:36:30.033-04:002012-05-29T17:36:30.033-04:00The great thing about online debates is that you g...The great thing about online debates is that you get real interaction with real people. It's not like reading a book on apologetics or some highly academic book. Those have their place, of course, but scholars will allow you to make moves that your atheist neighbour across the street will challenge and your book on apologetics more often than not will present objections to the faith as forcefully as internet atheists will and it's good to see how intelligent Christians handle them. It's like having a front row seat to a real life clash of ideas.<br /><br />Seeing people debate theology online has made me a better exegete, theologian, and Christian. Of course you're bound to see some knobs arguing online too but isn't that true of any medium?David J. Houstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846106292250369261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-16196187394528440722012-05-29T15:18:11.688-04:002012-05-29T15:18:11.688-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-86474399332936532422012-05-29T15:06:04.828-04:002012-05-29T15:06:04.828-04:00:-):-)John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-54397248801537984172012-05-29T14:56:27.467-04:002012-05-29T14:56:27.467-04:00Prayers ascending for Beth and you.Prayers ascending for Beth and you.Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-11485145468412946262012-05-29T14:46:50.512-04:002012-05-29T14:46:50.512-04:00Thanks Truth, I guess we are the "divides&quo...Thanks Truth, I guess we are the "divides" part. <br /><br />Since you all are here, I'll tell you I am at the short stay unit at the hospital. Beth had her regularly-scheduled bone marrow biopsy. We will get the results from that on Friday, but in the meantime, based on all her other tests, he thinks the leukemia is gone. At this point, if she is disease free, there is about a 90% chance that she will not relapse.John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-36436445335603585362012-05-29T14:38:07.641-04:002012-05-29T14:38:07.641-04:00Three of the most divisive people in the Christian...Three of the most divisive people in the Christian blogosphere, constantly engaged in theological conflicts and disputes, all on this post/thread: Steve Hays, John Bugay, and Rhology.<br /><br />God bless you all.Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-73516722528773509142012-05-29T14:09:46.256-04:002012-05-29T14:09:46.256-04:00At least I think you are real ... :-)At least I think you are real ... :-)John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-55981231571208946732012-05-29T13:55:45.210-04:002012-05-29T13:55:45.210-04:00I like how you think I'm a real person.I like how you think I'm a real person.Rhologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14245825667079220242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-68107396457697696662012-05-29T12:48:20.081-04:002012-05-29T12:48:20.081-04:00There is no such place as "on the Internet&qu...There is no such place as "on the Internet". It is a method of communication, and we are communicating with real people.John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.com