tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post7603017602047785139..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: David Brooks of the New York Times on Fundamentalism and ReligionKent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-6363054646930475032015-01-23T17:14:46.023-08:002015-01-23T17:14:46.023-08:00I guess I'm not a fundamentalist then, as I ta...I guess I'm not a fundamentalist then, as I take Scripture literally where I believe it is meant to be taken literally, and figuratively where I believe it is meant to be taken figuratively.<br /><br />I also do not take into account anything historically ( meaning to bring in historical aspects of the times and places of the Bible and when it was written when reading the Bible ), as, to me, they have no real weight with what the text is actually saying.<br /><br />Scripture alone is all I believe that I need. That and the presence of the Holy Spirit guarantees that I should be able to understand it with diligence and effort:<br /><br />" As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby." 1 Peter 2:2<br /><br />" But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." 1 John 2:27<br /><br />God's grace to all.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-37114226061920242312015-01-12T23:24:19.416-08:002015-01-12T23:24:19.416-08:00That passage is Mr. Brooks's column certainly ...That passage is Mr. Brooks's column certainly was rather annoying seeming to rely on the conception of fundamentalist as some sort of a hybrid between Osama Bin Laden and Fred Phelps, and reflects the ignorance of the nuances of conservative Christian theology among sectors of our intellectual elite. He is certainly a conservative politically however albeit a fairly moderate one in our degenerate days. As for NYT columnists in general, Ross Douthat and Paul Krugman are much more palatablehoracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10524194181420604820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-37145148580935142982015-01-12T04:33:49.087-08:002015-01-12T04:33:49.087-08:00One does not become 'David Brooks, op ed guy...One does not become 'David Brooks, op ed guy' by believing he Bible. His real job is to parrot the party line of unregenerate man and add one more voice to the echo chamber of their vain philosophy. If enough of them shout 'there is no God!', then it must be true, right?Michael S. Alfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01662467336357195633noreply@blogger.com