tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post2217943117650583434..comments2023-09-30T15:56:17.784+00:00Comments on Fairing's Parish: AnnoyanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-30847019538003728692010-06-13T19:23:45.787+00:002010-06-13T19:23:45.787+00:00Dear Ones,
I like the contemplation and conversat...Dear Ones,<br /><br />I like the contemplation and conversations going on here. Looking forward to reading more. Peace,<br /><br />DianeD.M. SOLIShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13753807150268735755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-42016134230709704362010-06-12T14:33:08.700+00:002010-06-12T14:33:08.700+00:00PS The question of whether I would believe differe...PS The question of whether I would believe differently if I had been born in different surroundings seems to me to be an interesting curiosity, but to have limited consequences to what I ought to believe. Issues of probability always make my head hurt, and there is no control me (actually it would require a whole battery of control mes), to make a sensible comparison. It helps that I was RJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128262293399766342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-50020448557233846482010-06-12T14:31:08.294+00:002010-06-12T14:31:08.294+00:00You say: "Unless religious authority cannot b...You say: "Unless religious authority cannot be demonstrated through logical/critical argument: but then how does one know that one's own is correct?" Substituting something a little vaguer for "religious authority", like "religious truth" -- I'm a Protestant and authority as a concept raises isues for us which are not necessary here -- then that's RJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128262293399766342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-3552118520019237162010-06-06T11:19:10.639+00:002010-06-06T11:19:10.639+00:00I suppose before really one needs to establish a c...I suppose before really one needs to establish a clear definition of terms before the discussion can get down to specifics, since 'evangelical' has such a wide range of meaning. As you say, by 'reclaiming' the word from certain others you're making it clear that your beliefs are not necessarily theirs, so it would help to know what they are. But for a short answer, that does nwjvfoihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06922964878285220114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-43589886251217373852010-06-04T00:38:32.201+00:002010-06-04T00:38:32.201+00:00I have a whole blog post I started drafting severa...I have a whole blog post I started drafting several years ago called "Why I am an Evangelical Christian". Or actually I think it might be "Why I am an Evangelical Liberal" -- the two terms both being much disliked by the higher end of the church, which predominates in Cambridge. (At Cambridge I encountered people for whom these were dirty words in the way that "liturgy&RJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128262293399766342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-36775953648982186072010-06-04T00:18:55.289+00:002010-06-04T00:18:55.289+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.RJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128262293399766342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-80299513464983869862010-06-03T23:22:13.977+00:002010-06-03T23:22:13.977+00:00Out of interest, if it's not too big a questio...Out of interest, if it's not too big a question: why are you an evangelical Christian?nwjvfoihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06922964878285220114noreply@blogger.com