Comments on: Mohler, Hamilton, Ware on NPR News

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:46:14 +0000

@Stephen, No dissonance there. Mohler is saying that McLaren is standing out from Orthodoxy, afraid to stand out from the culture.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:21:13 +0000

I find it fascinating that Mohler doesn’t find cognitive dissonance in statements like this:
“I’m sure he’s tapping into an exhaustion, a fatigue, a sense of wanting to be culturally relevant, a sense of not wanting to stand out from one’s peers and neighbors,” Mohler says. “I certainly understand that. I just believe that the cost of following that route is literally the abandonment of historic, biblical Christianity.”

He’s attacking McLaren for “standing out” as he says that he doesn’t want to “stand out.” Very fascinating.

By: Lucas Knisely

Lucas Knisely — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:24:18 +0000

I thought about this this morning. When you have a church, religion, or faith built on what you like rather than what God has revealed, how can you stop people from teaching what you don’t like within your church, religion, or faith? Without a rule of faith, how can you tell someone they can’t teach something?

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:42:07 +0000

How does he reconcile that with Hebrews 9, especially verse 22 ‘In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.’

Sounds like McLaren has a problem with God’s revelation of himself to the world, the Bible.

By: Denny Burk

Denny Burk — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:17:18 +0000

Apologies to the three people who had left a comment in this space. I accidentally deleted this post and your comments with it! You’d think that I’d have the hang of this by now.