What's your bent?
Last night in the intro to theology class I am taking we talked about the idea of why Jesus had to die. What did his death on the cross accomplish?
One thing that had been going through my mind was although there are the 4 general ideas that are somewhat mutally exclusive we take and use them all. I wonder what the original proponets of these ideas would think when on a Sunday morning we sing "He Paid A Debt", followed bu "The Old Rugged Cross". Would they have a negative reaction?
We also talked about the fact that people's views of why Jesus died are reflected in both their Lord's Supper comments and or prayers. Thinking some about this I realize we all probably espouse the "Ransom" idea one week and "Penal substitution" the next. (huh, huh he said penal). When I realize things like this it makes me realize that in many ways when it comes to theology most of us act like we are at Golden Corral. "Yeah, I'd like some of the Anselm with a bit of Calvin on the side."
Is this good or bad? Does it really matter?
Chad
One thing that had been going through my mind was although there are the 4 general ideas that are somewhat mutally exclusive we take and use them all. I wonder what the original proponets of these ideas would think when on a Sunday morning we sing "He Paid A Debt", followed bu "The Old Rugged Cross". Would they have a negative reaction?
We also talked about the fact that people's views of why Jesus died are reflected in both their Lord's Supper comments and or prayers. Thinking some about this I realize we all probably espouse the "Ransom" idea one week and "Penal substitution" the next. (huh, huh he said penal). When I realize things like this it makes me realize that in many ways when it comes to theology most of us act like we are at Golden Corral. "Yeah, I'd like some of the Anselm with a bit of Calvin on the side."
Is this good or bad? Does it really matter?
Chad
posted by The Chad at 9:30 AM
1 Comments:
While I know I have been guilty of buffet theology (a necessity if you want to be a true syncretist), I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the death of Jesus and way it was needed and I’m almost convicted that he died to establish pattern. That death would be the way of the followers of Christ. I know that this doesn’t speak to the why of your blog, but I thought maybe we all need one more option.
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