September 30, 2008
Bailout
The media is repeating what politicians in Washington are saying, ‘that the economic crisis is so complicated and multifaceted that it can’t be explained and that most of us can’t understand it’. This seems similar to the one-time platform of the Catholic Church concerning Scripture – that the average man can’t be expected to understand the Word of God, hence the need for a priest to interpret. I’m learning that the prefaces of new Bible translations are actually telling us the same thing. In one sense Bible translators have taken the place of priests. They have convinced today’s reading public that not only is the Bible difficult to understand, it is beyond our comprehension unless they (the translators and interpreters) tell us what they think it says. How offensive is it that leaders/publishers in the religious community, as well as those in the government, presume our ignorance.
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Gail;
-----The deceit runs shamefully deep. Four years ago Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters, et al defended the “fundamentals and solid standing” of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. John McCain and many Republicans insisted there must be more regulation and oversight of these institutions, or they would collapse. Barack Obama fought against it. Who won? Seeing there were no new regulations and oversights implemented, it was not the Republicans, who are now getting blamed by those who did win, the Democrats. Now the whole mess is being used by the party who fought then for no change as a campaign ploy against the party that tried to make change. But now that it is too late, the candidate campaigning on change has engaged as an advisor the former chief executive officer (being investigated for fraud) of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines. These people are too tightly interwoven to not have known these scandals inside Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were being perpetuated in the name of affordable housing.
But it is the American public that are principally at fault. They are the ones who have developed a deadly case of naiveté. And it is seeping into the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the church, the spiritual wall separating her mind from the mind of the world. The people in the church are just as at fault for tolerating sloppy theology. Sure, the Bible gives the elders the obligation to protect the church from the promiscuous philosophical influence of the world‘s pop thought, but the people of the church no longer like elders for elders, they want youngers for elders. And face it, the shorter the life the shorter the experience. Deceit is subtle in the new paradigm of the church, until it is examined in the light of the Word. And that is what the new church paradigm needs to come back to, the Word.
Love,
Steve Corey
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