tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.comments2023-04-27T04:07:06.136-07:00All That To Say...Mark Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02540050430568723424noreply@blogger.comBlogger669125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-10381875772598712492022-05-22T05:35:56.945-07:002022-05-22T05:35:56.945-07:00Great reading your bloog postGreat reading your bloog postLillyhttps://www.lillyfisher.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-50943286210630753112018-09-03T15:02:38.988-07:002018-09-03T15:02:38.988-07:00Are you tired of seeking loans and Mortgages,have ...Are you tired of seeking loans and Mortgages,have you been turned down constantly By your banks and other financial institutions,We offer any form of loan to individuals and corporate bodies at low interest rate.If you are interested in taking a loan,feel free to contact us today,we promise to offer you the best services ever.Just give us a try,because a trial will convince you.What are your Financial needs?Do you need a business loan?Do you need a personal loan?Do you want to buy a car?Do you want to refinance?Do you need a mortgage loan?Do you need a huge capital to start off your business proposal or expansion? Have you lost hope and you think there is no way out, and your financial burdens still persists? Contact us (gaincreditloan1@gmail.com)<br /><br />Your Name:...............<br />Your Country:...............<br />Your Occupation:...............<br />Loan Amount Needed:...............<br />Loan Duration...............<br />Monthly Income:...............<br />Your Telephone Number:.....................<br />Business Plan/Use Of Your Loan:...............<br />Contact Us At : gaincreditloan1@gmail.comGain Credit Pvthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01903651303295187086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-34470715554954927782015-09-09T23:46:15.040-07:002015-09-09T23:46:15.040-07:00[Shurangama Sutra]
[The Diamond Sutra]
[The Heart ...[Shurangama Sutra]<br />[The Diamond Sutra]<br />[The Heart Sutra]<br /><br />~oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ~<br /><br /><br />/Six samsara /<br />/Cause and effect/ <br />/Engages in introspection sees the nature/<br />/Do not beg abhiññā/<br /><br />Ksitigarbha<br />Amitābha<br /><br />"Bhaiṣajyaguru<br />The Twelve Vows of the Medicine Buddha upon attaining Enlightenment, according to the Medicine Buddha Sutra are:<br />To illuminate countless realms with his radiance, enabling anyone to become a Buddha just like him.<br />To awaken the minds of sentient beings through his light of lapis lazuli.<br />To provide the sentient beings with whatever material needs they require.<br />To correct heretical views and inspire beings toward the path of the Bodhisattva.<br />To help beings follow the Moral Precepts, even if they failed before.<br />To heal beings born with deformities, illness or other physical sufferings.<br />To help relieve the destitute and the sick.<br />To help women who wish to be reborn as men achieve their desired rebirth.<br />To help heal mental afflictions and delusions.<br />To help the oppressed be free from suffering.<br />To relieve those who suffer from terrible hunger and thirst.<br />To help clothe those who are destitute and suffering from cold and mosquitoes."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-8866850465517462022012-05-25T10:37:49.247-07:002012-05-25T10:37:49.247-07:00Great article Mark! (I think) But... suppose someo...Great article Mark! (I think) But... suppose someone reads this article 250 years from now and is trying to understand what you meant. How would you recommend they proceed? Would your answer to this question have a bearing on what you are working through now? Oh... you're welcome! Ray McC... :o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-816228388745414772012-05-25T10:27:03.953-07:002012-05-25T10:27:03.953-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-28610046551122731632012-02-12T05:39:57.447-08:002012-02-12T05:39:57.447-08:00I have moved to theological understanding about sa...I have moved to theological understanding about salvation.<br /><a href="http://www.tipskey.com/article/salvation_checklist/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tipskey.com/article/salvation_checklist/</a>Aunnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-71102564207963727622012-01-18T16:06:19.759-08:002012-01-18T16:06:19.759-08:00Thank you Mark, I really appreciate your insights....Thank you Mark, I really appreciate your insights. It seems that I end up addressing a lot questions from Christians by using historical-critical method to sketch the range of possibilities, but at the end of the day, we all have to take the vastly more disturbing step of making a leap of faith (whether or not we recognize it). Perhaps we should strive to be better citizens of the Kingdom and let go of our impulse to litigate.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06154556994302825043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-25837322548453492822012-01-15T06:58:25.359-08:002012-01-15T06:58:25.359-08:00Ben,
I'm certainly not going to tell you how ...Ben,<br /><br />I'm certainly not going to tell you how to spend your $50k, but I didn't say we can't teach your son how to read the Bible. I only said that one way that has been taught doesn't deliver what it promises. In fact, the problem is that some thought that the only way to have a defensible reading of Scripture in the academy was to learn to read it like an engineer. Unfortunately, neither God nor sacred texts hold still enough for such an approach. Fortunately, the historical-critical method has not been the only way that Christians, past and present, have read the Bible. So, their are choices for your son. I have found a much more satisfying way of thinking about Scripture and God. Blessings on your search.Mark Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604310637632798277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-84853928892481203892012-01-11T16:31:40.131-08:002012-01-11T16:31:40.131-08:00This is simply outstanding, Mark. A great piece. ...This is simply outstanding, Mark. A great piece. Very useful.joey tiltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-52224433379621717132011-12-30T04:28:06.029-08:002011-12-30T04:28:06.029-08:00"Of course, such apostolic hermeneutics, grou..."Of course, such apostolic hermeneutics, grounded as it is in the interlocking convictions that God is sovereign in history, is working in history his one redemptive plan focused in Jesus the incarnate and reveals this one plan with one Voice through Scripture’s human voices and historical eras, will only seem cogent and compelling from within this framework. <br /><br />Evangelicals whose calling address the academic guild of biblical scholarship may find little receptivity among colleagues for a claim that first-century fishermen, tax collectors, and one notable rabbi are more reliable guides into the meaning of the collection of Ancient Near Eastern religious texts Israel revered as Scripture than are the methods and resources linguistic, literary, and historical research now available. <br /><br />Then again, the guild’s suspicions concerning the appropriateness of the Testament’s intertextual engagement with the Old may be only one symptom of a more comprehensive repudiation of the worldview presented in the Bible. Those called to the academy should count the defense of apostolic hermeneutic as part their apologetic mission to the guild in which they serve." Dennis JohnsonPaytonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-82573520114730011062011-12-24T07:33:52.286-08:002011-12-24T07:33:52.286-08:00Seriously, I am going to send my son to you along ...Seriously, I am going to send my son to you along with $50k and you can't figure out how to tell him how to read the Bible? <br /><br />The guys at the electronic and architecture engineering departments can't get away with that. Stuff falls down and people get hurt. <br /><br />We will be looking at another school. Thanks for the post.Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-2870100803023581192011-12-01T14:12:52.147-08:002011-12-01T14:12:52.147-08:00One of the reasons I enjoy lectio divina in a smal...One of the reasons I enjoy lectio divina in a small group is the notion of "what is the text saying to me right now" or "what is this text saying to my friend right now". I find this experience refreshing. And as reluctant as I am to say what God does or does not do, I sense the spirit at work in these times - especially when participants share similar thoughts. I also think there is validation of these more "immediate" translations when filtered through a group of spirit-filled friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-77412800655235801492011-11-29T10:24:55.751-08:002011-11-29T10:24:55.751-08:00Thanks for your reflections. I just finished Scot ...Thanks for your reflections. I just finished Scot McKnight's "The Blue Parakeet," which offers some similar thoughts. I wish I had read it a couple of years ago when it first came out. I appreciate your voice in the conversation.Steven Gaineshttp://stevengaines.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-25875794973413478512011-11-21T11:26:50.518-08:002011-11-21T11:26:50.518-08:00Ray, Thanks for adding to the discussion. As you p...Ray, Thanks for adding to the discussion. As you probably know, I like environmental metaphors for talking about many aspects of faith. I might steal this periodic table thing. I like the diversity your image brings. I do want, though, something a little more moving through time-ish. I want for their to be a way for some of these elements to go inert and for new ones to come into existence. That's why I tend toward narrative metaphors.FWIWMark Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02540050430568723424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-2117919582554827292011-11-21T09:53:05.869-08:002011-11-21T09:53:05.869-08:00I'm with you on this one Mark. I'm not sur...I'm with you on this one Mark. I'm not sure what Bonhoeffer meant either but I am sure of this.<br /><br />The Christ in whom we believe and who we follow and who we are all about... was not religionless...<br /><br />So... we should be?<br /><br />Nope nope nope.<br /><br />Balance, as always, is the key and if we foibled followers would fain become fabled followers, we need to remember the pendulum swings fastest over the middle and that's where a leap of faith would do us wonders.<br /><br />Too easy to always be stepping off at the end of the swing where the pendulum slows to a stop and we can comfortably and safely step off at one far end or the other...<br /><br />Non-spiritual religion is no healthier or useful for us than religion-less spirituality.<br /><br />If a sincere and authentic religion is what a deeply spiritual Jesus practiced, then maybe we should be content to following his example in this.<br /><br />Or... maybe we shouldn't be content until we ARE following his example in this...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-82283405142671059872011-11-21T07:23:05.289-08:002011-11-21T07:23:05.289-08:00Love the post Mark.
It parallels some of my thoug...Love the post Mark.<br /><br />It parallels some of my thoughts recently about the overarching nature of the Bible text. One non-reducible way to think about the biblical text is to view it as the 'Periodic Table' of spiritual elements--the raw material God gave us to build the spiritual world he intended for our habitation. The kingdom of God.<br /><br />Just as surely as the earth contains all of these basic and varied elements he MEANT for us to discover, explore, use, and build with, the word and the Word contains all of the elements we need and are meant to take and shape and craft in our own place and time. Not to suit ourselves, but to suit God AND ourselves--to suit 'The Relationship'. We didn't perceive glass from sand or steel from ore until we had made progress to certain levels in our development. I like to think of theologians and other spiritual leaders as the 'spiritual scientists' that help us achieve new levels of accomplishment and proficiency in spirituality and Christlikeness (Eph 4).<br /><br />New discoveries in scripture are the new 'raw material' and how to 'refine' them or 'synthesize' them, then combine them holistically to build new and remarkable lives, facets of the kingdom of God.<br /><br />Jesus is our 'prototype'. Well, Adam was our prototype, but he chose poorly and ceased to be the 'right stuff'.<br /><br />Jesus, our second Adam, chose the Father and so proved to be made of the right stuff. God took the same raw material he has given us, and produced Jesus our Lord--a true son of the kingdom of God who grew to be its Lord. And He has told us we can 'build' the same kind of life and kingdom in our time if we let him help us.<br /><br />"Nothing we purpose to do will be impossible for us..." Genesis 11<br /><br />(Come to think of it, Walter Brueggeman even looks like a scientist... You would too, if only you would start preaching in a lab coat and using a clip board to hold your Bible! ;o)<br /><br />BTW... I'm working on a version of the Periodic Table of Spiritual Elements<br /><br />;o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-21767312345248435172011-11-21T07:04:43.540-08:002011-11-21T07:04:43.540-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-27453020603089800482011-11-21T05:06:12.026-08:002011-11-21T05:06:12.026-08:00A wonderful insight shared...and you met Iris Murd...A wonderful insight shared...and you met Iris Murdoch! I love everything I read on Dreaming Beneath The Spires.Thank you!Voodoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04051011928955649391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-5546002670456858562011-11-16T21:50:15.881-08:002011-11-16T21:50:15.881-08:00Waiting for the rest of the commentary.Waiting for the rest of the commentary.Lisa Gonzales-Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01400304702010165231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-58129592206673265492011-11-16T19:06:33.891-08:002011-11-16T19:06:33.891-08:00Mark,very interesting. I'll be looking for mo...Mark,very interesting. I'll be looking for more!Karen Sampsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-41537979840384857082011-11-16T16:59:11.822-08:002011-11-16T16:59:11.822-08:00A twelve year old I know recently told me that I&#...A twelve year old I know recently told me that I'm the most religious person he knows. "Like you go to church every week." I took it as a compliment.Sara Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09765877785454048212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-74384420145713532362011-11-16T14:40:09.316-08:002011-11-16T14:40:09.316-08:00Your words bring reminders of Keifert's ideas ...Your words bring reminders of Keifert's ideas in Welcoming the Stranger and also the book Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals - books you "made" (bah hah :o) Bill and I read when we served on staff together. These perspectives led to the development of meaningful liturgy that still continues as part of the worship and community life of E.C.Shelley Neilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04290337522709343663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-14936085357932929522011-11-16T14:37:24.771-08:002011-11-16T14:37:24.771-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Shelley Neilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04290337522709343663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-25400508363313158702011-11-16T13:37:00.885-08:002011-11-16T13:37:00.885-08:00Good use of the stop sign as an analogy, esp with ...Good use of the stop sign as an analogy, esp with the idea of an author behind it. I certainly don't see the Bible in that light.<br /><br />I have many of the same books you do. They worked for me for years but now have me wondering. Can the Word of God be more dynamic than we want to allow it to be?<br /><br />Looking forward to more on this.Warren Baldwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17956713921509659993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318702029180659203.post-30291913857959851032011-11-14T07:59:46.341-08:002011-11-14T07:59:46.341-08:00Warren
I hope to follow up on this post. Stay tun...Warren<br /><br />I hope to follow up on this post. Stay tuned.<br /><br />mlMark Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02540050430568723424noreply@blogger.com