catch 22 and fundamental christians

Posted by MG on January 01, 2004 at 02:03:55

In Reply to: Re: So this is fine with you then? posted by Acheick on December 31, 2003 at 10:24:15:

I can't say I agree with you. As I wrote above to Observer, I felt that Alan was putting Eva's post down pretty dogmatically with the God is not the author of confusion stuff.

Eva talked very much in the 'personal journey' register. Alan doesn't leave any room for others to be on a personal spiritual journey that might be in the least just as valid as his.

That's the Catch-22 for fundamental Christians, because their belief system says "neither is their salvation in any other', so they can't discuss what they believe without saying you can't be saved until you believe what I believe. But sometimes that can be quite difficult to have truly enriching discussions about your or my personal spiritual journey. How much have the truly fascinating things Eva brought been talked about? I think the thread could have developed differently.