In Reply to: sitting on the fence posted by George on July 26, 2004 at 12:08:32:
emotion on one side & brain on the other side of the fence...
Well, I can also see Acheik's point of not anymore having to swallow blindly what one Bibleteacher has to say, I can wholeheartedly agree to that...but what I have difficulty with, even on the exers sites, is this:
just because some Bibleteachers have been very wrong about many things, pretty much on the front I bet you find Berg, it doesn't have to be, that they were wrong about everthing...I find, people are really again extremists...in order to show -
for healing's sake or whatever - that they are really out & against you find them tearing down about everything, even to the point, that pretty much the sound evangelical side (facette) of Berg & TF gets thrown out with the bathwater...
Quite a few things you find ridiculed at movingon or elsewhere aren't Bergish at all but are just bits & pieces from the Bible & also other movements, including some songs & chorals etc...
As I said before here, I don't care about the big work,to distiguish what has been good (sound) & what wasn't in TF...but nobody would have joined TF unless there wasn`t some good to it, that's plain senseless, you don't get attracted by pure evil, unless being "constructed" that way...
Anyway...yes, I do compare much more than ever before or like before, because in a way I was always comparing things lots before I bought them,
in a material sense...so in all I see things probably very similar & am glad, I can compare things, have that freedom,collecting information, but Gödel taught me also - besides the Bible - that certain things can't be proven, whether they're right or wrong...and there Acheik would have a point...but I doubt, whether that applies to Chiliasm ; )
I guess I have a similar liking for finding out, where things have gone wrong in Dogmatism...in history...not exactly in easy field though