Why I hate Theology.

mattslope · 11-03-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by slap_j

You're not being very ministerial. Try harder.

I haven't tried yet. Which of your theological questions have I failed to adress in this thread?

**slap_j** · 11-03-2009, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mattslope

I haven't tried yet.

We're in agreement.

mattslope · 11-03-2009, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by slap_j

We're in agreement.

I'm proud of you.

**slap_j** · 11-03-2009, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by mattslope

I'm proud of you.

I wish someone would love me.

mattslope · 11-03-2009, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by slap_j

I wish someone would love me.

I'd like to, but I've read Theology Forum and I know that anything resembling homosexuality supersedes the cross and instantly commits me to hell.

**Skeeter** · 11-03-2009, 01:42 PM

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I'd like to, but I've read Theology Forum and I know that anything resembling homosexuality supersedes the cross and instantly commits me to hell.

What about good-natured butt-slapping?

mattslope · 11-03-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Skeeter

What about good-natured butt-slapping?

Sinful lifestyle. God abhors sinful lifestyles. It's in the Bible.

**slap_j** · 11-03-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by mattslope

I'd like to, but I've read Theology Forum and I know that anything resembling homosexuality supersedes the cross and instantly commits me to hell.

Don't flatter yourself, el queero. If I'm going to be with another man it isn't going to be someone like you. You're a taker and would probably walk all over a sensitive guy like me. Skeeter is nice but he's married. Also, I don't think I'm gay enough for more than some brief frottage while in an otherwise manly embrace.

mattslope · 11-03-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by slap_j

Don't flatter yourself, el queero. If I'm going to be with another man it isn't going to be someone like you. You're a taker and would probably walk all over a sensitive guy like me. Skeeter is nice but he's married. Also, I don't think I'm gay enough for more than some brief frottage while in an otherwise manly embrace.

If I laugh at that, I'm going to Hell.

**Skeeter** · 11-03-2009, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by slap_j

Don't flatter yourself, el queero. If I'm going to be with another man it isn't going to be someone like you. You're a taker and would probably walk all over a sensitive guy like me. Skeeter is nice but he's married. Also, I don't think I'm gay enough for more than some brief frottage while in an otherwise manly embrace.

Consensual butt-slapping doesn't count as frottage.

Kentl · 11-03-2009, 02:12 PM

okay.... anyways i hear what you guys are saying its deep

butt lets put all of this Theology talk behind us

Gwenny · 11-03-2009, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Skeeter

Consensual butt-slapping doesn't count as frottage.

I love how a once serious thread degrades into frottage and butt-slapping in so few posts.

Kentl · 11-03-2009, 02:15 PM

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I love how a once serious thread degrades into frottage and butt-slapping in so few posts.

i love how a thread in cpf was sirous for more then two posts

***BillSPrestonEsq*** · 11-03-2009, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mattslope

I'd feel more comfortable drawing from Professional theologians, who are in the business of training and equipping me.

Are you saying that Academic theologians are wrong due to their attitudes, or that I am?

Maybe a little bit of both. I hate the dichotomy between academics and good living, and I try, (and I am sure fail miserably) to bridge that chasm. Professional theologians are just academic theologians with a paycheck imo. And many of the self-professed academic theologians are not very academic or much into studying God for that matter.

Basically,

Jeremiah 9: 23 This is what the LORD says:
"Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom
or the strong man boast of his strength
or the rich man boast of his riches,

24 but let him who boasts boast about this:
that he understands and knows me,
that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight,"
declares the LORD.

I just had to finish translating this. (That is NIV, mine is horribly grammatically awkward and coarse)

What stuck out to me are the parallels with Job. Can we understand and KNOW God?

How much of our rigor is spent on knowing his lovingkindness, justice and righteousness, and how much of our intellectual pursuits are merely cause to boast in our understanding and wisdom?

mattslope · 11-03-2009, 02:52 PM

I'll freely admit that I'm a prideful jerk. The fact that I don't see a reason to change is one of my greater faiures.