tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29128991.post115039411210448679..comments2023-10-10T09:50:34.565-07:00Comments on Find and Ye Shall Seek: A New ReformationMystical Seekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828225180668865911noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29128991.post-43142370433213901532009-02-19T19:36:00.000-08:002009-02-19T19:36:00.000-08:00After reading your posts I thought Borg sounded in...After reading your posts I thought Borg sounded interesting. I have read plenty of Spong and agree with much he has to say. However there seems to be a lot of criticism of Spong and I wondered if that was from the traditional church or was it all biblical scholars. So I figured a read of Borg could be enlightening.<BR/><BR/>I was surprised to read Borg simply outlining how to read the bible metaphorically and how to consider God as something beyond the father-in-the-sky model. I thought both of these concepts would be so well entrenched throughout the christian world that they almost go without saying. But Borg spends a lot of time trying to convince us that the bible is not literal and that God may be 'everywhere and everything'.<BR/><BR/>After reading Spong for many years it was really a watered down version. An author writing very cautiously to a conservative Christian audience as he tried not to upset them with the knowledge that Christian educational institutions has known for 50 years.<BR/><BR/>Either way I think there will be a reformation - its a matter of whether it takes 20 years or 100 years. The newer generations that grow up recognising pluralism, incorporating science and other objections to their faith, will slowly adapt their beliefs to something that matches their experience of the world.<BR/><BR/>Maybe we could take the best teaching of all religions ?Whitefellahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03035831775582969960noreply@blogger.com