“[2K] also teaches that the nature of genuine religion is precisely private, personal, and not something for public display or consumption. . . .Which invites the question: If it is possible to keep such essential aspects of faith as prayer and almsgiving private, even within the privacy of one’s devotional life, why wouldn’t it be possible for a serious believer to keep that faith bracketed once entering the public square or the voting booth? The very essence of faith, at least the Christian variety, might be that it is private, personal, and something to keep distinct from expression in the public arena of politics.”
D. Gnostic Hart
A Secular Faith, pp. 176-177
This little light of mine
I’m gonna hide its shine
This little light of mine
I’m gonna hide its shine
Hide its shine
Hide its shine
Hide its shine
Hide it under a Bushel?
Oh YEAH! I’m gonna hide its shine
Hide it under a Bushel?
Oh YEAH! I’m gonna hide its shine
Hide its shine
Hide its shine
Hide its shine
I’ll help Satan blow it out
I’m gonna hide its shine
I’ll help Satan blow it out
I’m gonna hides its shine
Hide its shine
Hide its shine
Hide its shine
Hide its shine til Jesus comes.
I’m gonna hide its shine.
Hide its shine til Jesus comes.
I’m gonna hide its shine,
Hide its shine til Jesus comes.
I’m gonna hide its shine.
hide its shine, hides its shine, hide its shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna hide its shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna hide its shine.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna hide its shine.
hide its shine, hide its shine, hide its it shine.
hide its shine, hide its shine, hide its it shine.
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Really, that is a great quote from Hart!
I have just one qualm. How dare he publish such wonderful (but necessarily private) insights in such public square fashion? He would do better telling God about these things from the cushy privacy of his prayer closet. Let us all now strike his comments from our memory so as to protect the libertarian sanctity of his individual faith.
Such good fun to mock and ridicule this R2K idiot.
That quote was bewildering. Excellent God honoring response!
“Go ye into all the world and hide the gospel?”
COME OUT
Come out as a sinner,
One who claims that God
Has sent his only Son
To keep His Holy Law,
To suffer in our place
Removing our distress.
Our precious antidote
His blood and righteousness.
That quotation was deadly, and your response was God honoring and life giving.
Go ye into all the world and “hide” the gospel. My local body was proposed the idea of “spreading the word” that we are a “gay friendly church” using Christ’s “failure to condemn” the woman taken in adultery in John 8 as part of an argument. The shear irony of spreading this “good news” is falling on ears fatigued with years of dialectic corporate media demonstrations. Although a different issue, this seems to highlight that the mechanism for “change” is firmly in place. Coupled with the ignorance and negligence of God’s law the church is hot asphalt ready to be leveled and cold rolled. Dare anyone come out?
COME OUT
Come out as a sinner,
One who claims that God
Has sent his only Son
To keep His Holy Law,
To suffer in our place
Removing our distress.
Our precious antidote
His blood and righteousness.
Sorry I can’t contain myself:
I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW
I can see clearly now, God’s Law is gone,
I can see no obstacles in our way
Gone is God’s Law Word made up our own mind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day
Teachings like this:
If it is possible to keep such essential aspects of faith as prayer and almsgiving private, even within the privacy of one’s devotional life, why wouldn’t it be possible for a serious believer to keep that faith bracketed once entering the public square or the voting booth? The very essence of faith, at least the Christian variety, might be that it is private, personal, and something to keep distinct from expression in the public arena of politics
Lead to statements like this:
I think this might turn on the distinction between the moral and political. Believers are personally obligated to that which is moral in faith and practice. But that doesn’t mean they are obligated to a political outlook or conclusion. So, Christian Jane mayn’t herself have an abortion, but she may vote or even make legislation contrary to this. As someone opposed both morally and politically to abortion, I’ll certainly grant that there is something obviously wrong with the sort of logic that opposes abortion morally but protects it politically (paging John Kerry). But the personal obligation a believer has is moral, not political or logical.
http://confessionalouthouse.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/dvd-on-abortion/#comment-7831
So, to have an abortion is a sin, but, to support it politically isn’t? The same person has also said the same thing concerning a straight up and vote on the issue.
This is a witnessing of following this form of 2k theology to it’s logical end.
A good post on this here:
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/06/does-two-kingdoms-lead-to-or-entail.html
WE ARE WE ARE
Whatever we say we are we are
To self we are resigned resigned
Irrational bizarre bizarre
When we are self defined defined
SCARECROW
First this way then that
Stuffed shirt compromise
Off there flies his hat
Crossing both his eyes
Left and right sound bites
Double thinks it through
A balance he must strike
All that he can do
Proudly undecided
Safe in no man’s land
Searching for the center
Will not take a stand
Saying everything
Well as nothing too
He is the argument
Without a point of view