Back with more cheap (but fun) blogging. Here are a few more in the “I do not think it means what you think it means” category.

Dioecism, a plutonian philosophy, illustrates Christ as all divine only appearing as human…Aryanism views Christ as partly human and partly divine.

Let me try to paraphrase this rather complicated sentiment: “The dominant worldview of the Hellenistic netherworld—Pluto’s kingdom of dead souls—finds its roots in the notion that a given plant species has its male and female reproductive organs in separate plants. This, of course, leads one directly to the conclusion that Christ’s humanity was merely an illusion…In a similar vein, invaders of the Indus valley in the third millennium B.C. [unclear here: the writer could be employing a less technical use of the word and refer rather to Nazi usage wherein ‘Aryan’ assumes racist overtones. This could would significantly alter one’s understanding of this statement, and scholarly opinion remains mixed] looked ahead to a later Hebraic personage and preemptively broke with the Chalcedonian and Constantinian formulations.”

Jim Elliot, an infamous American missionary to the Auca Indians in South America, recorded these words.

Infamous?

Ah! Infamous is when you’re more than famous! This missionary Jim Elliot is not just famous, he’s IN-famous! Turns out that old Ms. Elizabeth hasn’t been telling us the whole story, now has she? Ol’ Jimmy could evidently whoop it up pretty good there in the rainforest.

I see the body, soul, and spirit as a triadic structure and not didactic.

It baffles me that some people see theology as a cold, logic-bound enterprise. Such individuals clearly don’t see the musical implications in human constitution. Let us be very clear on this point! Human beings are not simple monotones or complicated, angst-ridden 7th’s! And heaven knows we are NOT, in our very makeup, morally instructive.

Is election corporal?

Yes. Yes it is, actually.

Next time: new vistas in theology through typos!

Adeodatus

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• Posted by Adeodatus on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 10:08:22 pm PST
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