tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post1981648537115942866..comments2023-06-28T11:56:24.073-04:00Comments on The Lamb's War: Who Are We Called To Serve?Micah Baleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849915973708989620noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-57016294418851050482012-10-23T19:57:15.129-04:002012-10-23T19:57:15.129-04:00I believe that it is a rule of organizations that ...I believe that it is a rule of organizations that the original spirit and action arising from it morphs into structure and gestures. Maggie H. nicely reflects this in her articulate and thought provoking essay, you're/we're not Quakers. <br /><br />The challenge: nourish and express a new spirit and actions that arises from it. Perhaps that new spirit is in connecting (again) with Jesus Christ. But what Jesus? The Jesus of stories that, Biblical scholarship identifies as reflecting theological ends in the context of history. Remember, there was no recording in transcripts or in video or audio of what Jesus definitely said. And there are events, like the trial of Jesus, to which no one was present who might provide a faithful account concerning Jesus. <br /><br />Remember also that this was in a pre-scientific time. So we must look to astronomical science for an understanding of the origin, age. size and organization of the universe; to physics for the laws that govern light, energy and matter in the universe, and to biology for the origin and evolution of life on earth. In this world, where is and what is God? <br />And how do we know that what we say is God is real and not our human, fallible conception of the deity? <br />And how does Jesus relate to God within the context of the findings of science about the universe and life on our earth? In these answers may lie a well grounded spirit and basis for action for the first part of the 21st century that can gain rightful acceptance.James Breilinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01127399925944849943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37106751.post-68427612897872938612012-10-23T18:59:36.576-04:002012-10-23T18:59:36.576-04:00AmenAmenBarbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06373994759952500579noreply@blogger.com