On Inspiration and Changing Your Paradigm

I very much appreciated the insight of gabe on one of the comments to Spectrum’s article quoting Dorothee and Brad Cole on Doug Batchelor’s stance on ordaining women:
http://spectrummagazine.org/blog/2010/04/01/dorothee_and_brad_cole_batchelors_sermon_its_really_about_inspiration

why oh why oh why oh why….??????

i just don’t get the fuss. some things are very plain and clear – but a worship of a cultural book, a determined bibliolatry, an adherence to the bible as a book of mandated rules creates distortions and conflicts, disturbed communities and distressed individuals. This whole debate is incredibly ludicrous and if you get outside circles of fundamentalist people it is a massive anti-intellectual turnoff.

Before humans realised the earth wasn’t the centre of the universe, the planets were tracked, mapped and considered to be “wandering stars”. they had mathematically mapped out courses through the sky. once it was realised that the earth wasn’t the centre, the paths of the planets suddenly became much simpler to understand. i see the way so many issues being discussed in the adventist context are much like this. people try to hold onto the old ways and created contorted “formulas” and twisted logic to justify the reasoning. so change the paradigm. realise we are using old thinking that doesn’t match with reality. look for the higher universal values and you’ll find you don’t need to contort your mind to make the old understandings fit.

to live literally by the bible is abusive in many ways (of course not all.) it’s time to wake up to that and let the old prejudices go.

think big. live big. discover a god who is bigger than all the human pettiness – even the bible’s.
Posted by: gabe (not verified) | 02 April 2010 at 7:50