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My article made the front page. The article is on the previous post, but you can see the official newspaper version here.
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Here’s what I don’t understand:
You claim to be a man of integrity – I will not say you are not.
You also make a nominal claim to be a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ.
Why are you willing to associate with a man who denies the diety of Jesus Christs and promotes a philosophy hostile to Jesus Christ?
Why are you able to congregate with men who have shown themselves to be men lacking in integrity (Sharpton, Jackson, Willie Wilson, and Grainger Browning)?
As I said in a previous comment, if you are claiming to be a Christian, then your standard should be Bible centered, not socially centered.
As I listen to Farrakhan it is incredibly easy to see that the only thing he is promoting is an increase in the influence of NOI and Farrakhan, not Blacks, humans, or Jesus Christ.
I again urge you to be conformed to the image of Christ, not Farrakhan or the latest in social science. Social Justice doesn’t exist without a changed heart. It is simply a Utopia, denying the worth and dignity of the human spirit, as all Utopias must.
Melvin
Congrats on making the front page man!
Mr. Melvin
Well… truly passionate as most dogmatic zealots seem to present themselves. However, simply unfortuante that this passion is not committed to the compassion the Christocentric faith avails. Without responding with prolixitous scholarly critique, just the simple notion of segregating oneself from the opportunity to learn and communicate seems…well contradictory to the spirit of Christian principles. How often does Christ sit with men and women not of the same ideological persuasion? How patient seems the Savior, while entertaining the seemingly misguided notions (at least from the perspective of the fundmentalist, right wing, dogmatist’s perspective) of salvation and liberation for community.
I don’t know, perhaps what is so peculiar to me, that is if we employ the limited and linear thinking Mr. Melvin so clumsely uses to prop the embalanced argument he seeks to erect, we disreguard the presentations of this same Christ. Presentations such as the NRSV’s John 10:16 “I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.”
Well, since we are contextualist…please take as much time as you need to exegete this passage. I’m sure you will find it helpful. It seems here God’s will of salvation (or as Dr. Ross, my old O.T. professor would say, “Freedom”)is placed here as a priori. It is the will of God which glares at us through this scripture as the key.
If God’s will is freedom and salvation…is there some monopoly or coersive demonstration by Christ to limit the perspective from which we are able to view God’s vision (or God’s will)for our lives as humans? I certainly hope not. If it were so…a mighty poor savior we have indeed!
Not preaching…just thinking!
Martin-
What’s up Malcolm