A short excerpt of a really thought provoking post from Halden at : The Metaphysics of Discipleship « Inhabitatio Dei:
"In Jesus’ view, the call to discipleship that he was preaching was not something hard and burdensome, but rather a call to leave such burdens behind. Jesus seems to think that discipleship is easy, and that by contrast it is restless striving of the Gentiles and the burdensome commands of the priestly elite that is hard (cf. Matt. 6:32; Luke 11:46; 12:30)."
Read the whole article. My thought is Jesus must have had some idea about the kind of people we and his contemporaries are. Always looking at things through dark glasses. Then why did he say what he said if he knew it was bound to be misinterpreted at least by a majority -- or was the early church an exception to this.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
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To answer your question I'd think back to how the message reached you, ie, through the church and christian teaching itself. If the medium causes you to receive the core message along with all the other "noise" from its container, ie, the Bible, there's a good chance that not many would get the interpretation correct.
Thank you Ranger for the comment and for being the first commenter on the blog.
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