AB Higashi, again, how to do theology with the bible

[TheLightWithin]

A.B. Higashi

Videos on how to read the Bible better from diverse perspectives. Academic biblical scholarship in the palm of your hand.

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AB Higashi
How to do Theology with the Bible
from 2 months ago
I like his idea about identifying and using Venn diagrams
What does anybody else think?

 

[Thomas]

I am bowing out of popular YouTube theologian discussions because they just leave me cold.

I appreciate their problem for the YouTuber, they must first appeal to the audience they want to talk to.

I am just not that audience ... sorry ... I look and think, "What the hell are you banging on about ... and why?"

 

[TheLightWithin]

I am bowing out of popular YouTube theologian discussions because they just leave me cold.

I appreciate their problem for the YouTuber, they must first appeal to the audience they want to talk to.

I am just not that audience ... sorry ... I look and think, "What the hell are you banging on about ... and why?"

Well darn.

 

[wil]

This agnostic would have issues filling these sections...but I think the process fun.

 

[wil]

I still can't in any way buy the creator G!d. That old white man in the sky is stuck in my brain and pokes out everytime I hear the word.

Butch is the closest I can get and even his use of the word makes the hairs stand up and stomach rumble.

 

[Thomas]

I still can't in any way buy the creator G!d.

Well that does rather puts you at odds with the whole Abrahamic thing ...

 

[wil]

Well that does rather puts you at odds with the whole Abrahamic thing ...

Litterally....yes. lol, but can I, have I, have others benefitted from alternate interpretations of the allegory and parables and metaphysics contained within the abramshamic texts?

Also, literally YES!

 

[wil]

Well that does rather puts you at odds with the whole Abrahamic thing ...

As I see it the Jews and their prophets came down from the mountain and across the desert and wrote down what they devined.

Jesus and his band of merry followers said "Yeah, but..."

And then the.mountain came to Mohamed.

And the Bahaualla, Bab, Halle Sallasi, Joseph Smith, the Transcendental Movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoraeu, Quinby, Edgar Cayce, Emily Cady, Ernest Holmes, Fillmore....

The stories interpretations and revelations still evolve... I am but riding the boat down the river of evolving thought and not docked or anchored to any belief along the way.

The bible is my goto book, I like the abramic thingy, but also the Buddhist thingy, and Taoist thingy and Hindu thingy.

Like the blues and Jazz.and Rock and Country I enjoy some of all of it and all of none of it. We are all discerning.

Matthew 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. .... Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand!

 

[talib-al-kalim]

I still can't in any way buy the creator G!d. That old white man in the sky is stuck in my brain and pokes out everytime I hear the word.

Butch is the closest I can get and even his use of the word makes the hairs stand up and stomach rumble.

There's no white man in the sky and rabbits don't lay eggs. You are a grownup since long time, aren't you?

 

[wil]

There's no white man in the sky and rabbits don't lay eggs. You are a grownup since long time, aren't you?

I still feel the edge of the ruler on my knuckles.

 

[TheLightWithin]

"What the hell are you banging on about ... and why?"

You could day that to anybody preaching or evangelizing or sharing any beliefs or thoughts at all.

 

[Thomas]

I still feel the edge of the ruler on my knuckles.

Oooh ... there's a whole raft of psychological issues at play there.

 

[wil]

Oooh ... there's a whole raft of psychological issues at play there.

Yup, when the ones preaching love and compassion have that as a response to a question...makes ya question!