Rationalizing the irrational
I wish to extrapolate on my choice of getting into Reformed theology. Perhaps if i write it out it'll make more sense to me, and hence through absurd virtue be void of sense to others.
a contra to the world attitude - as a being who is detached from the world, hearing from others who are also detached is therapeutic.
A history with the discipline - when i was a teen, living in a believing household, there were these books by Spurgeon lying about, what a guy, he was so much more meaty than our preacher, it was to me a chasm between current authority figures and an idealism from those luminaries of the past, Spurgeon championed Calvinism btw, so the bread crumbs were easy to follow.
The wrong usage - i'm an inveterate rebel, i can't help using the things i use in the ways they were not meant to be.
By virtue of the absurd - i therefore embrace something that by it's very nature is contra to me as i am in my own nature. Perversity, madness, insanity made flesh.
There are what's known as the 5 points which are simply the Reformed reacting to those who shoved their views at them, so they are like, no way Jose, this is what we believe which is against what you believe.
These points are to this day controversial, there's a sizeable amount of Christendom who think that the Reformed way is a Deformed way.
The Reformed says that God does it all, and yet if one isn't chosen one is also culpable.
It's a stumbling stone to the rational mind and the believing also.
Well rational, let me think here a moment, can a rational mind see things as fatalistic? I think so, maybe that is what attracts me to it, the fate, and the controversy, the idear that we can't do a thing about it, and are also going to be graded for what we do, which we couldn't help not doing, our ways are authored by a vengeful God.
Remaining open, and veering on the side of skepticism for the sake of sanity - seeing the whole parade, the theatre of the world as a tragi-comedy of epic proportions.
One often sees those who base their unbelief due to bad things happening to good people, the Reformed view is a tonic to me then, an absurd hilarious on the mountain top kind of peak point of visual splendor, that sees - no, no one is good, everyone is bad bad bad, and it's nothing you can do about it, but it's still extremely bad, and even though you had and have no choice, it's all your fault.
Bizarre love i have for this system of theology which i perverted out of glee here. However as i'm reading the great classic works of these guys, these Reformers and Puritans, i'm like comforted by them, a feeling of clean comes to the degree that i refrain from bursting out in laughter, when i respect them, and see the sense in senselessness.
a contra to the world attitude - as a being who is detached from the world, hearing from others who are also detached is therapeutic.
A history with the discipline - when i was a teen, living in a believing household, there were these books by Spurgeon lying about, what a guy, he was so much more meaty than our preacher, it was to me a chasm between current authority figures and an idealism from those luminaries of the past, Spurgeon championed Calvinism btw, so the bread crumbs were easy to follow.
The wrong usage - i'm an inveterate rebel, i can't help using the things i use in the ways they were not meant to be.
By virtue of the absurd - i therefore embrace something that by it's very nature is contra to me as i am in my own nature. Perversity, madness, insanity made flesh.
There are what's known as the 5 points which are simply the Reformed reacting to those who shoved their views at them, so they are like, no way Jose, this is what we believe which is against what you believe.
These points are to this day controversial, there's a sizeable amount of Christendom who think that the Reformed way is a Deformed way.
The Reformed says that God does it all, and yet if one isn't chosen one is also culpable.
It's a stumbling stone to the rational mind and the believing also.
Well rational, let me think here a moment, can a rational mind see things as fatalistic? I think so, maybe that is what attracts me to it, the fate, and the controversy, the idear that we can't do a thing about it, and are also going to be graded for what we do, which we couldn't help not doing, our ways are authored by a vengeful God.
Remaining open, and veering on the side of skepticism for the sake of sanity - seeing the whole parade, the theatre of the world as a tragi-comedy of epic proportions.
One often sees those who base their unbelief due to bad things happening to good people, the Reformed view is a tonic to me then, an absurd hilarious on the mountain top kind of peak point of visual splendor, that sees - no, no one is good, everyone is bad bad bad, and it's nothing you can do about it, but it's still extremely bad, and even though you had and have no choice, it's all your fault.
Bizarre love i have for this system of theology which i perverted out of glee here. However as i'm reading the great classic works of these guys, these Reformers and Puritans, i'm like comforted by them, a feeling of clean comes to the degree that i refrain from bursting out in laughter, when i respect them, and see the sense in senselessness.
