That's what language is for: to apply labels to what we do understand. The process of definition, which leads to conceptualization.
I have no reason to credit someone who insults my intelligence. How many decades of observation? I bet I can beat you at that one. Ever heard of pareidolia? That is the mental phenomenon of recognizing patterns in the environment that are only coincidental. Seeing faces in clouds...or Baphomet in angels. Just like my linoleum faces---just because I can recognize them doesn't mean they are really there.
Luke 17:21 is the doorway to a grave misunderstanding, if you take the wrong translation. Your approach is the essence of Pentecostalism, the idea that it is up to us to find the Kingdom of God inside us. Which is just Works Righteousness under a different name. The camel metaphor is exactly that: a metaphor. Most people recognize what is being said.
And yet Poe was on target, regarding you. You spout lofty assertions without the slightest scant of explication. All this wonderful knowledge you have, but somehow my dense brain offends you so much, you cannot explain yourself. In my experience, that means either of two things: (1) you are a fraud and have nothing to explain, or (2) you are inarticulate and don't know how to explain.
That's what language is for: to apply labels to what we do understand. The process of definition, which leads to conceptualization.
I have no reason to credit someone who insults my intelligence. How many decades of observation? I bet I can beat you at that one. Ever heard of pareidolia? That is the mental phenomenon of recognizing patterns in the environment that are only coincidental. Seeing faces in clouds...or Baphomet in angels. Just like my linoleum faces---just because I can recognize them doesn't mean they are really there.
Luke 17:21 is the doorway to a grave misunderstanding, if you take the wrong translation. Your approach is the essence of Pentecostalism, the idea that it is up to us to find the Kingdom of God inside us. Which is just Works Righteousness under a different name. The camel metaphor is exactly that: a metaphor. Most people recognize what is being said.
And yet Poe was on target, regarding you. You spout lofty assertions without the slightest scant of explication. All this wonderful knowledge you have, but somehow my dense brain offends you so much, you cannot explain yourself. In my experience, that means either of two things: (1) you are a fraud and have nothing to explain, or (2) you are inarticulate and don't know how to explain.
u/#tired