Comments on: The Resurrection : Brought To You By… http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/ ...re-reinvented... Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: esh http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 esh Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:37:37 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1102

i was talking about the bible. i thought you were saying the “Hey! and the affiliate advertising on the right for a book too… haha that was too funny.” that you were refering the the bible as the book too. like gibson had rights to a _passion of the Christ_ bible.

no… was referring to the amazon link on the right that appeared around same time as this blog post coincidentally, I found it ironically humorous.

]]> By: Dan http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1100 Dan Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:49:43 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1100 Oops - correction on my blog URI. :-) Oops – correction on my blog URI. :-)

]]> By: Dan http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Dan Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:46:58 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1099 I don't think we even realize the extent to which this is taken in our culture. Even Cristian radio stations that claim to be "listener supported" (i.e., no advertising) advertise simply by virtue of the fact that they tell all their listeners who their "underwriters" are. Wouldn't it be nice if there were no expectation of an on-air acknowledgement on the part of the giver, and no sense of obligation to do so on the part of the station? Our culture's middle name is "Cheap". We cheapen everything. This insulates us from the sharp edges of reality and responsibility. I do it all the time, without even so much as a second thought. We have a deep-seated fear of anything significant. Nothing is private, nothing is off-limits. There is no intimacy nor is there profundity. Everything is information to be consumed, from Terri Shiavo's last days, through every excruciating detail of Michael Jackson's aberrant behavior, to how many people died in Iraq yesterday. To put everything on a level field like this is a reductionism that decouples information from any personal responsibility to act on it. The outcome is physical, spiritual, ad emotional numbness. It's a hefty price to pay, but hey, since we're numb then it won't bother us, so it's all OK. The googly-eyed fuzzball says Jesus loves me. I don’t think we even realize the extent to which this is taken in our culture. Even Cristian radio stations that claim to be “listener supported” (i.e., no advertising) advertise simply by virtue of the fact that they tell all their listeners who their “underwriters” are. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were no expectation of an on-air acknowledgement on the part of the giver, and no sense of obligation to do so on the part of the station?

Our culture’s middle name is “Cheap”. We cheapen everything. This insulates us from the sharp edges of reality and responsibility. I do it all the time, without even so much as a second thought. We have a deep-seated fear of anything significant. Nothing is private, nothing is off-limits. There is no intimacy nor is there profundity. Everything is information to be consumed, from Terri Shiavo’s last days, through every excruciating detail of Michael Jackson’s aberrant behavior, to how many people died in Iraq yesterday. To put everything on a level field like this is a reductionism that decouples information from any personal responsibility to act on it. The outcome is physical, spiritual, ad emotional numbness. It’s a hefty price to pay, but hey, since we’re numb then it won’t bother us, so it’s all OK. The googly-eyed fuzzball says Jesus loves me.

]]> By: josh byrd http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 josh byrd Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:34:06 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1098 i was talking about the bible. i thought you were saying the “Hey! and the affiliate advertising on the right for a book too‚Ķ haha that was too funny.” that you were refering the the bible as the book too. like gibson had rights to a _passion of the Christ_ bible.

david interpretation is right people would rather watch a movie about the bible than actually read it.

as a minister at a church of Christ we have a tradition of bible study and doing things “by the book” but i am amazed at how few people actually read it for themselves.

as for the captializing i tend not to do that except when i type God or LORD or Jesus or Christ or Holy Spirit. so the bible although it is important is not divinity.

]]> By: esh http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 esh Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:02:14 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1082 Spare me the history lesson.... now it is the bible... before it was hard to believe. Also if it is the bible he was referring to as "the book" would it not be proper to use "The Book"? Spare me the history lesson…. now it is the bible… before it was hard to believe. Also if it is the bible he was referring to as “the book” would it not be proper to use “The Book”?

]]> By: David http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1077 David Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:13:04 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1077 Hmmm, let us pontificate what Josh meant in his comment. If you go to the original Greek translation you will clearly see that he was referring to the Bible as, "the book" and that people would rather go see a movie than read God's life changing word. Hmmm, let us pontificate what Josh meant in his comment. If you go to the original Greek translation you will clearly see that he was referring to the Bible as, “the book” and that people would rather go see a movie than read God’s life changing word.

]]> By: esh http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1075 esh Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:40:36 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1075 ok now i get it, but I still don't get the "no one reads the book, no pictures" part? must have meant something else than the way it is written...? ok now i get it, but I still don’t get the “no one reads the book, no pictures” part?

must have meant something else than the way it is written…?

]]> By: Eric http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 Eric Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:22:41 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1074 I think he is referring to “Hard to Believe,” which in typical MacArthur style tells it like it is as far as the cost in following Christ.

]]> By: esh http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1072 esh Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:06:06 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1072 no no I don't get the context to what it was directed at. no no I don’t get the context to what it was directed at.

]]> By: josh byrd http://www.guiroo.com/blog/2005/03/28/the-resurrection-brought-to-you-by/comment-page-1/#comment-1068 josh byrd Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:12:30 +0000 http://www.guiroo.com/?p=61#comment-1068 it should say "plus" not "plust" it should say “plus” not “plust”

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