01-21-2023, 08:26 PM
Thanks, Mark. These are some very helpful observations.
You’re right in that it’s been a challenge to bring together disparate theologies and world views
I started getting into the New Testament a little bit last year, trying to understand the psychology of Paul, and the worldview of the early Christians. I’ll always be a dilettante in these matters, because my day job is in a completely different area, and my interests are wide rather than deep.
I have also been interested in the mohammedan worldview, and of all the Abrahamic religions I find Islam to be the most coherent, theologically. But that’s just the Abrahamic tradition, while Buddhist / Hindu beliefs are quite different. They all say different things, but provide some meaning to their adherents, and they’re all wrong. Somewhere in this there’s a poem, but this is not it. It’s too disjointed.
I like the idea of a dialogue. Maybe that can work.
Yes, I’ll let this one simmer for a bit.
Thanks again for the thoughts.
You’re right in that it’s been a challenge to bring together disparate theologies and world views
I started getting into the New Testament a little bit last year, trying to understand the psychology of Paul, and the worldview of the early Christians. I’ll always be a dilettante in these matters, because my day job is in a completely different area, and my interests are wide rather than deep.
I have also been interested in the mohammedan worldview, and of all the Abrahamic religions I find Islam to be the most coherent, theologically. But that’s just the Abrahamic tradition, while Buddhist / Hindu beliefs are quite different. They all say different things, but provide some meaning to their adherents, and they’re all wrong. Somewhere in this there’s a poem, but this is not it. It’s too disjointed.
I like the idea of a dialogue. Maybe that can work.
Yes, I’ll let this one simmer for a bit.
Thanks again for the thoughts.