Thursday, September 18, 2008

Icing Jesus

The exegetical expectancy of the majority of academia only proves the mantra that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The scholars of the world prove themselves foolish by claiming to draw the meaning out of the text when in fact they end up freezing the Lord Jesus in a context completely foreign to the contemporary pathos of post-Enlightenment redundancy. Hence it is proper to designate their exercise of interpretation as "icing Jesus" while they mock the process of speculative theology as "eisegesis."

But the words of Christ were clearly intended to be construed in a 180° roundabout manner of manifesting wisdom indicating the utter immaturity and ignorance of those exegetes who seek to take the initial understanding of what the original audience would have surely understood by these sayings and aphorisms. The subversive nature of Yeshua's ministry could not possibly be expressed in a straightforward reading of the text of the New Testament and such should be obvious to anyone created as the imago Dei and commissioned to a processional mission of missional procession.

The same can be said for the illustrious Rabbi Shaul and the ever-wise M. Westermoreland-White illuminates our underdeveloped understanding by bringing to light a series by pseudo-theologian Thom Stark which M. W-W. describes as a: "fantastic series on Romans 13 as a call to nonviolent political activism, not blind obedience to the state or other Powers." We'd be foolish not to heed the words of such speculative ψευδοθεολογια. To ignore such wisdom would be sophistry of the worst kind.

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