Well, what did you think?
Feel free to share some of your thoughts, questions, and disagreements from Bell's presentation here.
Also, here are some pictures from our outing.
A big thanks to Mariela for organizing the dinner to Carmine's and for purchasing tickets for us!
This is us (still smiling) after an hour and forty minutes of Rob Bell waxing eloquently on near eastern deities, castration, human sacrifice, and "the reconciliation of all creation at the culmination of history."
Is someone a bit excited about the tiramisu (or is it the just the prospects of finally seeing her hero in just a few moments)?
Jonathan and Andrea about to do some major damage to "the mini-Titanic."
James, what does your shirt say?
As you can tell, Lisa really enjoyed her dairy free meal! =)
4 comments:
Hmmm-- Off the bat I must say I like him better on the book Velvet Elvis. Maybe what I'm trying to say is that I like him better as an author than a public speaker. However, this was a very interesting topic and I feel that he brought home a handful of important facts about ancient civilizations, customs and culture that helped giving context to the biblical truths at stake. The topic of his tour, Angry Gods, is very insightful and has so much meat that I felt he just scratched the surface because much time was spent giving a background of the past civilazation and little time was spent talking about the symbolisms of the sacrifices (for us christians). Maybe he's point was to state many facts and have us discuss and reach our own conclusions (like Zane suggested). And if that's the case... here we go. Let the discussion begin!
I just couldn't believe we sat there for an hour and forty minutes!
I thought Bell had lots of thought-provoking insights. Two that stand out to me in particular are:
1. The OT laws were given as an antidote to arbitrariness. The Israelites knew exactly what was expected of them and did not have to fear random punishment.
2. The sacrificial system is more for the cleansing of our own, human conscience than appeasing God's sense of justice, i.e. wrath.
I still don't know what I think about the #2, but I certainly have been thinking about it this week!
What did you think?
Hi people , I couldn't make it there the other day but from what I see on the comments from Zane the Bell's insight that disturbed me the most is the second one ...
I believe Bell's approach only includes the psychological aspect when this system was given to be applied in a spiritual context only .
We believe that is not right to take someone else's life for any reason ... as a way to cleanse our sins before God or gods like many other civilizations did ( with young people ) .
Jesus died only because of our sins .
When we realize that we depend totally from God then we realize that the sins are not only taking us apart from him but also going against ourselves .
Best ,
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