devendra inglendra said, on July 20, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Only rhetoric can break them of it, not didactic: “Body of Christ and Bride of Christ—-so he’s marrying his own body? That’s called being an incel.”
Now they have to call you a sceptic, pagan, heretic, pelagian, nestorian, apallonarian, whatever boogeyman name they want. But they’re on the defensive and their mind is processing in the background that these things are only limited metaphors not “doctrine.”
I dropped the idea that the NT never calls the church the Bride of Christ into the conversation at home recently. It went quite for a minute or two while they tried to think of a verse that did, and with suprised looks on their faces agreed it didn’t. Also wondered why this had never occurrred to them before! Traditions can be very powerful, can’t they.
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Only rhetoric can break them of it, not didactic: “Body of Christ and Bride of Christ—-so he’s marrying his own body? That’s called being an incel.”
Now they have to call you a sceptic, pagan, heretic, pelagian, nestorian, apallonarian, whatever boogeyman name they want. But they’re on the defensive and their mind is processing in the background that these things are only limited metaphors not “doctrine.”
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I dropped the idea that the NT never calls the church the Bride of Christ into the conversation at home recently. It went quite for a minute or two while they tried to think of a verse that did, and with suprised looks on their faces agreed it didn’t. Also wondered why this had never occurrred to them before! Traditions can be very powerful, can’t they.
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