Dagens filosofiska fråga

Jag fastnade i veckan för följande citat av Vincent van Gogh:

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." - Vincent van Gogh

Vilket fick mig att undra om det kan finnas någon motsättning mellan visshet och förundran.

Vad tror ni?

Dagens citat

"So we must abandon certainty, and we must flee from anyone who promises us certitude lest we become lured into false comforts and a world of illusions."

Från bloggen On Journeying with those in Exile
(Tack Jonas för tipset)

Dagens citat att bita i

"Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society." Jacques Ellul

Veckans citat

In response then to those who shout, “let us return to the early church”, we must resolutely respond by crying out, “no, let us return to the event which gave rise to the early church”
Peter Rollins

Dagens citat

"God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves." 

D.L. Moody

Dagens citat

Dagens citat hämtar jag från bloggen "To the ends of the earth". En ny spännande bekantskap i den svenska kristna bloggvärlden:

"In the first century in Palestine Christianity was a community of believers. Then Christianity moved to Greece and became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome and became an institution. Then it moved to Europe and became a culture. And then it moved to America and became a business. We need to get back to being a healthy, vibrant community of true followers of Jesus."
Priscilla Shirer

Överförenklat, ja visst, men likväl tänkvärt.

Dagens citat

"The church is a group of people sent out to the world in the power of the Holy Spirit to act and look like Jesus thus bringing forth the will of the Father."

Behöver det vara mer krångligt än så?

Dagens citat

Ett långt samtal kring nattvarden på bloggen Z inspirerade mig att leta fram detta citat av Scot McKnight:

"I agree with the many who have commented that the Table is not designed for the pure, the righteous, or the perfect, but for the impure, for the unrighteous, and for the imperfect. I see no difference: if anyone is seeking God's grace and God's blessing through Jesus Christ, they should be welcomed to the Table of the Lord. The Table is for cracked Eikons, and only for cracked Eikons. The one thing clear from Jesus' table fellowship is that his opponents wanted purity before fellowship, and Jesus created purity out of fellowship with him."

Här kan den som vill lyssna på två riktigt bra undervisningspass med Scot:
The Story of the Eikons
The Story of the Gospel