More Changes & A Few Thoughts!

It doesn't seem like I am comfortable with a template for any lengthy period of time and so I did some changes!  

As of late I've been working on a different writing project which seems to be taking up all my free time and so I've decided to lay aside my blog.  Not only that but my current health hasn't allowed for me to be as adventurous and committed to this blog as I initially set out to be.  But still keeping in mind what I set out to accomplish perhaps, with a slight bit of moderation I will set out to make another go of it.  I have a few things on the go right now and some things I'd like to see completed by next year and so, instead of making a New Years Resolution come January what I have decided is to simply continue on track with where I'm currently headed but as I do I have a few thoughts.  

Just a few questions...  

Why do people who preach the loudest for tolerance are themselves the most intolerant?  Why do people who express the desire to want to dialogue and yet control the how, when, where, and even the context? Why do those who seek to want to "bridge" have no desire to bridge unless it is accompanied with a compromise in theological and doctrinal beliefs that have been held for centuries?  

Here's the thing... 

I will never redefine certain words to suit my agenda.  I will not bend into manipulative games or entertain dialogue when that dialogue when the individual on the other end refuses to actually hear where some of the misguided beliefs twist and distort what it is I actually believe... so basically, if you want to dialogue with me then perhaps it would be best to actually first hear what it is that I actually believe, other then that, no matter how well informed the other person is or think they are about my beliefs.  Really, that kind of conversation doesn't really help and it doesn't really go anywhere.  Here's another question, does dialogue even serve a purpose if they're trying to control the dialogue? Is it then even helpful discussion or is it really just another format of tolerance, bend a few points here and there, change a few words around or redefine a few words here and there and then finally, while you're at it, use dialogue to promote your own agenda while giving no biblical foundation to what it is that is actually being discussed.  To me that really doesn't make any sense and I don't find it helpful, in fact, I find it draining to my emotions... especially when people use big words and big phrases and really condensed down sentences all the while complaining about the chosen words of somebody else.  That's just stupid, it really is, if you want the common people to understand then you have to use common words unless you're trying to communicate only to those with a seminary degree or those with a high vocabulary... that to me kinda hinders dialogue with a lot of people and can only be misleading at best.  I don't know about you but I have a tendency not to trust people who feel the need to use big words and phrases.... ok now I'm just complaining but really making a point, is that it's not helpful, it's misleading, and misguiding and leads a whole heck of a lot of confused individuals to keep believing what it is they're believing and then in the long run, when people dialogue in this kinda of nature the only thing that is happening is that you're comforting people in the mess they're in and helping them to stay there.  Then again, perhaps the huge pull towards tolerance and "bridge" work, which is really just one in the same... perhaps it's just one tool that a great many can use to promote their own liberal theology agenda. 

We should take the following scripture to heart because I think we're living in this exact season that the church has been warned against... 

All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.  In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and his Kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction, for the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.  They will turn away from the truth and turn aside to myths. ~ 2 Timothy 3:16-4:4