(09-23-2020, 02:23 PM)fifteenth Wrote:(09-23-2020, 01:52 PM)Dahlsim Wrote: Cool but how about just posting a link for us to one you find particularly insightful?
Sure thing!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/opini...bible.html
I love his reference to Ps. 137 as a Psalms of the traumatized. He goes on to point out one of the evidence that scripture is divinely inspired because unlike human tendencies it goes on to speak of forgiveness, and redemption even of the unjust.
The scriptures always have the right wisdom on matters of value and virtue. That wisdom is timeless and proven.
Quote:For Christians, rage (Psalm 137) must eventually give way to hope (Isaiah 49). And we find the spiritual resources to make this transition at the cross.
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Christians contend for justice because we care about black lives, families and communities. We contend for reconciliation after the establishment of justice because there must be a future that is more than mutual contempt and suspicion. But justice and reconciliation cannot come at the cost of black lives. The only peaceful future is a just future. And because Christians should be a people for peace, we must be a people for justice even when it seems ever to elude us. Too many black lives have been lost to accept anything else.
People often forget who Martin Luther King really was when they label him as a "Civil Rights Leader". Martin Luther King was a Christian Preacher, a Biblical Theologian, before he became a Civil Rights Leader. In fact it sourced his dialog and direction as a Civil Rights Leader.
It's the reason a peaceful protest under MLK was actually peaceful and the only violence came from the unrighteous authorities. That led to the public forcing the change of not only unjust laws but changing unrighteous hearts and minds.
The issue now can be boiled down to a secularized American society that has rejected the wisdom of God as found in the scriptures.
If the traumatized over black lives were basing their solutions on the inspiration of the Prophets and Apostles and scripture, none of the escalations to violence would be occurring that we see now across the country.