post-modernism

So I've been reading Bill Finley's posts and he is struggling with the whole post-modern issue. Which brings me back to my own struggles with it.

But interestingly enough, my struggles led me BACK to pre-pre-modernism and I have realized that the problem is not that we are stuck in the thinking of the last 400 years (modern thinking) but that we are born and raised and ingrained in the Greek philosophy of life.

We do not see things as God does. We don't view the Bible in the manner it was written. We have to answer an answer for everything - an objective truth response for each item.

If we do believe in objective truth, then why do we NOT obey the Old Testament? If God never changes, how can we teach dispensational theology? Trying to find where the Army stands here is very difficult because everyone has a different viewpoint (but wait, I thought it was all absolute . . .)

Oooohhhhh, so you mean, nobody really holds the corner on absolute truth - then how can it be absolute truth?

Now, before anybody gets really upset and writes long comments, let me say that I believe in an absolute truth. I just do not believe that it is the truth that the Christian church is teaching. I believe you have to go back to the Hebraic roots of the founding fathers (and I DON"T mean George Washington) and see what their understanding of truth was. Because they were talked to by God himself, through the Torah.

In fact, according to John 1, Christ himself was the Torah (the Word). It's Logos in Greek, it's Torah in Hebrew. The Ten Words - the Ten Commandments. Law is a Greek idea, Teachings is the thought in Hebrew.

So if we want to discover or explore absolute truth - who is Christ - any problem with that statement? - then let us see him as he was in the Torah - not as a Gentile church depicts him- blonde, blue-eyed . . . .

What is the purpose to this? Not much, except to say that the answers to Bills question will not be found in all of us moderns beginning to look at things in a new and different way but - i believe that by actually returning to the ancient paths, we may actually receive some enlightenment. If we continue to view life from a Greek standpoint, then we will continue to be puzzled and confused by the questions which are thrown at us by post-moderns (of which we all are - because of the time that we live in.)

hmmm.