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多少有些遗憾的是，迄今为止，这些反对基本上来自两个非常下流的地方。第一个出于听不懂人话的无知；第二个是出于不可能不懂而故意攻击你的无耻——要多么混蛋的人才能真的相信，反对生命神学就是反对生命本身呢？要多么别有用心的人才能拿着这些自己也不可能相信的控告四处毁人不倦呢？愚蠢需要的不是辩论，而是救赎。生命神学的本质一言以蔽之，就是人本主义的肉身成道，不要基督钉十字架这个中心，以为人可以离开基督和十字架像神一样。它最多是一种信仰的同居或精神淫乱现象。这也正是耶稣警告的：“然而你们不肯到我这里来得生命”。我的观点很简单，首先我们需要瞩目基督的生命而不是我们自己的生命；其次，我们从基督而来的生命，是因信称义和成圣的新生命——耶稣自己说：我的话语就是灵，就是生命（约翰福音6:63）。一方面，基督的生命是我们信仰真正的中心，因此我们要远离“肉身成道”的异教试探；另一方面，我们只有把自己的新生命根植于基督的话语里面，才会开始天路历程。而所谓“这是虚构的现象”，“是虚构话语前提”，则是因为总有人风情万种地对号入座，对历史和现实不断膨胀的生命神学现象完全瞎眼，也不知道这类现象几乎成了历次GPC警惕的中心议题，更不知道自己建造在生命神学基础上的可怜生命，因此何等需要回到基督的十字架那里经历再生之苦。
下面编发的图片是现场拍摄的，图片所附的文字大部分是英语。一方面这是我现场对演讲者发言的记录或观点的摘要；另一方面是我自己当时所作的短评和发挥。因为会议语言主要是英语的，再加上时间关系，我就不再翻成中文了。如果有读者有兴趣又读英语有困难的，也请网友和同工互相帮助一下。另外，《神学》网刊正在编发“被失踪”的《上帝在佛山》博文，相信很快就能与读者见面。也许这本身也是一个世俗世界生命神学的范本：一边“爱”，一边败坏；一边
“生命”，一边苍蝇。靠自己，人无论如何活不出基督的爱来。但无论在任何地方，耶和华坐着为王。
任不寐，2011年10月25日
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会议所在地：EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH of DR. MARTN LUTHER |
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Not “do-it-yourself”. Word of God is the living power of the living God. |
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Evangelism is the verbal proclamation of sin and grace, law and gospel. The evangelist’s message will center on the finished work of Jesus Christ. |
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The evangelist’s message will center on the life and word of Jesus Christ, rather than he himself. |
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The evangelist’s tool is not the Word plus something else; it is the Word alone. |
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Evangelists are witnesses telling the truth about what they have seen and heard, they are not lawyers who have to convince a jury. |
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Evangelists do not go out armed with a complex, convoluted philosophical system that no one, not even they, really understands. The message of the Christian evangelist is very simple, very clear. |
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For one thing, this should keep the evangelist understand the spiritual mindset of the unbeliever. One should not expect proper spiritual responses from a person who dose not have the Spirit. The picture the Scripture paints prepares us to expect just the opposite. Secondly, It tells us that when we seek to evangelize the unbeliever we involve ourselves in a battle of cosmic proportions. |
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The evangelist brings an unconditional, no strings attached message. The sinner’s prior or subsequent lifestyle has nothing to do with his or her justification |
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There is not a single individual to whom the gospel does no apply, so we do not have to limit the good news of justification as the Calvinists |
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Calvinism: Christ died, not for all, but only for the elect, denies the universality of justification. The Arminian, with his “decision theology”, denies both the objective and sola gratia character of justification. Justification becomes something that must be completed by one’s decision to become a Christian. The Roman Catholic, with his teaching of “Infused grace”, likewise denies both the sola gratia and objective character of justification. Justification becomes a process of becoming righteous rather than God’s decisive declaration of righteousness through Christ. Justification by “Infused grace” becomes a cooperative affair, with people assisting in their justification by a life of love through the grace God implants in them. |
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Faith is not the cause of justification. The cause of justification is the perfect life and sacrificial death of Christ. Faith is simply the way by which the individual sinner apprehends the salvation won by Christ. |
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Faith is knowledge: “the true knowledge of Christ”. Faith is assent: the firm acceptance of God offer promising forgiveness of sins and justification. Faith is trust: trust in God’s promise and his mercy. |
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All are sinners, No people are by nature friendly to the idea of becoming Christian |
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a person in living theology could never be sure of his or her standing with God. One would constantly be wondering, “Am I sorry enough for my sins? Have I done enough fasting and praying; have I practiced sufficient self-denial to show that I an truly contrite?” |
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Roman Catholic sees the means of grace as doing no more than offering some help to the individual who is still largely responsible for working out his own salvation. Calvinism separates regeneration from the means of grace. It speaks of an immediate, i.e., without means, rather than a mediate operation of the Holy Spirit.. Arminianism assigns the responsibility of conversion, at least o a degree, to man, who cooperates with God (“synergism”) to become a Christian |
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On one hand, Our call is not to prove the gospel but to proclaim it. On the other hand, apologetics can properly serve helping role in evangelism |
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Nobody could tell when is the exactly change point from modern times to postmodernism era. The slogan of the postmodernism may be this: “I, the un-absolute one, believe that there are no absolutes”. |
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While modernist attacks on Christianity by arguing that Christianity is not true; the common critique of the postmodernists is that “Christians think they have the only truth”. The claims of Christianity are not denied; they are rejected because they purport to be true. |
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I assign the origin of postmodernism or living theology at Genesis3: “Did God really say”, “You will not surely die”, you “will be like God, knowing good and evil”, “When the woman saw that...she took...She also gave...”(Genesis3:1,4,6); “he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies”(Jhon8:44). |
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But the greatest or craftiest liar is different from its followers; Satan hides his lies under some truths. That is the same problems of the postmodernism and living theology. |
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In the postmodernism era, the intellect is replaced by the will; reason is replaced by emotion; morality is replaced by relativism; reality itself becomes a social construct. |
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Postmodernists base these new ideas on a particular view of language: literary criticism. Accordingly, there is no objective meaning or truth at all, and all truth claims are suspect and are treated as a cover-up for power plays. |
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In one hand, the world has drawn closed together, on the other hand, in other ways the world is splitting apart. |
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Society is not subject to the moral law; it makes the moral law. If there is no absolutes, the society can presumably construct any values that is please and is itself subject to none. All such issues are only matters of power. “we believe what we like.” |
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Postmodernism, in its rejection of objective truth, has clear affinities with Hinduism and Buddhism, which teach that the external world is only an illusion spun by the human mind. The Eastern religions and philosophies also provide the basis for more popular brands of spirituality and “political correctness”. |
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Both Confucianism and Maoism believe that truth and morality are relative and give over to the will. |
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So for me, or for Chinese scholars, or oriental Christians, Postmodernism is in fact a pro-modernism, rather than a postmodernism. |
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I have named New Age religions in Chinese “Living Theology” which means: the self is divine, you are or you can become God. As old as the serpent’s lie to Eve, this idea now finds its way into self-help books, motivational tracts, pop psychology, and some churches. |
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The next major new religion is a syncretic hybrid. As Eastern faiths, some churches pick and choose various aspects of the different faiths according to what they “like”. |
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The third aspect of “Living Theology” is “decision theology” which is both postmodernism and pro-modernism. |
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he fourth aspect of “Life Theology” is “therapeutic theology”. Both Chinese people and postmodernists have little interests in Heaven; they wants health and wealth now. |
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Today, most people believe that “there is no truth or God”.However, this postmodernism world is the same world before the Blood and of |
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True church growth will come not through social science research and marketing techniques, but through the action of God. The Church must hold fast to its Biblical identity. |
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The twentieth century opened a theological battle between the so-called modernists and the fundamentalism. Most seminaries are becoming more liberal and liberal. The postmodernist’s “new tools” are involved; the Bible is not treated as the authoritative Word of God, but as any other ancient document. Meanwhile, the political utopianism and the psychological naiveté of liberal theology seem curiously dated. Rationalism, having failed, is giving way to irrationalism which has opened a Pandora’s Box of New Age religions, syncretism, and moral chaos. The postmodernists draw on strains of the most ancient and primitive paganism. |
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New Age religions are in fact the old paganisms and morally acts. The next major new religion is a syncretic hybrid. As Eastern faiths, some churches pick and choose various aspects of the different faiths according to what they “like”. |
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Instead of preaching that leads to conviction of sin and salvation through the cross of Jesus Christ, churches preach “feeling-good” message designed to cheer people up. |
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Some have described postmodernist culture as a “therapeutic culture,” in which a sense of psychological well-being, not truth, is the controlling value. The contemporary church likewise faces the temptation to replace theology with therapy. Therefore some churches seek to promise miracles to solve every problem, political clout, exponential numerical growth, and success after success. |
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Even more serious than church consumerism, evangelical theology itself has in some circles capitulated to postmodernist ideology. This new theology has been described as a “megashift” away from classical theology. Megashift theology attempts to soften the hard edges of Biblical orthodoxy and to accommodate contemporary society’s values and mind-set. |
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What we believe? For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life |
各位平安。
另外，《神学》网刊正在编发“被失踪”的《上帝在佛山》博文，相信很快就能与读者见面。
启示录1：9 我约翰就是你们的弟兄，和你们在耶稣的患难，国度，忍耐里一同有分。为神的道，并为给耶稣作的见证，曾在那名叫拔摩的海岛上。
任不寐老师平安！愿各位弟兄姐妹每天进步！
仔细读了，这个概念很有启发：对西方人而言的后现代主义，在中国，的确就是前现代主义了。
怎么也贴不上了。这只凤凰被搞得全身过敏。
约翰福音3：3-6 耶稣回答说，我实实在在地告诉你，人若不重生，就不能见神的国。尼哥底母说，人已经老了，如何能重生呢？岂能再进母腹生出来吗？ 耶稣说，我实实在在地告诉你，人若不是从水和圣灵生的，就不能进神的国。从肉身生的，就是肉身。从灵生的，就是灵。
“生命神学的本质一言以蔽之，就是人本主义的肉身成道，不要基督钉十字架这个中心，以为人可以离开基督和十字架像神一样。”阿门！
当常识问题也成为争辩的中心，很多时候，不是因为无知，是因为“公报私仇”，故意陷害。
后现代主义，前现代主义，好像是一个循环。
任不寐
这夜是耶和华的夜
