tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post6963005180256934753..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Seeing is not believing -- hearing is!Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-86997576646538760932017-04-26T21:58:26.806-05:002017-04-26T21:58:26.806-05:00First off, you must understand (and you probably d...First off, you must understand (and you probably don't) that the society of this time was still an oral society. About 10% of the population could read, but the percentage drops drastically counting those who could BOTH read AND write to something around 2-3%. "Let him who has ears, let him hear" is not saying one receives the faith or belief ALONE (and I know Lutherans love to insert the word "alone" into every bible verse). We receive the faith in all of our senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. One of those is not elevated above the others. Such is why a holistic faith actually stimulates all the senses for the acquisition of the faith. To take this to your logical conclusion, if one only reads the Scriptures but does not say aloud what he is reading (which was the standard practice back in the ancient world since one had to because there were no breaks in individual words. You had to read to find the breaks and the pauses and the cadences), then he will not receive faith. God help the deaf man! Lutherans need to get away from this horrible and misplaced idea that faith is only some sort of mental process. Faith is something that is injected and received into our hearts through all the senses which God gave to us which he expects us to use.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07737698278079495810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-23981173600095184772017-04-25T09:47:45.741-05:002017-04-25T09:47:45.741-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.John Joseph Flanaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06596324816480709495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-63330096365420779952017-04-25T07:12:48.873-05:002017-04-25T07:12:48.873-05:00For Pr. Ulrich: Wow. Shot me down. I don't...For Pr. Ulrich: Wow. Shot me down. I don't listen like I should! I'm not a charismatic who wants to see signs and wonders, and thinks that's the way to win people to Christ. I am one who doesn't meditate and digest what she hears. I'm one who relies all too much on excusing reticence to speak of Christ with, "my actions are enough." Lots of Missouri Synod folk (including myself) need to stop being from Missouri (Show me). Thank you for Law, and the finger pointing to the blessed, WRITTEN Gospel!Janis Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947508427040251166noreply@blogger.com