More Comments On Theology

Are our theologies theorems, from pure logic?

This is a question we must stop and evaluate every new generation - or more truthfully everytime we study or base a decision on a belief system (theology) - and with every entry into a new culture or new phase of our own culture.

If I read history right, God used to be the center and reason for all of our studies. We used to use almost all the -ologies to study and discover more about God through examining his work in various arenas. Of course even this was not not a study of God directly but indirectly, a pursuing of Romans 1:18-20.

The study of doctrine and beliefs is commendable and necessary. Study implies an openness to evaluate, and reevaluate, and reevaluate, man made statements and non-inspired words against what God has continued to reveal of Himself through his ongoing dealings with men and the created world and the meaning of His Truth as recorded in scripture.

To teach theological systems as if they were canon, is not study. It is indoctrination and teaching the words of man as if they were sufficient and complete. Theology taught without openness about the weak points of each system and the human choices made (we blame it on faith - these human choices taken by faith) in order to reconcile otherwise unreconcilable tension between parts of God's revealed truth is to be less than forthright. This hedging borderson deceit and dishonesty. It limits critical study. It put forward humann logic as the excuse to play God with the tensions within scripture and within God's direct involvement (history) in the world.

Are our theologies theorems?

Sometimes this needs to be answered from the standpoint of pure logic and also by evaluation of the true longterm fruits our theologies grow - division not being the least plentiful fruit.