Posted On: August 26th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Walter Snyder
Did you post this after also reading the follow-up article, Madre?
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Re: An Open Word for Aardvark
Posted On: August 26th, 2005 at 11:22 pm by Madre
If you mean the one posted on 8/25/05, yes, I specifically posted this after reading the mind-boggling article that continued to defend this strange idea of "sanctified pride".
Then I taught my 3-year-old the word "concupiscence". (It means, "want to be naughty")
Re: An Open Word for Aardvark
Posted On: August 27th, 2005 at 12:26 am by Walter Snyder
Who, here, is wanting "to be naughty"? The idea is no stranger than Luther's full "sin boldly" quote in the first Aardvark Alley post. My doppelgänger — my alter ego (I'm altar, he's ego) — merely dares Bloghardt to honestly examine his hair shirt, since he's getting an awful lot of itches scratched by others. He can question his own motives all he wants; as it is, he not only seems to be proclaiming the Law but practically trying to impose it. As for Aardvark Alley, I'll opine, "Hyperbolic extremism in defense of Gospel liberty is no vice. (with a tip of the hat to Barry Goldwater)"
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Re: An Open Word for Aardvark
Posted On: August 27th, 2005 at 1:10 am by Madre
When has Bloghardt ever told anyone not to submit posts? When has he said that the Carnival itself was a bad idea?
He just posted saying he wouldn't be participating in it when everyone else was jumping on the blogwagon about how wonderful this was. You'd think he just blasphemed the Lord Himself by the reactions to it.
Come on...sanctified pride? There's a huge difference between not hiding this little Gospel light of mine under a bushel (NO!) and getting out the neon flashing sign and saying "Check out MY little Gospel light!" Sure, David wrote a bunch of Psalms. I don't recall him ever saying "These little ditties are good enough to be Scripture. I'm SO divinely inspired to write them!"
If you want to join the Carnival and say you're doing so, go for it. Knock yourself out. And if someone doesn't want to and says so too, so what?
Bloghardt posted that he WAS interested in participating in the Carnival, until he found out that participants were required to submit our own posts as well as write the promotional summaries for them. Why not instead just call it what it is and have a giant BlogDirectory with a kajillion 1-item RSS feeds from whoever wants to join up?
Re: An Open Word for Aardvark
Posted On: August 27th, 2005 at 11:19 pm by Bob Waters
Please define "pride." I really don't think that anyone involved in this conversation truly thinks that when a mother says to her daughter who has just won a spelling bee, or a father to a son who has just hit a game-winning home run, "I am proud of you," that he or she is confessing to a sin.
If by that word one means "seeking to take credit for what God has done in giving one the talent to think insightfully and turn a phrase, perhaps while assuming that having these abilities, or perhaps having them in greater measure than others, makes one better than they are," then "pride" is nothing but idolatry.
If, on the other hand, by "pride" one means "being pleased with the result of one's use of the gifts which God has given one, and happy to be able to be of service," that is another matter. Being gratified when that happens to someone else to whom one is close is, I think, even further removed from the sin of pride.
The word has two entirely different meanings in the English dictionary, and that's worth bearing in mind- as are C.S. Lewis's comments in this regard that humility does not obligate a clever man to think of himself as beingstupid, and that there is quite a difference between taking credit for what God has done in granting one certain gifts, and thinking, having utilitzed those gifts, that "I have pleased Him. All is well."
(It means, "want to be naughty")