01-16-2012, 11:28 PM
dowidh Wrote:People want the apostles to be like them and often they re-imagine them to be more like themselves than what they really are. Like some Westerns picture white Jesus without a beard, speaking English singing praise and worship music at Church...QFT ("Quoted for truth", if you're unfamiliar with that). If I can have a forum signature, this is a great candidate.
This phenomenon is real and largely subconscious.
If only people of all churches/denominations realized how very much this very dynamic affects not only their reading of Scripture, but also the readings and interpretations taken by their "church fathers" - and consequently, even their most ancient doctrines...
But His ways are not our ways.