Right, wrong, old and new

And, by the way, the ways of old aren’t wrong, just outdated. Like a Smith-Corona, or a Remington, or even an Underwood typewriter. It has a keyboard, it was useful for its time, and useful to build on. But it is different from the computer I am using today. It served an important function as a bridge of sorts, it isn’t wrong, we have just as a matter of reality, outgrown it. Theology like most other disciplines ought to be continuiously altered by new information. Old information may be replaced or may remain intact. Perhaps the keyboard stays as a foundation but what surrounds a the face of the keyboard seems to be in flux. Some foundations need not be dismantled if they have stood the test of time and hold the line still. Others like a house of sand should wash away. Old ideas die hard.

Comments

[Ted M. Gossard]

I agree, Daryl. Those things had there place and time. But now we have a kind of fulfillment of them, or the end result, or heading towards the end result or goal.