Subject: your site
Sat
12/29/2007
Ma'am,
I only yesterday discovered
your site when a friend of mine sent me your piece refuting
obsessive legalism concerning the real pronouncing of the name
of Jesus. Your piece confirmed what I have known for many
years, that when names translate they alter to fit what can be
pronounced, thus my own given name Stephen is in Spanish,
Estevan, in Maori, Tipene, in Russian Stepan. Thus Jesus is
simply the biblical name Yeshua as pronounced by a non Hebrew
speaker, as you pointed out. More disturbing is the Hebrew
Roots agenda behind this phenomenon. Mr. Rood, who I had never
heard of until I found him referred to in your site, appears
to flatly deny the divinity of God the Son, and this seems to
be the enticement of an over interest in Hebrew Roots
I read with approval your
rejection of that pornographic blood fest the Passion of the
The Christ. As one of the press reviewers you cite says he
wished he had never seen the film I stand encouraged in my
refusal to see the thing. When it came out I closely studied
the analyses produced by many people in the net. Also one of
my best friends warned me that though he thought the movie
"useful" that I would be traumatized and haunted by it. It
seems to me that desiring to see such things is voyeuristic.
If God saw fit to draw a veil of darkness over the land for
the three worst hours of the ordeal, so that men could not
see, who are we to seek to pierce this darkness to gawp at
what transacted between the Father and The Son at that time.
To be honest I never forgave
Gibson his botchup of history as he did in Braveheart, so I
have not seen any of his since, and determine to stay that way
I rejected C S Lewis some years
ago.
I read the Narnia stories
nearly thirty years ago, so had forgotten some of the
heretical details that appears in them, but I did think it
awfully odd that when tempted to deny the presence of an
oveworld when underground in "The Silver Chair" Puddleglum may
say to the tempter "you may very well be right, but it is
better to believe in him than you even if he is not real".
Though I paraphrase from memory I think this accurate. I wrote
a piece on this called "An Atheist Peeks Out". Are you
interested in seeing it.
Of course the belief that all
good people of all religions will be saved is pure heresy. I
knew this when I read these stories as a new convert in 1978.
But what drove me to despair was his book Mere Christianity
If it is a doubtful enterprise
to find theology in fiction I think his Mere Christianity is
proof enough he knew neither his subject nor his Lord. His
advice to SHOVE THEM BACK (ie unbelieving thoughts) is both
carnal striving and as legalism, the very royal road to
apostasy as St Paul rebuked in the Galatians. And his dictum
that as children grow by pretending so do we grow spiritual by
the same, is preposterous. These two drove me to despair and
only now am I able to repent of the delusions these were.
What helped dethrone the Don
for me was in part A N Wilson's biography.
I am a keen writer and punster.
I wrote this on Lewis' given name
MEDITATION ON A FAMOUS NAME
CS is well named
He would call CLEAVE-ing to christ
That CLEAVE -ing of will from feeling
He did in fear of his own heart
Thus was he STAPLE-d to Law
With twin spikes
Of fear - which is unbelief
And self righteousness
Driven through his own soul
This leaven of pharisees,
Might be a STAPLE of many
But is no
Heavenly Food
For the GREAT - est DIVORCE
Was not that he wrote about
Rather it was that he practised,
And has enjoined upon us,
As This PILGRIM, though reborn
Has REGRESS - ed to the
Errors of his youth
Claptrap in
Puritania
His Hoof might not
Be CLOVEN
But his doctrine served
Him whose was,
For which Father of Lies
Was it who first said
In Heavenly clime
Let's Pretend?
For Tho he would be
King of his flesh
in dominination
Of repression,
He was in
Such dishonesty
No CLOVIS (whence the name LEWIS)
The frank
O Jack!
Why sought you not Jesus
earlier instead
of later
Only one Joy
might you have lost
not both,
And a GRIEF might have
Been OBSERVED
Rather than a
Despair publicized.
O what a pity
You sought
Christ-i-an -ity,
Instead of the Christ
YES,
HIM!
You have my permission to publish on your site, if you are
so minded, anything I send you as long as my author's name
is clearly appended.
yours in Christ
Steve Meikle
Christchurch
New Zealand
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