tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post5106353380062050655..comments2024-03-06T11:28:56.480-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : This Gets My Blood Pressure Up!Alice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-53060293344727391492010-06-01T09:06:03.324-07:002010-06-01T09:06:03.324-07:00Some Christians are so removed from Church History...Some Christians are so removed from Church History and Holy Tradition that they are unable to connect the dots. Consider how the Blessed Theotokos holds no place in the thoughts of such people. Yet in her God fulfilled the first and overarching promise of Scripture - Gen. 3:15 - concerning the Son of God.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-47334325157086563242010-06-01T07:30:42.658-07:002010-06-01T07:30:42.658-07:00Even more ironic is this experience: We once did a...Even more ironic is this experience: We once did a homeschool COOP with a varied group of Protestant and Evangelicals. I taught literature, English, writing - basic language arts - and I tried to coordinate my curriculum with the history teacher's. No problem. But, when history hit the time of persecution of the early Church, I assigned a book, written long ago by an Anglican Clergyman, called the "Exiles of the Cebenna". On it's cover was a photo of the very old mosaic of "Christ the Good Shepherd" found in Ravenna. Several of the parents were TOTALLY horrified. How did I dare give them something which depicted Christ? Idol worshipper! Yet, this same image is in almost every art textbook known to Western civilization. Nonetheless, one parent had his student tear off the cover. Others refused to let their students read the material at all. Yet, all the time, the cover of one of their (Christian published) history books had the image of Janus, the pagan god who looks both ways in time, as its cover. But, that was ok. Sometimes it's hard to understand how people think. Oh, then the best part of all - we actually met in the "tear off the cover" person's church space - and in the youngest children's Sunday school room there were, hanging on the walls, these really bad, bad, sappy B&W line drawings of Jesus teaching the children... That was a blood pressure moment for me, I confess.Matushka Elizabethhttp://www.stgeorgepantry.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-85576804033547838032010-05-29T10:18:50.495-07:002010-05-29T10:18:50.495-07:00I am more and more convinced that this mindset res...I am more and more convinced that this mindset results from an abysmally low view of common grace. These folks disparage pagan thinkers so casually, as if being an evangelical is the only ticket to ensuring that any true statements are capable of proceeding out of one's mouth.Mairnéalachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-25309238511964600032010-05-29T07:13:01.732-07:002010-05-29T07:13:01.732-07:00Right on! Take several very deep breaths, but kee...Right on! Take several very deep breaths, but keep on writing! This whole "young earth vs. old earth" issue is so pervasive in various circles, especially among non-Orthodox homeschoolers. Thank you for speaking from a much more meaningfully real perspective!Matushka Elizabethhttp://www.stgeorgepantry.orgnoreply@blogger.com