Comments on: Experts! Experts! http://micahtillman.com/2007/11/03/experts-experts/ Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:26:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Micah Tillman http://micahtillman.com/2007/11/03/experts-experts/#comment-538 Micah Tillman Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:39:20 +0000 http://micahtillman.com/2007/11/03/experts-experts/#comment-538 This is encouraging for me to hear! (Not the part about the doll, but about how to understand the Commandment). I couldn't remember where I first heard it expressed the way I was trying to express it, so it's nice to have an authority person who knows the original text better than I do so I can check up on it. Thanks! This is encouraging for me to hear! (Not the part about the doll, but about how to understand the Commandment). I couldn’t remember where I first heard it expressed the way I was trying to express it, so it’s nice to have an authority person who knows the original text better than I do so I can check up on it.

Thanks!

]]> By: jeffsdeepthoughts http://micahtillman.com/2007/11/03/experts-experts/#comment-537 jeffsdeepthoughts Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:40:52 +0000 http://micahtillman.com/2007/11/03/experts-experts/#comment-537 One of my heroes, Rob Bell, had some really interesting (I think) stuff to say about taking God's name in vain. He said the way we usually think of taking God's name in vain is sort-of banal... It's not a good thing, but it's not the worst way we can take his name in vain. Bell claims (and I don't have a reason to dispute it) that the Greek and Latin that usually get translated as "taking the Lord's name in vain" actually carries with it all sorts of implications around not treating God's words seriously enough. This actually jibes closer to the way we use the phrase "in vain" as applied to other things... If I said all my work was in vain, I'm basically saying that there was no reason or point to it... by this argument, taking God's name in vain is invoking Him without having a real reason to; it's playing the God-card. I guess all this is just a long-winded way of agreeing with you: it's hard to imagine how a Jesus doll sold by Wal-Mart could possibly invoke God's words in a way that God would approve of. One of my heroes, Rob Bell, had some really interesting (I think) stuff to say about taking God’s name in vain.
He said the way we usually think of taking God’s name in vain is sort-of banal… It’s not a good thing, but it’s not the worst way we can take his name in vain.
Bell claims (and I don’t have a reason to dispute it) that the Greek and Latin that usually get translated as “taking the Lord’s name in vain” actually carries with it all sorts of implications around not treating God’s words seriously enough.
This actually jibes closer to the way we use the phrase “in vain” as applied to other things… If I said all my work was in vain, I’m basically saying that there was no reason or point to it… by this argument, taking God’s name in vain is invoking Him without having a real reason to; it’s playing the God-card.
I guess all this is just a long-winded way of agreeing with you: it’s hard to imagine how a Jesus doll sold by Wal-Mart could possibly invoke God’s words in a way that God would approve of.

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