Hey folks! Well, I spent another Saturday evening at Brotherly Love Ministries. I took some photos (and then had some fun with photoshop!). It's really a neat project, and even though I have some pretty sharply divergent theological views as the people there, I really, really like them. They have what I term a "hyper-literal" way of translating the Bible, but in a way, their views are much more tolerant and loving than other extremely conservative Christians. Still, some of the things they believe are, well, pretty unbelievable. For one, they only use the King James. When the Book of Revelation says the gates of heaven are wrought from a single pearl, that means either it's a really big pearl, or we're gonna be really small when we get to heaven, but whatever the case, those folks who believe that the gates are made from lots of pearls are wrong, 'cause that ain't what the Bible says. It's one pearl, and that's that! And when it says Jonah was swallowed by a whale, that means a whale, not a "jewfish" or whatever...I don't even know what they're talking about there. Hey, for what it's worth, it was the most interesting sermon I've heard in years.
Still, I'm already learning to set my own prejudices and snobbishness aside. I might think that their beliefs are bizarre compared to my own, but their beliefs are based on a rich and complicated life that I can't begin to yet understand. Besides, once you believe that somebody actually turned water into wine and rose from the dead, isn't it all pretty much fair game after that?
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