Circles & Rectangles Don't Matter

I thought a visual demonstration of Romans 14:1 was well overdue. Please do not misunderstand from this that I think all competing doctrines are equally valid. Also...do not use the comment section as a forum to argue about your competing doctrines. Rather, take the words of Paul and the illustration shown here and apply them to your ministry and subsequent behavior.

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[elploky]

That makes every position in face of god incomplete, and all together complementary. So god is one and he is many, the Bible is his word and any other holy book too, Jesus was and wasn't the messiah, god exists and doesn't exist.

If you don't have any insight into god's dimension, you can not know the truth about god at any extent or distinguish between true and false. All we have are guesses.

All notions about god are wrong if seen alone. Just as a cylinder is neither a circle nor rectangle.

[TheEdge012]

That is NOT what this video is meant to illustrate at all. This is primarily meant to challenge fellow Christians on what Paul calls disputable matters.

[elploky]

@TheEdge012 I agree on what you are saying when it comes to divisiveness. So the way I see it, it follows from your argument that none is right about it. So to worship a 2D shape in a 3D+ world is wrong, you are worshiping something else: a circle/square, and not the cylinder. So making moral claims on that belief (2D) is divisive and it is wrong in a 3D+ world. I agree.

But do we mix all shapes? Some? Which ones? How we do it? How do we know we got it right? etc

[TheEdge012]

It doesn't follow from my argument that none are right. It follows that we should not be so dogmatic in areas where Scripture isn't perfectly clear. I give a couple of examples in the video like Calvinism Vs. Arminianism and Pre or Post Trib rapture.

[elploky]

@TheEdge012 I could not find those videos in your channel.

It does. That is why we should not be dogmatic, because we think we know but we know we couldn't know: other interpretations ought to be considered. A cylinder is not a circle; it is not a matter of discussion. There are irreconcilable discrepancies over religious views, I thought that was your point, how all could be true. But now I think what you meant was about the gray areas of your particular view. Why exclude the other options?

[TheEdge012]

Those were not separate videos but rather admissions in this video (if memory serves me) of examples as to some of the Christian issues that we tend to dogmatically defend, using Scripture. Instead of taking Paul's advice we tend to argue over matters that don't actually deserve the focus and passion we give to them.

If I understand the parting question...you are asking why not let the video also be a lesson on all things religious? If not, please clarify and I will try to answer.

[elploky]

@TheEdge012 Yes, that is what I mean.

I am sorry I have a very bad memory, I watched it again. I share your outlook and I find your argument very interesting, but I do find some problems in it that can be tricky to surpass.

[elploky]

@TheEdge012 Superficially it makes your point, but dimensions is a bad choice.

A-God is 1D: we know him for what he is, a line.

B-God is 2D: we can know him for what he is, circle or rectangle.

C-God is 3D+: you suggest a square circle, not a cylinder as we (2D) would not know what a cylinder could be like. I remind you can not measure or define god unlike geometrical figures, and we do not even know which shapes to combine or how.

D-He is not a higher, equal nor lower dimensional being.

[TheEdge012]

Thanks!

[AlyssaLovesLife]

This is what I was thinking about today. Many try to explain God and their thoughts on Doctrine and Beliefs along the lines of or with the support of Human Philosophies and Logic. But isn't our God much much bigger than that! :D

Love this video.