Creole<\/a>: When a pidgin grows into a fuller language, it is called a Creole. The two parent languages mix to form a pidgin. Once the pidgin becomes the native tongue of a generation, they will begin to expand the language and give it the features which most languages possess.<\/p>\nStrawn argues that most of those who consider themselves to be fluent in the Old Testament, actually only know a pidgin \u2013 they don\u2019t have the full language. This is why Christians know so little of the OT, mispronounce much of it, and can\u2019t really carry on a conversation at any depth when it comes to issues such as Holy War in the OT, violence, issues such as the belief in a worldwide flood.<\/p>\n
Signs of Morbidity:
1) New Atheism: Hitchens, Dawkins et al; These atheists do not attach the full language of the OT, but only the pidgin. The pidgin God of the OT is an easy target. New Atheists are not experts in the OT, they only speak a pidgin, so they only critique the pidgin. As Christians, we are not meant to believe in the pidginized version of the OT. What New Atheists critique is not the whole problem (and there are problems), and only a very bad bit of the OT is ever considered.<\/p>\n
2) New Marcionism: Marcion argued that the OT should be eliminated from the Bible. Many churches now literally ignore the OT, purposefully, sometimes even describing themselves as a New Testament Church, whatever that may mean to them. The extreme example of New Marcionism is the church under Nazi Germany. Nazi\u2019s were systematic eliminators of all things OT, and eventually of the OT people, the Jewish people. Evidence in our time is the popularity of New Testament only bibles.<\/p>\n
3) New Plastic Gospels \u2013 The Happyologists: He cites folks like Joel Osteen \u2013 bless his heart \u2013 whose book espouses the belief that we can live as though everyday is a Friday\u2026 not a Sunday\u2026 a Friday, the end of the work week when we just go out and have fun, blow off steam, then sleep it off the next morning. This language Osteen speaks is a Creole. It\u2019s built from the conflation of the bible and American dream.<\/p>\n
Strawn posed the question \u2013 who is more of a threat to the truth, the liar, or the BSer? The liar knows the truth, and ignores it to get what they want. The BSer doesn\u2019t care about the truth as long as they look good. Osteen is a BSer & this is much more dangerous because it has no reference to the truth. Strawn concluded (as a world-class OT scholar), the Psalmist would have no idea what Osteen is even talking about. His God is completely foreign to the God of the bible. The New Atheists can have a field day w\/Osteens speech, and they do \u2013 rightfully so.<\/p>\n
I thought this was a brilliant lecture. The analogy is really good \u2013 OT as Language, and the pidgin\/creole terms give us an incredibly helpful vocabulary with which to talk about the problem.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll do the third lecture tomorrow.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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