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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dr. Gier Writes:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Interestingly, this was
not the position of Greg Dickison in his articles "Your Eye Should not
Pity" and "Know Where to Draw the Line" (Credena Agenda, vol. 3,
nos. 9, 11). As far as I know, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City>
has not disputed this article, but mysteriously this entire volume has
disappeared from the Credenda archives. Dickison offers no flexibility or
grace for the Christian magistrate, who, "when we have it our way,"
will enforce Old Testament law without exception, for to pity the sinner is
itself a sin.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So when Wilson's
Christianity hits the pagan and unreconstructed Christian beach chairs like a
tsunami (it's right there in "My Town") and when only propertied
Christian males will be voting (also in "My Town"), I am certain that
Dickison will be appointed the first Christian magistrate and their eyes will
not pity.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Me:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thank you for pointing this out Dr. Gier. I have been following
this issue myself, curious as to how <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City>
would respond to growing pressure. I think it is important to remember the
story line here, since one can slip back into a position in the same way they
slipped out of it. I think there has been some serious back and forth on
this, which included a re-endorsement of a standard theonomic interpretation on
his Blog this last fall. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City>
had been backing away from this, noting a teleological nature of law, but then
when it rhetorically suited him in a different context, this was quickly
abandoned. There is a combination of problems revealed here, which one
can find elsewhere many times over: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Unwillingness to
engage in argumentative discourse in which you can learn or be corrected;
my efforts have been fruitless.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Expound newly formed
ideas authoritatively as if they have been the doctrines of our tradition
for many years,<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>And engage in daily
intellectual dishonesty (rhetorical power trumps sincere truth
seeking). <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Combine these three practices, and I think you get the correct rhetorical
formula. Because of this, I would be surprised that <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> actually ‘corrected’
recent teaching; could someone provide the text or a link to this public
statement? Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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