[Vision2020] Fantasy vs. Reality Fourth Installment

[Ralph Nielsen]

If I were God, I would be so disgusted with this self-serving, self- 
righteous, and over-long petition of hypocrisy and hate that I would  
smite the author with a curse (Malachi 4:6, the last verse in the Old  
Testament).

Ralph



[Vision2020] Fantasy vs. Reality Fourth Installment

News of Christ Cult news.of.christ.cult at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 10:35:46 PST 2007

Fantasy:
  http://www.dougwils.com/index.asp? 
Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=3162
  <http://www.dougwils.com/index.asp? 
Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=3162>

*A Prayer of Imprecation*
*Topic: *Liturgical Notes [Douglas Wilson]

One of the easiest things in the world to misunderstand (and  
therefore to
misrepresent) is the biblical pattern of imprecatory prayer. It is  
very easy
to interpret the practice as some kind of primitive voodoo doll custom,
practiced only by the petty and vindictive. But for those who are  
open to a
very fine treatment of the subject, I would recommend John Day's  
book, *Crying
for Justice<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_/102-0677873-7898543? 
url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Crying+for 
+Justice&Go.x=7&Go.y=13&Go=Go>

*. Over the last few years, the fact that we have prayed this way has  
been
seized on by some of our adversaries as proof-positive that we  
obviously are
crazed fundamentalists. But fundamentalism is the practice of  
absolutizing
bits and pieces of Scripture. Liberalism is the absolutizing of other
portions. To their credit, the fundamentalists at least knew that the  
death
of Christ on the cross was more important than than Pharaoh offered the
Israelites full employment benefits, but the fundamentalist vision is  
still
truncated for all that. But what happens when we submissively come to  
*tota
et sola Scriptura*? Imprecation is part of it. Below is a sample  
prayer of
imprecation, so those who are wondering if a biblical Christian could  
ever
pray this way can read through one and see for themselves. But I  
think that
the real question needs to be presented to those Christians who never  
have
occasion to pray this way.

Father of Jesus Christ, our gracious God, we cry out to You in a time of
trouble. Our adversaries come at us with lies, lies that they delight to
tell, fluent lies, as their father tells them, in their native language.

[rest of Doug's bile snipped]