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Date: 14 October 2010 21:00:13
Sometimes when I’m discussing different things with friends that they really aren’t on my wave length. This week I was catching up with some friends, and we ended up talking about theories of atonement and penal substitution, (ok we are all current or ex bible college students!) I commented that penal substitution doesn’t work in my world. To which the general answer was it’s not about your world, it’s about looking at the arguments for and against. Reflecting on this it feels like they were going well obviously the answer is blue and white, because they are asking the question what colour is the Scotland flag. While this is true, I’m asking the question what is 2 + 2. Sometimes it feels like I should be changing the questions I’m asking but that wouldn’t be my questions I would be trying to force myself in to a mould in which I just don’t fit. These friends love me anyway so that is fine, but I realise how often I’m asking completely different questions to others, then wonder why there answers don’t work for me. I need to learn to understand others questions as well as answers, but also to accept that being me means asking the different questions, and looking for the different answers and that is fine.